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More about Domino log files
DominoPower Magazine - January 2010
In this article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard looks deeper into what causes log databases to get large. He also looks at some of the information that's recorded in the log,nsf, and then adds some more ideas about how you can deal with it.
Why your log.nsf might not be purging properly
DominoPower Magazine - December 2009
A reader wants to know if his 11gb log.nsf file is too big. It is. We explore how to make sure log file purging works properly.
A faster way to repair corrupted server files
DominoPower Magazine - November 2009
Reader Chloe tells us her Domino server keeps crashing and it takes too long to rebuild a corrupted index.
Making Domino work with IIS
DominoPower Magazine - November 2009
A reader tells us her boss has decided to do the IT equivalent of crossing the beams. He wants to make Domino work with IIS. Worse, he wants HER to make Domino work with IIS. She asks if this even possible and whether it cause permanent damage to the fabric of the universe (or her career)?
It's a wacky, wiki, wonderful world with Lotus wikis
DominoPower Magazine - November 2009
While Lotus has always had helpful online resources, sometimes you really need to dig around to find the good stuff. I was talking to a developer the other day, a guy who'd been involved with Lotus products for years, and when I mentioned how helpful the Lotus wikis are, he looked at me, turned his head sideways, and asked, "Lotus has wikis?"
Mail doesn't work right after removing Alloy from the Domino server
DominoPower Magazine - September 2009
Our reader asks (we'll call her Joy) how to undo her Alloy installation.
How recreate a missing ID file without going completely crazy
DominoPower Magazine - July 2009
This week, DominoPower editor-in-chief David Gewirtz channels Sigmund Freud as he explains how to recreate a Notes ID file. All we can say is we're sorry. Somehow the boss has managed to mix completely inane with incredibly useful. It's a gift. It scares us, but it's a gift.
When the debugger won't debug hidden code that isn't hidden
DominoPower Magazine - June 2009
Looking carefully at your workspace, you notice a strange little message in the status area: "Debug request ignored. Source code hidden." You're in Notes and you've enabled the debugger. Now, you attempt to debug a form or view action. It looks like your code executes, but the debugger is nowhere to be found.
What to do if the LotusScript debugger won't single-step over code
DominoPower Magazine - June 2009
If you've been attempting to debug LotusScript, particularly a piece of LotusScript with shared fields, you may have noticed that the Notes debugger itself needs a little debugging.
Troubleshooting an OpenSuse Notes install
DominoPower Magazine - May 2009
The Notes installation went smoothly, lulling Nancy into thinking everything was fine. She started up the client, answered the configuration questions, and watched it open. Then, instead of seeing a Getting Started page with information on Notes, she saw an ugly grey box. Want to know how to make the ugliness go away? You'll have to read the article.
How hide-whens in Rich Text can ruin your whole day (and what to do about it)
DominoPower Magazine - April 2009
The fundamental thing to understand is that, unlike any other sort of Notes field, the data in Rich Text field can contain its own hide-whens, because that's one of the functions of Rich Text. This behavior can reach out and bite you. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you avoid getting stung by the hide-when behavior of Rich Text.
Using the Notes Client with Gmail
DominoPower Magazine - March 2009
Since we explored how Notes with Hotmail seemed to be an unworkable idea, we decided we'd take on Gmail and see if it would be any more cooperative. It was, and in this article, Nancy Hand shows you the ins and outs of getting incoming and outgoing mail to work between Notes and Gmail. It's another one of her incredibly helpful reads.
Using the Notes client with Hotmail (or not)
DominoPower Magazine - January 2009
A reader recently asked if he could use Notes as a POP client to get messages from his Hotmail account. Being curious, Nancy Hand set up a new Hotmail account. For all the details on what worked (not much) and what didn't (pretty much everything), you'll have to read the full article.
Is English-only a viable mail management strategy?
DominoPower Magazine - December 2008
In this important article, Contributing Editor Nancy Hand discusses the question of whether it's a good policy to filter non-English email if your company does business internationally.
