diviThere's now a great new OpenNTF document management plug-in for Notes. I'm interested in seeing if I can move away from MS Office and this little utility seems to me to be the best way to start. It allows you to work on documents in folders while still keeping things available for users who prefer to access folders directly. The only caveat that I've found so far is that it wants everything to be stored in OpenDocument format and will convert the imports accordingly./i/divdivbr //divSo... I've just installed this plug-in and in typical "dumb-user" fashion, I had to ask a number of questions of the authors.divbr //divdivI thought that to save others a bit of time and to illustrate the whole procedure, I'd make the procedure available here. Even if you're not interested in this particular plug-in, you might be interested in some of the others which are available. (like a href="http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocumentamp;name=File%20Navigator"the awesome FileNavigator/a project). These steps might just be the ticket to installing them./divdivbr //divdivMy instructions worked on Lotus Notes 8.5.2 but should work on other some versions too./divdivbr //divdivdiv1. Download a href="http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/downloadcounter?openagentamp;project=Document%20Managementamp;release=1.0.0amp;unid=D8AE543FE7DDB4558625778F001E3577amp;attachment=DocumentManagement.zip"DocumentManagement.ZIP/a/divdivClick a href="http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocumentamp;name=Document%20Management"here/a for the project page for DocumentManagement. In theory you can download it from OpenNTF. I think you have to be logged in first. For some reason, I've been finding it difficult to download anything on OpenNTF recently, so if you experience difficulty, head to their a href="http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-88T8H3"blog post/a and use the a href="http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/downloadcounter?openagentamp;project=Document%20Managementamp;release=1.0.0amp;unid=D8AE543FE7DDB4558625778F001E3577amp;attachment=DocumentManagement.zip"download link/a there./divdivbr //divdiv2. Extract All files to a folder:/divdivIn my case, since I put all our Widgets together on a corporate drive, I extracted all of the files to X:IBMLotusWidgetsDocumentMangement. Your setup is probably different so just extract them wherever you want (and remember where you put them)./divdivbr //divdivNote that I had to separately unzip the updatesite sub-folder. For some reason it's a zip inside the ZIP. Notes didn't want to read it when I first tried, so I unzipped it./divdivbr //divdiv3. In Lotus Notes client click bFile, Application, Install /bon the menu. /divdivWhat? You don't have a File, Application, Install menu option? Sometimes you don't. I'm not sure why. It might be an 8.5.0 or 8.5.1 thing because I didn't need to do it in 8.5.2./divdivbr //divdiviTo enable the Eclipse update manager UI in Lotus Notes, use these steps.../i/divdivibr //i/divdivdivia. Close your Lotus Notes client/i/divdivibr //i/divdivib. Start Notepad or your preferred text editor./i/divdivibr //i/divdivic. Open the frameworkrcp in the Notes Application Directorybr /In my case, this was, /ibiC:Program FilesIBMLotusNotesframeworkrcp/i/bi /i/divdivibr //i/divdivid. Look for a file called /ibiplugin_customization.ini/i/bi and open it./i/divdivibr //i/divdivie. Add the line/i/divdivicom.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true/i/divdivianywhere in the file./i/divdivibr //i/divdivif. Save and close file /i/divdivibr //i/divdivig. restart Lotus Notes/i/divdivibr //i/div/divdiviThanks to Christian Petters at /ia href="http://www.cubetoon.com/"iwww.cubetoon.com/i/ai who /ia href="http://www.cubetoon.com/2009/enable-file-application-install-in-notes-8/"ifirst saved me from that gotcha/i/ai./i/divdivbr //divdivOk, detour over... let's resume.../divdivbr //divdivbr //divdiv3. In Lotus Notes client click bFile, Application, Install /bon the menu. /divdivbr //divdiv4. Choose the option maked b(o) Search for new features to Install/b and click the button marked bNext/b./divdivbr //divdiv5. Click the button marked bAdd Folder Location/b.../divdivbr //divdiv6. Browse to:/divdivX:IBMLotusWidgetsDocumentMangementUpdatesite/divdiv(or wherever you saved your files to back in step 2)/divdivand click bOk/b./divdivbr //divdiv7. You'll be presented with an b"Edit Local Site" dialog box/b, just click bOk/b./divdivbr //divdiv8. Click bFinish/b. (this button lies - seriously... there's a long way to go yet)/divdivbr //divdiv9. On the next screen, select bDocumentManagement/updatesite /b/divdivFor some crazy reason, it defaults to unticked ... then click bNext/b/divdivbr //divdiv10. Click b(o) I accept the terms in the License Agreements/b, then click bNext/b./divdivbr //divdiv11. Click bFinish/b. (Guess what, this button lies too - we're not finished yet)./divdivbr //divdiv12. On the next screen, select b(o) Install this Plug-in/b /divdivThis is another crazy default because it defaults to do not install the plug-in. If you weren't paying attention, you'd have to start all over again - I've been there before... more than once./divdivClick bok/b./divdivbr //divdiv13. Watch Bar Graph/divdivbr //divdiv14. Restart the Notes Client/divdivbr //divdiv15. I got this lovely message when the client restarted /divdivbFailed to login/b/divdivbCLFRJ0010E/b/divdivI don't know what it means but it went away and hasn't come back, so hopefully it's nothing to do with the install procedure./divdivbr //divdivbr //divdiv16. In my installation, this was where I made a big mess. I kept expecting to see a sidebar plug-in and when it wasn't there, I tried reinstalling. Don't do this. It's not the correct procedure. :-)/div/divdivbr //divdivClick on your Open menu and hopefully you'll see a Document Management option./divdivbr //divdivDon't click it... I didn't say to click it./divdivbr //divdivIf you did, you'll probably get an error message about the root directory when you first start the application. Don't worry, it's alright. Just click ok. Then close the Document Management window./divdivbr //divdiv17. From the Lotus Notes Menu, click bFile, Preferences/b. Look for a Preference called bDocument Management/b and click on that./divdivbr //divdiv18. Choose a folder to manage and click bOk/b./divdivbr //divdiv19. I think the document management app opens up automatically after this but if not, click Open and then Document Management./divdivbr //divdivIf you've got some ODT documents, you might want to drop them in the folder you nominated and then click Refresh. You'll then be able to work with them in the document management facility./divdivbr //divdivYou can also import files and categories (folders) - and everything seems to be updated on the server's file shares in real-time. Now that I've had a quick play, I'll point to something bigger./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17199472-1281760323322011777?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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