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Some mail rules not executing in Notes 6.5.

Sven — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:48:14 +0000

My day was hardly started when I got the question why mail rules weren’t moving the mails to their folders. I went over to this person and had a look at his mailfile. Turns out he had over 150 rules that all move mails into certain folders based on their subject.

Some enabled mail rules were not executing, others did what they intended to do.

After a little searching this is what I found on the IBM support site:

The revised rule numbering functionality introduced in the Notes/Domino 6.5.4/6.0.5 mail templates has a minor flaw. This flaw causes the unexpected value in the OrderNum field, as well as in the $FilterFormula_n field written to the Calendar Profile. This can result in the last enabled rule to internally overwrite the second to last enabled rule, and thus the second to last rule is not present to execute. This can also result in an edited rule not executing – this case only occurs when there is only a single rule present.
NOTE: This issue does not exist in the DWA iNotes template.

This issue was reported as a regression to Quality Engineering as SPR# KYOE6FMAPH. This issue has been indirectly fixed in the mail templates that ship with Notes/Domino 6.5.5.

Workarounds: In order to repair the current rules:
Disable all rules and then re-enable them from bottom to top.

In fact this just did the trick! After disabling all the rules and then enable them again one by one, it seems that the problem is solved.

Cross posted at svenm.wordpress.com

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Lotus Quickr 8.1 is HERE!

Sven — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:26:46 +0000

Lotus Quickr had a great start in 2007, and you’ve heard about exciting new capabilities Lotus Quickr is going to deliver in 2008!

The new capabilities we are delivering this month with Lotus Quickr 8.1 including Quickr Entry! This release is focused on addressing key customer input, including ease of use enhancements and administrator features such as reporting and membership management.

Lotus Quickr 8.1 has new connectors to access Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Symphony, integration with Lotus Connections and personal file sharing, all designed to make it easier to share documents and collaborate with others.

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CommonTime Evaluation Certificate – expires Jan 8th, 2008

Sven — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:16:05 +0000

If you are using mSuite and are using the 2007 edition of the CommonTime Evaluation Certificate, you need to take prompt action to avoid loss of service. Please follow the instructions in the PDF document.

CertificateExpiry2008.pdf

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Google maps integration

Sven — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:30:41 +0000

Last year Alan Lepofsky posted a small trick to integrate Google maps into your Lotus Notes Personal Address Book. By clicking the ‘Google Map This Address’ link, Google Maps will open in your browser and show the address of the contact person.

But Google offers more than just showing the address of a certain person. You can also get directions.
How? Open your contacts form and do the following:

1) Put a description next to the address or title (e.g. Get Google directions)
2) Add a url hotspot containing this formula:

xTo := @ReplaceSubstring(OfficeStreetAddress;” “:”#” ; “+” :”%23″) +
“+” + @ReplaceSubstring(OfficeCity;” ” ; “+”) + “+” +
@ReplaceSubstring(OfficeZip;” ” ; “+”)+ “+” +
@ReplaceSubstring(OfficeCountry;” ” ; “+”);
xFrom := “Provinciale+steenweg+39+2627+Schelle+Belgi%C3%AB”;

“http://www.google.com/maps?saddr=” + xFrom +
“&geocode=&dirflg=&daddr=” + xTo + “&f=d&hl=en&sll=51.255885,4.436806&sspn=0.008272,0.016866&” + “ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1″

3) Change the field names in xTo to the correct names that your form uses.
4) Change the address line in xFrom to your company’s address.

Now open a contact and click on the link ‘Get Google directions’. The result should be a bit like this.

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