Thanks to everyone who responded yesterday. I've considered and tested the responses to find the method which will be simplest for our users.divbr //divdivWhat follows is a set of instructions..../divbr /divWe start our instructions by identifying the file we want to link to. Often for me, this will be a MPEG, AVI or giant PDF (because why else would you link rather than attach?) but in this example, I'm just using a MS Word Document./divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRZRz3d3VI/AAAAAAAAFpo/6miWVSJiBr8/s1600/FileLink.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRZRz3d3VI/AAAAAAAAFpo/6miWVSJiBr8/s400/FileLink.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509126406696459602" //adivbr //divdivYou can see my path here is:/divdivbr //divdivM:DeptIT2010DevelopmentExtraNetConcepts/divdivbr //divdivand my file name is /divdivbr //divdivProposed Extranet Login Systems.doc/divdivbr //divdivThus; my entire path and filename would be;/divdivbr //divdivbM:DeptIT2010DevelopmentExtraNetConceptsProposed Extranet Login Systems.doc/b/divdivbr //divdivAlready by working the actual filespec out we're stepping slightly beyond the boundaries of the typical user./divdivbr //divdivNext, we type our email and highlight the words we want to link to a file;/divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRaEBVXZJI/AAAAAAAAFpw/25tmpBiVVXU/s1600/FileLink2.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRaEBVXZJI/AAAAAAAAFpw/25tmpBiVVXU/s400/FileLink2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509127269304984722" //abr /divThen we click the new "LINK" icon in Notes 8.5/divbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRbcAwwDDI/AAAAAAAAFqA/HJarVi1-pVk/s1600/FileLink3.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qb-X-glOJAE/THRbcAwwDDI/AAAAAAAAFqA/HJarVi1-pVk/s400/FileLink3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509128780979899442" //aThis gives us a nice little box in which to type our URL. If this was a web link, it would be easy. Of course, being a file link, it's a different story.divbr //divdivYou might think that at this point, you could simply paste a link to;/divdivbr //divdivbM:DeptIT2010DevelopmentExtraNetConceptsProposed Extranet Login Systems.doc/b/divdivbr //divdivbut you'd be wrong. Notes will throw this out to the operating system as a URL. If your browser accepts all kinds of different URLs, (like Google Chrome does - and I presume future browsers will) then it won't know what protocol to use. /divdivbr //divdivJust pasting the path in caused a lot of problems for me./divdivbr //divdivSo... this is what you need to do to modify your URL./divdivolliPrefix it with file:///liliChange all backslashes to forward slashes (actually this should happen automatically)./li/oldivYour new URL should look like this;/div/divdivbr //divdivbfile://M:/Dept/IT/2010/Development/ExtraNet/Concepts/Proposed Extranet Login Systems.doc/b/divdivbbr //b/divdivPaste your new URL in and send your email. It should all work. Well, mostly work... If your users have firefox, you might discover that it actually blocks local links for security reasons unless you use these a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work"workarounds/a./divdivbr //divdivI'm not sure whether to provide these instructions for my users or not. In my opinion, it's still too difficult for them. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to create a button which did it - or even better, if IBM were to adjust the links button in future versions of Notes to allow browsing and selecting files on local resources./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17199472-3805071500600222589?l=dominogavin.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
How to Adjust the timing on a Subtitle SRT file using Subtitle Workshop 4
Wed, Oct 19th 2011 4:22a Gavin Bollard In a previous post, I discussed ways to find subtitles to add to your AVI movies and I also looked at using Google Translate to modify them if they weren't in English (or your chosen language). Note: All of the software mentioned here is free. See: Finding and Adjusting Subtitles on AVI Files. In this post I want to look at how to change the timing on subtitles. Why would you need to do this? Movies have different frame rates depending upon the country that they are shown in and the system [read] Keywords: blogger
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Notes and Domino 8.5.3 are out...