Little known traps about Lotus Notes fields
DominoPower Magazine - December 2008
Fields would seem to be simple things, places to put data items. But like much else in Notes, they're traps for the unwary. They're traps for more experienced developers too, just when you're looking somewhere else. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you avoid those traps.
Willy and Wally install a SAN
DominoPower Magazine - September 2008
Hardware engineers Willy and Wally decided to move eight Notes and Domino servers to SANs. To Nancy Hand, just the idea of putting eight servers on one set of disks made her queazy. Read on to find out what happened.
More archive fun
DominoPower Magazine - August 2008
Jim is the kind of user we love to hate. He doesn't want the easy answers but won't listen to the full explanation either. So, when he called the help desk about a problem with one of his archives, there was the usual fight over whose turn it was to take his call.
Getting the Domino server time with @Now
DominoPower Magazine - July 2008
For a few years now, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has been supporting a Notes application for a customer, and one of the pieces of functionality he wanted in the application for quite some time was to be able to record server, rather than client, clock times when users performed various actions. Even though there are all sorts of version compatibility issues, Mick figured out how to do it. This article explains it all.
Cache strategies with @Dblookup, and more
DominoPower Magazine - July 2008
One of the most common examples of less-than-perfect programming Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has seen in Notes is the use of @DBLookup or @DBColumn with no thought given to the caching of data -- every call specified with NoCache, because the developer wanted to be sure that data was freshly looked up. In this article, he discusses the right way to do it.
Recursion: the good, the bad, and the alternatives
DominoPower Magazine - June 2008
Sometime back, we looked at recursion as a way to solve some problems not easily solved in other ways. Unfortunately LotusScript recursion does have its limitations and in this article Ian Murray discusses how to discover what those limitations mean for you and your code, and how you can avoid them.
Managing your From address(es) in Notes
DominoPower Magazine - May 2008
In this helpful article, Doug Robinson has put together an article on managing the "from" address of email messages, both to force an Internet address, but also to easily send from multiple email addresses through creating multiple location docs.
Notes calendar abuses and misuses
DominoPower Magazine - April 2008
Most of Nancy Hand's really, really long calls involve calendaring. For whatever reason, people think the Notes calendar should do everything their secretary can, with the possible exception of making coffee.
Installing Notes 8 the hard way
DominoPower Magazine - March 2008
On a whim, Nancy Hand decided to try Notes 8 at home. She didn't read the documentation before starting installation. If she had, she says, she would have seen the problem before starting.
Fun with hidden code
DominoPower Magazine - March 2008
What happens when you recompile all the LotusScript and there's a LotusScript error -- but no LotusScript? This is what Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard encountered. Read his fascinating tale of discovery and learn from his experience in the secret world of hidden code.
Numeric vs. text fields in application design
DominoPower Magazine - November 2007
When designing applications, consider carefully whether the value you are keeping really is a number that you will use in arithmetic calculations, or whether it is just a text string that contains numeric characters. You won't regret those few extra moments in your application design process when you see the extra robustness of the application and its greater resilience to change. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you understand where you could go wrong, even if you do it by the numbers.
Faking Notes profile names
DominoPower Magazine - November 2007
Under Notes 5.x it was easy to enter a fake name into a Profile document; you simply typed in something and saved it. The client complained, but it still accepted non-hierarchical names like "Annalee's Astounding Addenda" or "Expense Reporting Dept". But, in Notes 6.x and 7.x, you can't type in the field. You have to select a name from an address book. Nancy Hand discusses how to get around this limitation.
Troubles with views
DominoPower Magazine - October 2007
Here's a short piece with some tips on using Notes views programmatically from LotusScript. And it may be a first for DominoPower: it was written entirely with the Notes 8 document editor.
The To Dos that wouldn't go away
DominoPower Magazine - August 2007
Our favorite Contributing Editor had an interesting problem. One of her users couldn't delete Notes To Dos. Seems simple, right? Well, it turns out the answer was, indeed, simple. Finding the answer wasn't so much.
