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Jalpresh Tailor
Jalpresh@gmail.com
IBM Certified Adv Developer, Administrator
HTTP://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop

Jalpresh Tailor (JT)
• Senior Software Developer
• Domino Administrator
• 12 Years experience
• Email: jalpresh@gmail.com
• Blog: http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop

The Plan: 10 Tips in 60 Minutes
• Quick Tips
• Case Scenarios
• Openntf projects
• Walkthrough

The Audience
• Superstar Admin - Beginner Developer
• Leet Developer - Noob Admin
• Every one nowadays is expected to Do more With Less

The Goal
• To ensure no one falls asleep
• To ensure that you learn something new
• To hear some one say OMG I didn’t know you could do that

How Does This effect your Developer

Case Scenario 1:
You are trouble shooting some admin issues and you get
asked if you can take a look at a button that’s not working. Its
in Formula Language … Notes has no Formula Debugger
tool

What can you do?

PS: If your are an Admin and you think Formula Language is
how to signal your drink to the bartender at Lotusphere when
you lose your hearing from bad karaoke, I suggest you back
away from this issue!!

Case Scenario 1:
You are trouble shooting some admin issues and you get
asked if you can take a look at a button that’s not working. Its
in Formula Language … Notes has no Formula Debugger
tool
What can you do?

Quick and easy way to Debug formula Language.
• Paste your code in the subject of an email
• Press Shift and F9

Really powerful for DBLookups, Dates or when playing with
strings

Case Scenario 2:
You are asked to trouble shoot or update some LotusScript
code and are having trouble
• Understanding the code
• Understanding how big the job is
• Having trouble explaining why it can’t be done, or the work
involved.

And you have
• No comments
• No documentation
• No one knows how it works, but they all want the changes to
be done in 5 minutes

Give Visustin a try. Just paste your lotus code and you will get
an instant flow chart of your code.

This makes it easy to
• Understand the code
• Understand how big the job is
• Explain why it can’t be done, or the work involved.

Don’t try to show lotusScript code to someone and expect them
to understand what is involved.
• Everyone can understand a Flow chart

Give Visustin a try. Just paste your lotus code and you will
get an instant flow chart of your code.
Saves tons of time when trying to understand someones code

If you are not using Stampall.. You should

As a developer we are always playing with code that looks like this.

This can be replaced with one StampAll command.
You don’t even need to save and its much faster!!

Tip From John Jardin

StampAll Gotchas
Do not use two StampAll call it will take double the time
Call NotesDocumentCollection.StampAll( “Status”, “Submitted” )
Call NotesDocumentCollection.StampAll( “Dept”, “Accounting” )

Instead use StampAllMulti

Tip From John Jardin

Using the Notes Identifier:
• It is found on in the 5th tab of the document properties
• According to Help document it Unique ID string that
identifies the document.

Lets take a detail look at the syntax
Notes://Server/85256F3A00672CF9/38D46BF5E8F08834852564B
500129B2C/9EC60319B1AC9891852577C80057DA5C

Notes://server/path/db.nsf/viewName/UNID – opens doc
Notes://server/path/db.nsf – opens default view
The above line can be rewritten as follows
Notes://Server/INT/Mail/Jtailor.NSF/Inbox/9EC60319B1AC989
1852577C80057DA5C
Notes://Server/INT%2FMail%2FJtailor.NSF/Inbox/9EC60319B1A
C9891852577C80057DA5C
*when setting the path you can use %2F instead of a slash

Lets start getting a little fancy

Open any view
Notes://Server/INT/Mail/Jtailor.NSF/($sent)?openview
Open a form
Notes://Server/INT/Mail/Jtailor.NSF/memo?openform
Open from local replica, if not found uses server
Notes:///ReplicaID …
Notes:///85256F3A00672CF9

So the Notes Identifier is the same as a doc Link?
NO!!!!!!!

Since Notes 6 a URL that uses Notes:// as a protocol can be
used in notes or any other application!!
As long as you have access to it, via the ACL.

Since Notes 6 a URL that uses Notes:// as a protocol can be
used in notes or any other application!!
3rd Party Tools, CRM, ERP, Excel, Web Browsers...

Creating Notes Shortcuts
You can create notes short cuts that will function just like
windows shortcuts except that they will open Notes
Documents or Databases

Just pick a document or Database and copy as Link

Now paste in Notepad and save with the extension NDL

Case Scenario 3:
• You are asked to trouble shoot some Domino issues. You
are informed that no one has made any changes to the
server, but you find this hard to believe.
• Recent changes are causing issues, but after several
attempts we are unable to undo

All this info is located in IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT folder on
the Domino server
• serverdoc_servername_date@time.dxl (server documents)
• configspecific_servername_date@time.dxl (configuration
docs)

How to easily read these files, Give Lotus Notes Diagnostic Utility a try
• Download and install from
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24019151
Now you can Browse to IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT folder right click the
document you want to review and select LND => Automatic Process

This will add the Document to your LND Database where you can
review it and add more docs to compare. Each doc is date
stamped with the last save.

Case Scenario 4:
A customer asks for some advanced reporting and graphing tools
for Notes.
Your options are;
• You could star coding for days
• You can download NotesReconn from openntf and be done in
5 min.

NotesReconn
Is a user customizable tool that can produce advance charts in
Flash and excel, and generate excel reports.

Project: Notes Reconn (Managed by Johnny Jiang, David
Jeyachandran, James Harris)
http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Notes
%20Reconn

Case Scenario 5:
How to Deal with large Attachments.

With fileSendr you upload your big attachments to the fileSendr
web interface and then use it to send an email message to your
recipient that contains a link to download the file.

The link is valid for a set number of days and after that the file is
removed from the system.

