• Resource Properties: This gives you the regular property box you would get if you double-clicked on the image resource;

• Refresh: You can use this option to refresh the image resource from an updated version of the image file. You can even refresh multiple image resources at once if you wish;

• Export: If you select one image resource, you'll be given the usual download window and can choose where to download the image file. If you select two or more image resources, you'll be asked to select the directory in which you would like to save the files. There's no option to create a new directory in this dialog box, however, so you'll have to make sure you already have a directory created.

I researched image resources in the Notes/Domino Fix List Database at http://www.notes.net/r5fixlist.nsf, and I found that it wasn't until a fix was made in 5.0.2 that you could export or refresh more than one image resource at a time.

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Tip #5: Using @BrowserInfo to hide things from Navigator and IE
Published: October 6, 2000

One of the biggest headaches most developers have to deal with is trying to develop applications that work correctly in both Netscape Navigator and IE (Internet Explorer). Using @BrowserInfo to hide incompatible code from each of the browsers was something that saved me a lot of time and trouble and which I thought might be useful for others to read about as well.

For those of you who need to develop applications for both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, you've probably been frustrated by the fact that both of them can sometimes interpret parts of your pages differently. I had such a situation arise recently, and after trying in vain to come up with code that both Navigator and IE would be happy with, I finally gave up and used a new powerful hide-when ability built into R5. It's the ability to easily hide things from either Navigator or IE using the @BrowserInfo function.

To hide something from Navigator (or Navigator-compatible browsers, which Notes Navigator 5.0 is), select the text/formula you want to hide and put the following code in the hide-when property for the paragraph or line:

To hide something from IE, put the following code in the hide-when property:

If you want to hide something from Notes clients, use the following code:

Of course, if you end up needing to have to hide a lot of different design elements from each of the browsers, you might consider detecting the browser first and then directing them to the appropriate customized page or form instead. But if you only need to hide a small amount of code, the solution above should work just fine for you.