The joys of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i vs. Notes
DominoPower Magazine - March 2007
In this hands-on article, Contributing Editor Nancy Hand details the challenges she had getting McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i to work in a Notes environment.
Daylight Savings Time changes and Lotus products
DominoPower Magazine - February 2007
We interrupt our regular programming for a special announcement. As you know, we've been analyzing the Lotusphere 2007 announcements in substantial depth, and we've got a lot more analysis to come. However, Daylight Savings Time has been moved forward three weeks, to March 11. As you might imagine, this has all sorts of implications. Howard Greenberg of The Learning Continuum Company, a longtime friend of the magazine, has been studying this issue in some depth. Read this article to learn what you can do to prepare.
New Year's Resolutions for Lotus professionals
DominoPower Magazine - January 2007
New Year's resolutions. We all make and, generally, break them each year. But, since it's yet another new year, I resolve to try again. In this delightful article, Contributing Nancy Hand gives us her ten favorite New Year's resolutions.
An obscure utility saves the day
DominoPower Magazine - December 2006
What happens when adding new disks to a SAN causes pandemonium to a Domino server? In Contributing Editor Nancy Hand's case, she found an obscure little utility that managed to save the day.
How to retrieve POP mail from a non-Domino server
DominoPower Magazine - December 2006
Contributing Editor Nancy Hand is back with another story from the support trenches. This time,she's retrieving POP mail from a non-Domino server.
Before you reinstall the Notes client, try this
DominoPower Magazine - November 2006
Contributing Editor Nancy Hand is back with another story from the support trenches. This time, a user's mailfile gets all weird. Eventually, the Notes client is reinstalled. But you don't have to do that. Read Nancy's article and you'll learn how to fix Notes without reinstalling.
Upgrading the SAN
DominoPower Magazine - October 2006
Life is never dull when you're a Domino admin. Just before after she went on vacation, Nancy Hand's company installed a Storage Area Network (SAN). And life just got more interesting.
Declined, but not forgotten
DominoPower Magazine - September 2006
What happens when Roy loses Fridays? It can happen to the nicest of guys, but the reason's a bit complex. In another of Nancy Hand's popular Those Amazing Users series, we learn what went wrong and what Nancy had to do in Notes to fix the problem.
How to set Notes 7 to open in the Workspace
DominoPower Magazine - June 2006
Are you an old school Notes user? Are you someone who's used Notes since Notes 3 or Notes 4 and has grown to love the traditional Workspace? Notes has certainly improved over the releases, but one of the things I've missed most about the newer releases was the Workspace. Oh, sure, it's in there (and so's pretty much everything else). But how do you set up Notes so the Workspace loads as your default screen, just like in the good ol' days? In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz tells you how.
Spam blocking, Frank, and giggles over the cubicle wall
DominoPower Magazine - June 2006
Spam was becoming a big problem everywhere, not just at work. Some users only got one or two spam messages a day while others got dozens. People wanted a solution. This article is another in Nancy Hand's popular Those Amazing Users series and it's worth a giggle or two.
Runaway agent
DominoPower Magazine - May 2006
What happens when Phil writes an agent? Fifteen minutes later, he's used up several gigabytes of server space, Nancy Hand is on her way to the office at 4:00am, and Phil's no longer allowed to write agents. What did he do? Read the article to find out.
Why all those read email messages still show as unread red
DominoPower Magazine - April 2006
When all of the messages in a user's mailfile had suddenly turned red, intrepid Nancy Hand was called in to help. Read this article and you can find out how to keep your messages from turning red once they're read. It'll help you avoid getting a red face.
Configuring Notes 7 as a POP3 client, step-by-step
DominoPower Magazine - March 2006
This week, we continue our Notes 7 intro month with an article about how to configure the Notes 7 client as a POP3 email client.
