Found a small “bug” on the settings document for Lotus Traveler on Domino 8.5 servers. If you create a settings document for Traveler, and change the synchronization options under Preferences -> Sync, the settings are not saved if you leave “How to apply this setting” on “Don’t set value”. If you leave it on that setting, the checkmarks and auto sync option will always revert to the default settings if you save and close the document.

It may seem logic that it doesn’t save the settings, if you don’t apply them anyway. But I haven’t seen this behavior on other setting documents before, so I think it’s save to say that this isn’t intended behavior.

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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)

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When I login and want to acccess my homepage I get an error message.

Solution: Remove a cookie named “WASReqURL”

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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.

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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.

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