Day: March 11, 2010

tmpProposedStartTime_Actual – Wrong datatype

Got a phone call from one of my users. He told me that he is not able to accept an ivitation for a meeting. Instead the following error message occurs when he tries to open the document from his inbox.

I searched the KnowledgeBase but could not find any hint, how to solve the problem. If you google for “tmpProposedStartTime_Actual” you only get two hits.

tmpProposedStartTime_Actual is a computed for display field on the (Notice) form.

The field formula references to some fields starting with “new”. I opened the document with ScanEZ and found that none of these fields contain any value ( for whatever reason ).

I deleted the fields from the document and the user was able to open the invitation.


Entwicklercamp 2010 – Day 3

As usual, the conference started at 8:30 with SpeedAgendaing and a short briefing.

I had to go and setup my environment for my presentation about “C/C++ API for Beginners” before all the speakers had shown their slides to give the audience an impression, what the session is about.

My session went well and I finished talking one minute before time. I got good response from the audience. I must admit that I totally forgot to do the demoes on the Linux client to show that the code would not only work on Windooze. Sorry for that …

After my session I attended Tim Pistor‘s presentation about Webservices. It was Tim’s first appearence as a speaker. He was a bit nervous and went thru the slides and demo code like a whirlwind.

Do you know that you even can brew coffee with Notes??  Tim and his “assistant” Werner Motzet had pimped a “Senseo” to show how you can get a cup of coffee or two using Lotus Notes and webservices. Great job, guys.

After lunch, Niklas Heidloff was on stage for the CGS. He demonstrated 20 projects, widgets and gadgets from OpenNTF in 60 minutes. Did you already watch the video he has taken during the conference asking for a statement about OpenNTF?

It was a great conference and crowded like never before. The team around Rudi again did a professional job running the conference. And so did the hotel staff.

Julian Buss wrapped up his impressions here ( in german ).