No need for MS Office anymore with 8.5.3

>If the gold version of Lotus Notes 8.5.3 has Symphony 3.0 as the beta releases has then

The need to Microsoft Office on company pc is almost 0%
Symphony 3 release note
The new support for VBA script is the key enhancement that will make the transition from Ms Office to Symphony easier. Why pay alot for MS Office when you can use Symphony for free??

disclaimer
‘This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation.’

Version 8.5.3 will make your inbox life easier

>If the functionallity in the beta of 8.5.3 will be added to the gold version.

I don’t know if you are finding old emails from people, often. But this is something I do in my inbox all the time. I even has created my own view “by email” but In 8.5.3 of Notes with upgraded design of you mailbox to 8.5.3. You can do a search by sender and search by subject.
This are great addons if you ask me, they will most definate help me and hopefully many other users.
disclaimer
‘This is beta software from IBM and does not represent a commitment, promise or legal obligation by IBM to deliver, in a future release of Notes/Domino or Lotus Notes Traveler, any material, code or functionality described/shown in this presentation.’

Rules in my inbox is dead

>I’m a fan of rules in my inbox but suddenly they are not working.

  • I have tried to deactivate them and reactivate them.
  • Delete the profile document and recreate it.
No Luck so far 🙁
Any idea how to debug / fix the problem.
Send me a comment please!!

Loading an image from the nsf

>I’m trying to load an image stored in the .nsf file into an java image.

And then adding this into an IText pdf.
Does anybody know how to load an image in XPages?
I have seen examples using this.getClass().getResourceasStream(XXX)
I don’t get an error using this but I don’t get any picture probably the wrong path.
If so Does someone know what path to use if the image is uploaded as an ordinary image or in the web-inf folder.
Thanks
Fredrik

@DbColumn fix to always return an array

@DbColumn might not return what you expect I found out that @DbColumn despite what the documentation says not always return an Array.
If there is only one entry inside the view you will get an string back. This will give you problem if you are using this as the source for an repeat control or somethign else that is expecting an array.

Use this code to fix you problem.


How to speed up internet using file hashes.

>Someone have probably thought about this before, if so why doesn’t the browsers have this 😉


If we could use filehashes like DAOS to find if we have downloaded the exact same file before and the resource tag could have a filehash tag from the webserver. then we could get a much faster web.
i.e.
<link http://Dominoserver/database.nsf/mycss.css” rel=”stylesheettype=”text/css” filehash=”78AD782EA9292″>

If the webbrowser found this file hash in the cache regardless of server the same resource could be used. Of course there is probably some security aspects in this but if it worked the web would be much faster.
We could even drop most of the cache aspects in the browsers because content without the filehash uses the old way of caching. But if filehash is found webbrowsers could always find if the same content exists locally, as soon as you change the content your users download the new content and never need to download content/resources they already have locally.

This is an idea nothing that todays webbrowsers or webservers support but perhaps in the future.

Update on post
There is a HTML tag called ETag that is apart of the http 1.1 spec, this adds a crc check of the content. Great news, didn’t know about this but we still have the problem that we only want to load the same content once. Regardless of the server we have loaded the resource from.
To get a maximum utilization of the cache.


Runtime error in Internet Explorer

>I found a strange error today I started to get “runtime” error in internet explorer. I investigated the problem and found that the following row was causing the problem.

document.getElementById(“Body”).innerHTML=tmpHTML;
the tmpHTML variable contains some valid HTML and the Body tag was a span tag.
When looking into the problem some more I found that it is an IE bug so when I changed the tag from span to div, everything worked again.
Hope that this might help someone else so you don’t have to investigate alot.

Chrome Os is here, get your self a nightly build

>Google has released Chrome OS that will run all applications from the webbrowser.

I found this site that created nightly builds of chrome os in WMWare, Virtualbox and USB images.
Great if you want to try it on your machine. bothe the WMWare Player and Virtualbox can be runned for free on your machine.
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/vanilla.php

Modifying a mime richtext item in Lotusscript

>I have been trying to modifying a Mime Richtext item using Lotusscript but no luck yet.

I have a Mime richtext item with a stored image also in mime and I just want to change the
HTML part not the image part. And every time I try to modify the HTML part it gets changed but the images are gone after saving.
If you have an idea on how to do this please send me an comment.

IE 9 and Domino Applets = Crash

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I have some machines running 64bit Window 7 and Vista 64bit with Java and IE 9
And they are crashing when opening a page with a domino applet.
Is someone else experiencing this?