I have been trying to finish this for a couple of weeks in my free time (did I say free time?)... I have some code fragments for that and I need to combine them all.
Anyway, This is a very simple database, But it will be very useful for me and I hope for others... Before going forward, I need some feedback about it. The database is called TestCopier. The purpose of this application is to create test/development databases from production ones. The following screen shows a preview.
Some features in my mind:
- Percentage is important, but it's not the first X%. There is a randomizing algorithm to find different sets each run. - The copied documents will have the exact same UNID with the source. However, the database will have different replica id. - I'm planning to use Lotusscript, but it might be changed. - User can save this profile for future uses. - Delete attachments in copied docs would be possible (by David Leedy).
Now there are more complicated possibilities:
- Instead of forms, I can use only formulas. So it would be more flexible but we will lose "copy the rest" feature. - Cross key lookups (by Nathan): Pickup some field values from, say, Customer docs and lookup them in some view (e.g. get selected customers' order documents). - Run some kind of formula to profile documents to change profile document values in test databases. So you can preserve those changes each time you need it. - Run some kind of formula to make changes every document, so you can alter some server/DB/Name references for copied documents.
Completely unacceptable ’Theft’ by LotusLearns company...
Sat, Apr 21st 2012 3:10a Serdar Basegmez I am blogging for more than two years. It's like a part-time job. I am doing this sacrificing my 'life' and 'time'. Many people attribute me and this is a great pleasure... But sharing my ideas or knowledge on the WEB doesn't mean that people can steal them 'COMPLETELY' without my approval even with an attribution! Yes, I have used the word "stealing" on purpose. Because this is what LotusLearns.com is doing! Kelley Smith, CEO of this company claims that she is doing this for Afr [read] Keywords: ntf
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OpenSearch functionality for XPages.info...
Mon, Apr 16th 2012 3:28a Serdar Basegmez Today we have added a very simple feature to XPages.info site. It provides an integrated search functionality to be used with browsers. Here how to use it: For Chrome: 1. Open xpages.info site once. 2. Close your browser, reopen and at the address bar, start writing "xpages". Depending on how frequent you are using xpages.info, it will suggest the address in the bar. For me, "x" character is enough :) 3. Now you see a new instruction in the address bar: "Press Tab to search [read] Keywords: xpages community
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"Dotless i", toLowerCase and toUpperCase functions: Use responsibly!
Thu, Apr 5th 2012 10:33a Serdar Basegmez "Dotless i" problem is the most profitable area in my revenue stream :) Since the beginning of my career, I found and isolated dozens of bugs simply related to 'dotless-i'. I have already blogged about it couple of times, but let me sum up the problem. There are Turkish characters in our language, as in many others. But two exceptional cases are "ğ" (curved g) and "ı/İ" (dotless-i/dotted-I) characters. The first one is a whole different story that some linguistic experts sugg [read] Keywords: lotus
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Going to XPages? Discover ’Disabilities-based’ development...
Fri, Mar 23rd 2012 3:36a Serdar Basegmez Yesterday, I presented at LUGTR XPages Workshop. We have heavily concentrated on transition to XPages development from traditional Domino programming. I am hearing a very common sentence more and more: "Damn! I can't even design a very very simple thing on XPages! Because of that, I'm not going to XPages..." There are many reasons that people with traditional Domino application development background fail in XPages. However this "XPages sucks" literature is not even close to those [read] Keywords: domino
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My First Article on The View is online...
Fri, Mar 9th 2012 1:41a Serdar Basegmez My first article "Custom Controls — Basic Concepts and Techniques for Getting Started" has been published on The View magazine. This is the beginning of a series of articles about custom controls. In the first part, I have focused on differences between custom controls and subforms, basic usage of custom control properties and some features around reusability. You may follow the link above to read the article if you are subscribed to The View magazine. I have been blogging for more t [read] Keywords: blogging
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More XPages error-fun...
Thu, Feb 23rd 2012 4:04p Serdar Basegmez I really enjoy debugging mysterious error messages from XPages... Today, it's "field in note has wrong datatype": I have experienced this problem upon a question from my client. Save button (which only submits the form) results in this error. After analyzing the page (analyze=delete all elements except the button) I decided that XPages elements have nothing to do with the problem. It was computing the document before saving, so that must be the problem. Indeed, I analyzed the form ( [read] Keywords: notes
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Googled my own blog... Again!
Thu, Feb 23rd 2012 3:12p Serdar Basegmez It happened again... I was dealing with a Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 upgrade today at the customer site. I had this annoying error while upgrading Media Manager: "Not enough storage is available to process this command" I googled and browsed to my blog entry. This is a very common story for many bloggers. Some of us keeping blog as a personal memory. The only difference from others, we can use Google for our own notebooks :) BTW, I couldn't solve my issue this time. Because, in fact, I d [read] Keywords: ibm
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We need an Ultimate Connector for Everything...
Mon, Feb 20th 2012 1:44a Serdar Basegmez Did you see that old advertisement video from IBM? OK, Universal Adapter does not exist. But it was a funny video :) Anyway, it wasn't my topic. We have several content repositories within different IBM products. Connections (and LotusLive of course) has Files, Quickr (for Portal or for Domino) has Document Libraries, Domino has Teamroom, FileNet has Files again... The list goes like this. So far, we have different connectors for most of these repositories. I think it's the tim [read] Keywords: connections
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XSnippets Upgrade: Commenting
Tue, Feb 14th 2012 5:04a Serdar Basegmez As Niklas blogged, we added a new improvement on XSnippets. At the recent version, registered users can add comments to snippets. A couple of months ago, I blogged about rating update on XSnippets. In a similar way, I also developed commenting within xInvolve Custom Control. The recent version (released on OpenNTF) contains single control for commenting and rating. I have decided to seperate these two functions to improve usability. Beta version of rating control has been deployed before. [read] Keywords: connections
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