Yes you heard right, onpremise Verse gets extensionpoints that gives you the possibility to find text and populate this.
And also gives you the possibility to do intercept the user before a email is sent. This is great for compliance reasons.
There is more good stuff in there but this is really exciting a developer end point in to web email.
If you are using Domino and mail on premise you should install Verse now.
My list on why you should
Installing Verse is a simple operation, make sure that your server has the right Domino and FP version installed. Also add the 2 new views to your mail templates and update this to your users.
Verse is a great performance enhancement for mail management.
Some improvements I would like to see in future versions
Verse 1.01 is out with great improvements so if you have Verse but not that version upgrade (needs 9.01fp8 if3)
Demands what and what not the employees do on their computers becomes more and more important. Some examples, a person comes in to the reception desk with a presentation with coffee stains on it. Asks to get a new copy, please it’s on my USB drive. And the hacker is in your network! If this was after the 25:th of may 2018 your company could get fines because the employee didn’t get enough training. This is only one example, what about passwords do they use the same password to your internal network as they use on social media? Can I plugins a usb drive into your visitor registration computer? What can guests reach from the guest WiFi network?
This new laws will come in affect next year and will affect all companies that work with European citizens. It demands a good knowledge about what personal data your company stores about them and how long. What do I mean with personal data, it’s their name, email, phone number, ipadress well everything that can be used to identify them.
Knowledge, documentation and education will be required and you need to start now. This isn’t something to ignore because it might lead to 4% of total revenue or 20 million euros in fines.
Do you want to know more, feel free to contact me.
We have everything on our own servers you might say and have no use for IBM Bluemix Cloud services you might say. Well, I think you are wrong, Bluemix will help you expand the reach of your applications beyond borders that you might have today.
This is 4 examples where Bluemix will help you expand your applications in an easy and affordable way.
If you haven’t started using Bluemix or want to, feel free to contact me.
If you have or haven’t heard of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) that is a European Union law that will be in effect on the 25:th of May 2018. This regulation will affect all companies working with citizens of EU, do many companies will be affected not only Companies with offices within the EU.
So if your company is within EU or work with EU citizens this affects your company.
Why should you bother, well the board of directors of your company will. Because the company can get a fine of 4% of your total revenue and your company can be stopped from handling personal information about European citizens. And that includes information about customers, partners and suppliers.
Why is this implemented
We send out more and more information about our personal information and companies has forgotten that they have only borrowed this information and they can’t do what they want with this.
And with all data breaches in mind a better knowledge and understanding about security would probably have prevented many of them.
I will continue to monitor this area and write about this
Feel free to give your comment about GDPR or contact me if you have any other questions
a minor update to fix some issues with the standby widget for bootstrap is in xSnippets.
Found an issue with multiple triggering of the widget, this is hopefully fixed now, reported by David Leedy.
Check it out here
https://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=bootstrap-standby-dialog
The last week after MWLUG there has been numerous blog posts about Domino. No roadmap IBM is killing Domino, there is no future for Domino, IBM haven’t released any new releases since 9.01. That is not true at all, if we look at what has been released since 9.0.1 came to market. IBM Domino customers have received 6 fixpacks but they are not only fixpacks they are feature packs. Why, well the Domino http engine has received TLS 1.0 and later TLS 1.2 with new encryption methods. That is a major improvement if you ask me.
And if you go beyond the server and include traveler that I use all the time and see all new functionality that has been released there, and lately the possibility to use the Mobile Verse Client and Outlook mail support.
XPages Extension library has received 17 improvement releases for app development. These improvements has been adding updated one ui theme, jquery and jquery themes. Mobile development components, new xpages components and lots more. Yes, some improvements are better than others.
And with the upcoming FP7 that I hope will include Java 8 support, external view indexes and hopefully more.
For IBM or other vendors to be able to keep up with everything happening needs new ideas and if you look at the market in general the release of new versions is moving from yearly big releases to quarterly or monthly improvement releases. I would rather want more small releases than one big one with a new number on it.
That is the change I’ve seen with 9.01 from big releases to quarterly improvements both with fix packs but also thru the extension library releases. And after reading some comments on other blogs (Johnnys) from Ed Brill a commitment to deliver maintenance until 2021 that is great if you ask me that means at least security fixes, fixpacks and hopefully new functionality. When everything comes around IBM Domino is a great platform to develop applications, run applications on and administer applications on. Yes it has it’s downsides but doesn’t all platforms have that if you look closely.
I remember last time when Domino was dead but it’s still here.
Updates
We now know that we will get feature packs and Fickpacks that will include most of the features that where scheduled for 9.02. I really hope that we will get the index outside of the NSF update and Live view updates with a interface for administration of them.
Bill Malchisky has created a two part blog post with a Summary of his talk with Barry Rosen Part 1 Part 2
There is several ways how to add extensions into the IBM Notes client. But the best and simplest way that I have found is to do it this way.
Download the prefered Addon in my case I select the OpenNTF IBM XPages extension library, download the latest version to your computer. Unzip the file in your prefered location, Unzip the zipfile called updateSiteOpenNTF-designer.zip in a new folder.
In you Notes client create a new database in a folder on the server I call mine Client Updatessites and in the New database dialog select advanced templates and Eclipse Update site (9)
Give the database a name of that you like.
Open the database and click on Import Local update site find the site.xml in the client update site folder. (important it has to be the client update site) follow the steps when importing.
You might say, wait this is like installing this on the server, yes it is but we are adding client code in this case.
When you are done, go to the action menu and select show url:s a dialog appears.
Select the second option nrpc:// press the copy button besides this row.
Second step, importing the site into the client
On the right and side in you client there is a my Widget section
Click on the three lines at the right side
Now select Configure a widget from and then select Features and Plugins in a update site
paste the copied Url press load and press next selecting what you want to install , give the widget a good explaining name and finish.
you will also after a while get the approve install dialogs where you approve the installation.
After this your extension is ready to be used after a restart of the client. But the best thing is that you will get an icon in the “my Widget” section and if your right click that icon you can remove it. Send it to a collegue and an email or publish it to a widget catalog.
Easy simple administration of OpenNTF and other addons in the IBM Notes client & designer
The first you think when you see this is that you don’t have access in the ACL or that the document has reader or author name fields that is blocking you from updating the document. But there is another option on the database that can give this problem.
On the advanced tab “Maximum Internet name and password” must be set to the level you want a user maximum to have. This will block any other user acess set in the ACL so if you set Reader here all XPage users will be readers even if you assign Editor, Designer, Manager in the ACL.
Took me awhile to remember this option when I got this error, then it’s time to write a post about it.
Remember that a change of this option takes awhile before it starts to work. Fastest way is to restart http.
Other scenario that also can come from this problem.
Changing to edit mode on a xpage document flashing and back to readmode
Setting editDoument on document action not working.
Do you have similar hard to find errors that you have solved for XPages, make a comment with a link to your blog or write directly in the comment.
Fulltext searching in Domino is often a great way to find documents. Searching for information in documents is quite straight forward. Until you want to search for dates in web applications. If you have an web application in XPages and want to search for documents created after a certain date. You can write a query like this
[_CreationDate]>2001-05-01
But what if you users has an english locale with a date format like this mm/dd/yy and the user enters the date from a date field in an xpage.
Is it the user locale / server locale or what is the date format you should use?
============= UPDATE ================
I got an private email from a guy called Timothy Briley saying that the way to move forward when creating multi locale fulltext searches is to always get the retult from the DateOnly property on the NotesDateTime object. I haven’t tried it yet but it sounds reasonable 🙂