A step-by-step guide to installing the Notes 7.0 client
DominoPower Magazine - March 2006
A few years ago, we ran an article about installing the Notes 6 client. We honestly didn't expect it to be particularly popular, because most of our readers were pretty high-level IT folks. But, suprisingly, we got a relatively large number of "thank you" letters about the article. Apparently, our readers were using the article to save time. It turns out they were sending the article's URL to their users and telling their users to follow the steps, rather than making a "house call" for each new Notes install. So, now that Notes 7 is here, it's time to update the article for the new release.
How to destroy a hard drive (on purpose)
DominoPower Magazine - March 2006
In this very special DominoPower article, we destroy hard drives, save drive motors, build wind chimes, and discover the power of rare earth magnets. It doesn't get more interesting than this!
Meeting 15,000 new friends through the power of the cc field
DominoPower Magazine - March 2006
What happens when a new exec sends 15,000 emails to "All Domino users" in the company? He gets to meet a lot of new people. In this fun story by Nancy Hand, we learn the admin's side of the story.
The Notes calendar: scheduling to infinity and beyond!
DominoPower Magazine - February 2006
And, as admistrator for 3,000 Notes 6.5 users, Nancy Hand is frequently amazed by what her users can pull off. One such user managed to lose a meeting for next Tuesday, but schedule appointments all the way out to 4004. Just what did Nancy do to clean this mess up? You'll have to read this article to find out.
Give your Domino views life with DHTML
DominoPower Magazine - October 2005
Have you ever wanted to be able to expand and collapse documents in a Notes view from a browser but the view's contents are being treated as HTML and are not being translated by the Domino engine itself? In this article, Colin Neale shows you how you can achieve this with a very simple piece of JavaScript that manipulates the HTML elements on your Web page.
Fixing HTML display problems in the Notes 6 client
DominoPower Magazine - September 2005
If you're having a problem with HTML display in your Notes 6 client, this article has some great tips that'll help you resolve the problem once and for all.
Getting a handle on LotusScript error handling
DominoPower Magazine - April 2005
One part of Domino development that's often overlooked is error handling. While errors may be caught, many developers may not understand the nature of the error. Contributing Editor Tony Patton brings you a few tips and hints on how to make that debugging go a little smoother.
Storing text in LotusScript
DominoPower Magazine - March 2005
There are many times when Contributing Editor Tony Patton needs to store large amounts of text, usually multiple lines, in LotusScript code. In this DominoPower Tip, he shows us how to store large amounts of text using LotusScript.
Four free power tools for your toolbox.
DominoPower Magazine - January 2005
If you're doing any sort of serious Web development, before too long you're going to hit problems in the area of browser and Web server interaction. If you want to track down those pesky problems and be hero for a day, you'll need a big, shiny, red toolbox with a set of power tools that allow you to peer deep into the internals and see precisely what's going on. Author Andrew Stuart shows us what tools he keeps in his toolbox.
A simple way of commenting if/else follow-up
DominoPower Magazine - January 2005
Erwin van Hunen's article "A simple way of commenting if/else for better understanding" in the August issue of DominoPower Magazine has generated quite a bit of feedback. This time around, we have a piece sent in by Joshua B. Jore, a Domino developer for Imation Corporation, regarding guard statements.
Using an Early Exit strategy to make your LotusScript functions more readable
DominoPower Magazine - January 2005
In the August issue of DominoPower, Erwin van Hunen covered the of commenting the end of "if" to "end if" blocks with a comment referring to the conditions of the "if" statement. In this follow-up piece, Neale Upstone tells us how he uses an "Early Exit" strategy to make his LotusScript functions more readable.
Some quick tips to reduce internationalization nightmares
DominoPower Magazine - September 2004
Ever wonder how to make sure your server can service customers worldwide? There are a couple of easy tips that might make your life substantially easier. Read this helpful article by Douglas Robinson and you'll stand a better chance of keeping international relations calm and happy.
