IBM launched a new worlwide marketing campaign to get more visibility for our beloved brand!

Check out www.lotusknows.com to discover the world of IBM Lotus!

I have to warn you, once you’re a Lotus addict, there is no way back

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This site is running on domino. This is how I accomplished this:

1. Create a java agent to read the rss feed.
2. On the web page, use an XmlHttpRequest to call the agent and get the XML.
3. Also in javascript: parse the XML to HTML and put in a div on the website.

The code for step 2 and 3, you can see on our website: just download the javascript code (we use dojo as a framework).

Step 1 is also fairly simple. Here is the most important part of the code:

Session session = getSession();
AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
PrintWriter pw = getAgentOutput();
pw.println("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
URL labs = new URL("http://labs.groupwave.be/index.php/feed/");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(labs.openStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
pw.println(inputLine);
in.close();

The tricky part for me was the get past our proxy server. I was testing this code on my local domino server meaning that the proxy server had to be used to access the internet (and the feed). I tried modifying the server document and setting the agent security to allow unrestricted operations. To no avail.

Then I found out that the java.policy file (in the ‘jvm/lib/security’ folder) has to be modified to allow java to modify system settings. And that’s what’s needed to set up the proxy server in java:

java.util.Properties sysProps = System.getProperties();
sysProps.put("proxySet", "true");
sysProps.put("proxyHost", "proxy.iconos.be");
sysProps.put("proxyPort", "8080");

This is what you need to add in the java.policy file to get this to work (in the ‘grant’ section – “default permissions granted to all domains”):

permission java.security.AllPermission
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxySet", "write";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxyHost", "write";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "proxyPort", "write";

Hope this helps some of you…

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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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I did not find a table containing the integer values of the excel contant names you get when you record a macro. So I called in the help of  Theo.

The simplest way is to use the ‘immediate window’ in VB. Press CTRL-G to make it appear in your vb-window.

You can then simply type: “print xlUnderlineStyleSingle” which will show you “2″.

For your reference, I’ll attach the entire table.

Constants Exported by Type Library EXCEL9.OLB

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It is a Lotus Notes database, so we had to modify some basic stuff to make the site more search engine friendly.

Recently, IBM published some great articles on this. Check it out:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/dominoappdev/SEO+techniques
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/dominoappdev/Best+Practices+for+Building+Web+Applications+for+Domino+8

Update: as correctly noted, these links don’t work anymore…

Here are the new links (I’ll add a few in case IBM start shifting some content again):

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0676.html

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/07232008025645PMJHEQ8Y.htm

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/08042008125532PMKMKMU9.htm

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=Redbooks%20Wiki%3A%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Domino%208.0%20Web%20Application%20Development

You can check out the result on www.ikwijsdeweg.be

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When a user logs in, their Lotus Notes information is accessed using LDAP.

They needed Lotus Notes webservices that can:

• Check the availability of a user based on a given timeframe
• Create/modify an appointment
• Return a list of all calendar entries within a given timeframe

I’ll explain how we accomplished this…

 To store the webservices, we created a new database called CalendarServices.nsf. The webservice has a “run as” option set to “Webservice User/Domain”. This user has access to busytime.nsf and all mailfiles.

To be able to authenticate against the webservice we created a rule on the domino server for the url pattern “*CalendarServices.nsf *”.

After coding the webservices (in Java – please contact us for the code), we created the consumer client with axis1.4. SoapUI has been a big help since this tool will generate the consumer code for you.

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