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 10:22p Gavin Bollard The ServerI've upgraded our test server from 8.5.2 to 8.5.3 and it took slightly under 5 minutes. Now that's what I call a good server upgrade (are you listening Microsoft???) Anyway, so far, so good, everything seems to be working but then I haven't done a whole lot of testing yet. The ClientMy client took 21 minutes to upgrade from 8.5.2 to 8.5.3, which felt like a long time. It also came back a little weird and some views didn't populate immediately. Refreshing them made a big difference [read] Keywords: domino
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Finding and Adjusting Subtitles on AVI files
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 8:02a Gavin Bollard If you enjoy watching foreign films or if you're hard of hearing like me, then subtitles are a must in your movie collection. In my last post, I covered how to convert movies from DVD to AVI for playing on a portable player. In this post, I'll be discussing subtitles.
There are two types of subtitles, burned in and selectable. Obviously the selectable type is best because you can turn them on and off and you can obtain different languages too. Within the selectable type, there are a few forma [read] Keywords: blogger
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Converting DVDs to Good Quality AVI Files - Part 2 (The Procedure)
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 11:03p Gavin Bollard Forget the why and wherefores of what we're doing - That's part one which you can read here.
Lets get started;
IngredientsA computer with a large hard drive 20GB Free? Pentium 4 3GHz or Faster and a DVD driveA copy of DVD Decrypter - it's freeA copy of AutoGK - it's free
DVD Decrypterhttp://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/This software allows you to copy the files from a DVD to your hard drive. The project was shut down some years back but it's still possible to get hold of it on the internet. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Converting DVDs to Good Quality AVI Files - Part 1 (The Waffle)
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 4:02a Gavin Bollard I'm very much a believer in the idea that "files" will be the next big format for video entertainment after DVDs. I guessed right from the start that blu-ray would win the format war against HD-DVD but I never thought that either would take over.
About 15 years ago, after having ridden the music upgrade from LP Records to tapes and to CD, I stumbled across this "new" format called MP3. Back then, there were no MP3 players, just computers but I was enthralled by the idea that with enough s [read] Keywords: blogger
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Scheduling Maintenance Tasks on the Domino Server
Tue, Jul 26th 2011 4:02a Gavin Bollard I'm sure that most Domino admins have been doing these tasks regularly but if you don't have occasion to touch them often, you might this post useful. As I mentioned last week, we've been having issues with the JVE running out of memory on our server. One of the "solutions" (band-aids) was to restart the domino HTTP task. I've been experimenting to see how long I can leave it and the shortest it's been is about 30 hours. It seemed to be a good idea to stop and then restart the domino HTTP [read] Keywords: admin
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Domino Resource Issues under XPages
Sun, Jul 17th 2011 8:22p Gavin Bollard A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new XPages app. Hopefully the first of many. It was very impressive and we got a lot of hits.... ...until the server crashed. Not a big deal. Our server is set to restart automatically, and it was up and running in no time. Then about 1.5 days later we had another crash. We've decided to tackle this on a few fronts, first of all we're rewriting some parts of the app to be a bit less intense and to take better advantage of the recycler. That's all cutting e [read] Keywords: admin
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How to Do a Mail Merge to Email using Lotus Notes
Wed, May 18th 2011 10:26p Gavin Bollard Why do one?In today's "green" world, it makes much better sense to send out emails than letters but you still want to personalize them. Sadly, by itself Lotus Notes doesn't support mail merge to email. Of course, we know that outlook does (but then it lets anyone and anything send emails for you - even when you don't want them to). So, how to do it in Notes? OpenNTFThe first port of call is OpenNTF (http://www.openntf.org/). This place is full of great things but most of them are really bad [read] Keywords: agent
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How to Turn off Local Encryption by Default in the Notes 8.x Client
Mon, May 16th 2011 5:42p Gavin Bollard What's this All AboutIf you have a test environment for your Lotus Notes applications, then chances are that you regularly find yourself copying (not replicating) from Production to test - and probably via a Local connection. If you do this a lot, then chances are that at some point you've forgotten to deselect the default local encryption. This is a great security feature but it's quite embarrassing when you arrive at your test site with a database which won't open. Did you know that you ca [read] Keywords: lotus
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