A simple way of commenting if/else for better understanding
DominoPower Magazine - August 2004
When you code in LotusScript or maybe even Java, I am sure you use a lot of 'if then else' statements. The problem with nesting these statements that it is really easy to loose track of which 'end if' belongs to which 'if'.
A quick way to turn debugging on and off using the ACL
DominoPower Magazine - July 2004
Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has two tips in one in this tight article: a life tip and a debugging tip. After all, isn't debugging life, and life debugging? Oh, just read the article and you'll know what we mean.
More fun with LDAP
DominoPower Magazine - July 2004
Want some more great LDAP tips? This article has some answers and a great link to even more LDAP goodness.
Holding position while switching views
DominoPower Magazine - June 2004
This week Mick Moignard describes a very simple technique to flip between views, while not losing your position in the document. This feature's been around for years, but most people don't know about it. And, it can be very, very useful.
Repeated undo in Lotus Notes
DominoPower Magazine - May 2004
Although it appears the Notes (and the other Lotus editors) only allow one level of Undo, Senior Technical Editor has discovered a very simple (nearly obvious way) undo your way back as many as 32 steps. Read this very helpful tip to find out the secret.
What to do when your LDAP port's already in use
DominoPower Magazine - May 2004
We've gotten this question a few times from readers in the past month. They've installed Domino on a Windows server, and while the Domino server itself works, they're getting a strange error about LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) not working. In this tip, we'll explain what's going on and how to implement a workaround.
How to open a secret view that shows all the user name variations on your Domino server
DominoPower Magazine - April 2004
The $Users view is a hidden, secret view that displays all the names in the Person documents, plus all of the user name variations, first names, last names, common names (CN), distinguished names (DN), short names, and soundex names. In this helpful article, we show you how to find it.
Forcing immediate indexes to actually update immediately
DominoPower Magazine - March 2004
I'm sure many of you have written applications that involve full-text indexes, and found that the index doesn't update for some time after your agent completes, even when the index frequency is set to 'Immediate'. The Admin help suggests that such indexes are updated as soon as possible after the database is closed, but in fact, "as soon as possible" is not less than 15 minutes. This tip will show you how to get your immediate indexes to update immediately
The strange case of Last Modified dates
DominoPower Magazine - March 2004
Just a couple of weeks ago, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard and a colleague came across a most bizarre "feature" of Notes. It's all to do with document Last Modified dates. They had a specific need to be able to work through documents using Last Modified dates as a processing trigger -- sounds familiar?. And they found some very peculiar and interesting things.
A Fix for folders and documents
DominoPower Magazine - November 2003
Oh, the perils of putting code in DominoPower articles! People might just try to run the stuff, and then find that it doesn't work. This week's PowerTip fixes a bug in last week's article. Read both, and you'll know what we mean.
Working with folders in mail and how to find lost documents
DominoPower Magazine - October 2003
If you've ever tried to find missing documents that should be in the inbox folder, but aren't, this helpful article by Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard will get you moving in the right direction.
What will you do when Notes crashes on you?
DominoPower Magazine - August 2003
Do you have a Notes client disaster preparedness plan? What will you do when Notes crashes on you? Unless you like restarting your computer, which is often what you have to do after a Notes client crash, you need to make sure you have a tool ready to restart Notes. You're in luck, because there are several free tools you can install which will let you recover from a Notes crash without restarting your computer.
Six quick tips for customizing the Notes 6 calendar
DominoPower Magazine - July 2003
Dan's been working with the Notes 6 calendar a lot lately and in this classic tip, shares six quick tips for customizing calendar settings. We originally ran this tip back in December, but since we regularly get calendar questions, we thought it'd be helpful to provide a quick refresher.
Using the Lotus Domino Driver for JDBC 1.5
DominoPower Magazine - June 2003
A Domino database is not a relational database, but when you're developing Java-based applications, you might want it to "act" like it's a relational database. That's where the Lotus Domino Driver for JDBC 1.5 comes in handy, and in this week's PowerTip, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco will show you why.
