1
Jul
With the eclipsed based IDE it is now much easier to search for a particular string in a view. You can try this by following these steps:
1. Select the ‘views’ category in a database:
2. Select “Search…” in the Search menu:
3. Fill in what you want to search for under ‘File Search’ (make sure you selected ’selected resources’ or it will search the entire database):
4. The result is shown! (you can double click on the result and it will open the view in DXL format)
18
May
When I login and want to acccess my homepage I get an error message.
Solution: Remove a cookie named “WASReqURL”
30
Apr
IBM released interim fix 1 for Lotus Domino 8.5.1 fixpack 2 a few days ago. This fix solves some problems with DAOS enabled databases. It’s recommended that you install this interim fix if you are running DAOS enabled databases on this version of Domino.
The fix and installation instructions can be found at IBM Fix Central.
23
Apr
There is a known bug in the 8.0 mail template, that incorrectly shows friday January 1st, 2010 as the first week of 2010. Officially January 4th, 2010 starts the first week of 2010 and the week from December 28th to January 1st is the 53th week of 2009.
Not everyone seems to be affected by this bug, but if you are, all week numbers in Notes are one week ahead. It’s easy to check: just go to January 1st on your calendar in Notes. It should say “week 53 – 0 weeks left in year” at the botom. If it doesn’t, you are probably affected.
IBM supplies the following workaround: in the Notes client, go to File -> Preferences. In there, go to Calendar and To Do -> Regional Settings and look for the “Week Numbers” section. Set this to “Always use the ISO standard” and the week numbers should be fine. You can also do this via a notes.ini setting:
FooterWeekNo=2
It’s not a showstopper bug, but it can be irritating.
6
Apr
A few days ago, I had to move the data directory of a Domino server to another partition on that server. So I shut down Domino and moved the data directory to the new partition. After this, I changed the “Directory” parameter in notes.ini, so that it pointed to this new location.
I thought that was it so I started up the Domino service again, only to be confronted with a non-working Domino server. The following error showed up on the console:
An error occurred during license use management initialization
After this, the Domino service just stopped. A technote from IBM explained that this problem was caused by two files: Domino8.lic and nodelock. I checked the data directory and those files were present. The technote suggested to reinstall the Domino server, but I wanted to avoid that.
I started looking around in the Windows registry and discovered that there are two references to the data directory in there. Of course, these were still pointing to the old location. After changing these registry keys to the new location, I could start the server again without any problems.
The keys can be found in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Domino\
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Domino\1
The name of the key is:
DataPath
Just edit the values and fill in the new path of the Domino directory.
PS: If, for some reason, you don’t want to change the registry, you can also recreate the data directory at it’s old location. Then copy the two files (Domino8.lic and nodelock) to that directory and you will be able to start the server. All other data can stay at the new location. But I prefer to just change the registry.