Project FileSendr
By Declan Lynch
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=ope
nDocument&name=fileSendr

Project FileSendr
By Declan Lynch
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=
openDocument&name=fileSendr

• This saves disk, message not stored in a users sent box.
• No need to change any rules to push this mail out.
• Not having to explain the wonders of a Zip utility

Project FileSendr
By Declan Lynch
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=
openDocument&name=fileSendr

Case Scenario 6:
The auditors have arrived and need to know exactly who has
access to what on your notes environment immediately.
And the Admins are already busy dealing with more important
issues.

Comic taken from Xkcd.com

Quick, easy, fast and simple way to find out who can do what to
your databases. Absolute life saver.

Quick, easy, fast and simple way to find out who can do what to your
databases. Absolute life saver.

• Developed by IBM
• Was available in the IBM sandbox
• Now available at
http://www. bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop/resource/ACLAuditTool.nsf
http://www.bananahome.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf

Ever wanted to Analyze an INI file, make sure there are no strange
settings , obsolete settings. Here are a few great tools just for this.
• Domino Configuration Tuner (Used for sever INIs)
• Notes.INI Analyzer (Used for Clients and Servers)
http://www.lntoolbox.com/en/notesinianalyzer.html

Want to maintain consistent settings in your users Lotus Notes client?
Or push a few custom INI settings down to some or all users?
Did you know you could do this VIA Policy?

Official How To:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21391284

Pushing notes.ini settings
How to push a notes.ini variable and value pair to a Notes user;
1. Open the Domino Directory
2. Click the People & Groups tab and open the Settings view.
3. Click Add Settings, open the Desktop Settings dialog, and click the
Custom Settings tab. (Finding this section is the hardest part)
4. Click Notes.ini.

5. Click Edit List to open a panel that enables you to create a notes.ini
variable name and value pair.
6. In the Item field, specify a notes.ini variable name.
7. In the Value field, specify the NOTES.INI value to associate with the
variable name.
8. Click Add/Modify Value.
9. Enable the Enforce option to push the value pair to overwrite any other
previously set value for the named setting.
10. Click OK and Save & Exit.

Super quick intro on Xpages Mobile Control from the Extension Library
Mobilize a database in 10 Steps with
• 0 Lines of code
• Type 7 words, most of them are labels
• Click to select
• Drag and drop

Super quick intro on Xpages Mobile Control from the Extension Library
Mobilize an App in 10 Steps

Prerequisites
– 8.5.3 + Upgrade Pack 1
Or
– Download Ext Library from Openntf

Link explaining how to install the Prerequisites

http://www-
10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Installing_and_administering_the_XP
ages_Extension_Library_ddxl853

Mobilize a Database in 10 Steps
Step 1: Create a DB and Enable the Ext. Library in the Application
Properties

Step 2: Set the Mobile Prefix

Step 3: Create a new Xpage make sure to use the mobile prefix

Step 4: On the New Xpage drop the Single Page Application control from
the Mobile Palette

Step 5: On the Single Page Application control drop the Mobile Page on
the Green Dot

Drop the Mobil Page on the Green dot

Here the Final result

Step 6: The Single Page Application control needs to have the
SelectedPageName set and use the same value for the PageName in the
Mobile Page

Step 7: On the Mobile Page control drop the Page Heading on the Green
Dot

Drop the Page Heading on the Green dot

Here the Final result

Step 8: Add a Label to the Page Heading you just created, save and
preview.

Step 9: On the Mobile Page control drop the Data View
Select the Notes View you want to use

Drop the Data View here

Step 9: Here is what your results should look like.

Step 10: Add a summaryColumn and a viewExtraColumn with the
columns you want to display from the selected Notes View and save

The Results!!!
Apple / Blackberry Android

The Good
Automatically display the correct theme for the device
The Bad
The Blackberrys have a lag and refresh issue
I am told that BB with newer OS may work fine, I have only tested with OS 6
The Ugly
The only solution with older blackberrys is to use traditional Xpages thus
making it not as pretty

Super quick intro to get an Xpages app on an older OS Blackberry

Mobilize a database in 5 Steps with
• 0 Lines of code
• Type 3 words
• Click to select
• Drag and drop

Step 1
• Create a new Xpage, call it BBView
• Add a View Controller
• Pick your database, and your view,
• Select your fields and click OK

Step 2
• You should see your selected fields
• Select it and click all properties/Data and set rows to 8, and preview it.

Step 3
• Create a new Xpage, call it BBDoc
• Go to the Data Tab, set Data Source
to Define Data Source
• Set Data source to Domino Document
• Chose Other, pick your database,
your Form and click OK.

Step 4
• In the data tab click the little button so it is not X out
• Select the fields you want and drag them to the Xpage
• Set the fields to Computed

Step 5
• Open your BBView xpage again High light the view and in properties/view
set at runtime, open… to BBDoc
• Select a column and in properties Display check off show values in the
column as links

That’s it!!!
Your all Done

Preview on a Blackberry

Preview in a browser

The Good
Xpages works well on a Blackberry with older OS.
Blackberry has a secured permanent connection to your bes which means
you can access all your notes servers which sit behind your firewall with
out a vpn solution
The Bad
The Blackberrys do not handle editing Rich Text Fields well. It may be
easier to create a temp text field and use it to update the Rich Text
Field.
The Ugly
Ext Library Mobile Controls is the best solution but do you want to support 2
different mobile solutions?
Currently in my environment: 100 OS 6 vs 1 OS 7

The Goal
• To ensure no one falls asleep
• To ensure that you learn something new
• To hear some one say OMG I didn’t know you could do that

Jalpresh Tailor
Jalpresh@gmail.com
IBM Certified Adv Developer, Administrator
HTTP://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop

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