Getting to your workspace in Notes
DominoPower Magazine - May 2003
What do you do when you can't access your workspace because you don't have a link to it on your bookmark bar? Fear not, as Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco has a simple tip for how finding your workspace again.
Organizing your workspace icons in Notes
DominoPower Magazine - May 2003
When it comes to organizing your Notes workspace, are you a Stacker or a Non-Stacker? In this week's PowerTip, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco discusses the differences between these two camps.
Refreshing your server list in Domino Administrator
DominoPower Magazine - May 2003
If you've used Domino Administrator and have set it up to work with one or more Domino domains, you may have noticed that the list of servers for some or all of your domains can get out of date due to infrastructure changes. In this helpful article, you'll learn a simple solution.
Sorting results when searching the LDD forums or other Domino views
DominoPower Magazine - May 2003
Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco has a quick tip for those of you who search the discussion forums on the Lotus Developer Domain site.
Easily address messages in iNotes
DominoPower Magazine - April 2003
You can save time when addressing messages using iNotes. You don't always need to use the Select Addresses dialog box to search for people. This tip explains how.
Tips and tricks in LotusScript
DominoPower Magazine - February 2003
Back in the day, Contributing Editor Mick Moignard learned the art of programming writting applications in PL/I, and he's found those lessons just as valid now when writing LotusScript code for Notes as they were then. In this article, he shares some LotusScript programming tips and tricks that he's worked out over the last few years.
Five tips for ND6
DominoPower Magazine - October 2002
Over the past several months, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco has had the opportunity to acquaint himself with the Pre-release and Release Candidate versions of Notes and Domino 6. He's been so excited about some of the new features that he's written tips about them even before ND6 was officially launched on October 1. Now that the final version has been released, we thought it would be useful to compile some of the best of these tips into one handy article. So read on to learn what's new and cool and where you can go to fill your brain with the latest information about ND6.
Hints and tips and a whole lot more
DominoPower Magazine - March 2002
March's DominoPower Site of the Month shows what happens when a simple hints and tips Web site turns into something bigger.
Changing Rich Text font styles on the Web
DominoPower Magazine - August 2001
When Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco wrote a tip about applying stylesheet styles to Notes Rich Text fields on the Web and asked for feedback from you, the faithful DominoPower readers, he received a lot of responses. This led to create a second tip on the same subject, and it also helped him to solve another tricky problem. In this article, Dan has reprinted the original tips along with what he learned from your feedback and some additional commentary.
Solutions for your Preview pains
DominoPower Magazine - June 2001
Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco received an enormous response to his recent series of DominoPower Tips on using the Preview Pane Default database in R5. In this article, Dan reviews those tips and provides some additional sources of information on this extremely interesting topic.
Give a hoot, don't reboot: better ways to recover after a crash
DominoPower Magazine - March 2001
Should you zap Notes or call a medic? If you're constantly frustrated by data loss every time Notes crashes, you've got to check out this article. John Roling reviews two products designed to help you recover your work and get back on your feet faster after suffering a devastating Notes crash.
Talking about tips
DominoPower Magazine - February 2001
Having just written his 50th tip for DominoPower's weekly tip mailing, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco reflects on this rewarding experience. In this article, Dan shares his tip-writing philosophy, asks you for your feedback, and recaps five of his favorite tips.
Reusing the Web address dialog from the R5 mail template
DominoPower Magazine - December 2000
In developing Web-based applications in Domino R5, you might find it necessary to provide a means to select names of individuals or groups from a Domino directory. You could probably create a form and program the code necessary to do the job, but there's an easier way that bypasses the development effort completely. In this article, Glenn S. Orenstein shows you how it's done.
Building DHTML views with Internet Explorer
DominoPower Magazine - August 2000
When using categorized views from a browser, every time you expand or collapse a category, a request is made to the server. Matt Holthe has found a way to eliminate this round trip. In a two-part series, he'll show you how to use DHTML to create a categorized view where the categories can be expanded and collapsed on the client.
Validation formula blues
DominoPower Magazine - April 2000
Stan Dyck has a confession to make. He really hates Notes Field Validation formulas. Finally fed up with message boxes telling him to fill in this field or that field, he came up with a script library that will allow him never to use Field Validation formulas again. In this article, he is ready to share his creation and show how you too can avoid the frustration of message box overload and other Field Validation irritants.
A reusable agent to change field values on documents
DominoPower Magazine - March 2000
Have you ever wanted to create a single agent, that could be used in multiple views, that would allow a user to change the values of fields on multiple documents they'd selected in a view? Dan Velasco is happy to say that he's achieved this goal, which is what he's here to share with you today.
Domino tipoff: information delivered to your inbox
DominoPower Magazine - February 2000
This article by senior technical editor Dan Velasco is for those of you who want to make sure that you are getting the maximum amount of Domino tips and information delivered directly to your inbox.
Tips for building flexible applications
DominoPower Magazine - January 2000
As the pace of business and change increased through the '90s, the demand for faster delivery of applications also increased. Developers and other technology-related workers had a hard time keeping up with the demands of their users, often fighting to meet the many requests for simple changes and additions. In this article we'll look at ways to save yourself and your users time and pain by making your applications more flexible.
Those pesky keyword lists
DominoPower Magazine - January 2000
Ever get tired of making changes to a static keyword list? Ever have users complain about the lack of control available from the ever-expanding open keyword lists? There are alternatives that allow your users to have a controlled list of keywords, but keep you from having to go back into the code every time a list needs to be changed. This month, Brent Hawthorne shows you one way to do this and make your users happy without making yourself miserable.
Don't go postal: how to fix your mail.box
DominoPower Magazine - December 1999
There are many things that can go wrong during mail routing. Many of these problems can be fixed rather easily by using Domino and several of its tools. These techniques will resolve most mail.box corruption problems. In this incredibly helpful article, Contributing Editor Jon Johnston shows you how to fix many of the typical problems with mail routing you may encounter.
Easily inserting signatures and clip art at the cursor location
DominoPower Magazine - December 1999
Inserting signatures, footers, or photos is a standard task often needed by Lotus Notes users. This article offers one solution for inserting signatures, clipart, design elements, codes, OLE blocks, or any Rich Text item at the cursor location in a Lotus Notes session.
Using public key encryption to secure Notes documents
DominoPower Magazine - October 1999
Oh, now this is such a cool article! Contributing Editor Tom Lowery has discovered a very cool, undocumented feature that allows you to use public key encryption when saving documents in a Notes database. Public key encryption's not just for email anymore -- at least not if you read Tom's article.
Add random quotes and signatures to your Notes mail messages
DominoPower Magazine - September 1999
Although R5 allows you to add a signature file to the end of your Notes mail, it doesn't let you cycle through random signatures or quotes. And R4 doesn't even allow you to add signatures. In this valuable and fun hands-on article, Senior Technical Editor Richard Echeandia shows you how you can make a few minor changes and get your copy of Notes to do both.
Encrypting fields in Domino and Notes
DominoPower Magazine - September 1999
Encryption is a hot topic and a valuable security feature. In this important, hands-on article, Tom Lowery shows how to set up a Notes or Domino document for field-level encryption. If you want to keep your secrets secure, you'll need to read this article.
Backup methods for Domino
DominoPower Magazine - July 1999
Backing up Domino presents a set of technology issues and backup requirements similar to other database systems. The crude solution is to shut down the server, back up, and bring the server back online -- but since Domino is a Web server, 24/7 is the expectation. The most elegant solutions use sophisticated backup software capable of open file management and an investment in additional hardware for clustering. Technical Editor Ron Herardian helps you understand the options.
How to use UI standards to cut your Notes development time by 15% or more
DominoPower Magazine - June 1999
Senior Technology Editor Richard Echeandia is back and better than ever. This month he shows you how a set of user interface standards can reduce your Notes development time and increase your productivity. But if all you think we're going to do is preach to you about standards, you're sadly mistaken. This is DominoPower, where we give you actual, useful tools each and every issue. This time, Richard provides a step-by-step set of instructions for building common form footers for all your Notes applications. Read this article and you may actually get to experience weekends again.
Sorting documents via Notes and the Web
DominoPower Magazine - May 1999
Contributing Editor Dan Velasco is back with another of his incredibly useful articles. This time, he takes you inside the deep, dark reaches of LotusScript to teach you how to build sorting functions for Web pages in Domino. If you want to truly tap the power of Domino, you should read this article. All that, plus we managed to figure out how to legitimately include Pauly Shore's name in an article in DominoPower. You'll just have to read the article to find out how -- and why.
An easy way to build your own simple, text-based Domino hit counter
DominoPower Magazine - May 1999
Web page hit counters are popular; it doesn't matter in how many flavors they appear. In March, DominoPower ran an article about how to create a graphical hit counter (graphic images of the numbers would change). In this article, Frank Cseh shows how to write a simple text-based counter. This is one those DominoPower articles you can read now and put to use in about 10 minutes.
How to choose and find low cost Domino hosting providers
DominoPower Magazine - April 1999
While it's incredibly easy to find someplace to host your Web site if you're writing your own HTML, finding an ISP that'll host a Domino site is much more difficult. In this incredibly timely article, John Roling explains how to choose a low cost Domino hosting provider and provides you with pointers to some of the best.
More ways to keep 'em coming back
DominoPower Magazine - November 1998
James Cimino once again writes an article that could go directly to your bottom line. In this overall survey, James explains a number of useful tools for driving traffic to your site. If you want to learn about Web rings, list servers, affiliate programs, and Web site submission services, this is the place for you.
How to reduce your Notes application development time by 15%
DominoPower Magazine - November 1998
Senior Technology Editor Richard Echeandia does it again. This month he introduces a process that can reduce your Notes development time and increase your productivity. But we're not just talking time and economics here. As a bonus, Richard also provides a step-by-step set of instructions for building common headers for all your Notes applications. You'll find this article invaluable.
Distributing applications to remote users
DominoPower Magazine - November 1998
Senior Technical Editor Richard Echeandia continues his Creating Custom Applications series with this helpful article. Ever want to both distribute databases to remote users and cascade application functionality? Read this article and find out how.
Cascading custom applications on your Domino server
DominoPower Magazine - October 1998
Not to be outdone by the new kid on the block, Senior Technology Editor Richard Echeandia weighs in with a beefy tutorial on cascading applications. Cascading address books are particularly helpful because they reduce mail-addressing problems for your end-user community. It also gives you more time because, while you probably want to have your primary address book locked down security wise, the cascaded address books can be more open for editing by anyone within your organization. Richard scores the knockout punch by showing you how to make your new or existing Notes application databases work like Public Address Books, so that they can be cascaded on the Domino server or your remote Notes workstations. We have a winnah!
Keep 'em coming back for more
DominoPower Magazine - October 1998
So you've spent all this time building a Domino-based Web site. And you've spent all this money on hardware, software, and bandwidth. Is it a good investment or money flushed down the circular Web server? No question, if you have lots of visitors and you're making money, it's a win. The key is not just getting them to visit your site once -- it's turning them into repeat visitors and, possibly, repeat customers. If you want your whole Web investment to pan out, read this article to learn how to keep 'em coming back for more.
Running a commercial Domino web site
DominoPower Magazine - September 1998
Is it time to go public with your web site? Do you want to open up the floodgates to millions of netizens? Is it time to turn your web site into a profit center? If so, you'll need to read James Cimino's helpful article. In this article, James helps you get started setting up a commercial web site. In this article, he helps you understand the important stages of planning, positioning, and preparation. Don't go public without it.
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