OpenWysiwyg is the ultimate cross-browser “textarea” replacement, which can quickly turn any textarea into a powerful WYSIWYG editor with just a few simple lines of code. OpenWysiwyg is a LGPL product of OpenWebWare which is now ported to Notes/Domino, independant of the originating company.
I received an email from Julian Robichaux and Bruce Elgort this afternoon:
Not sure what/who the information source was, but the quote below came from the TLCC Newsletter that was in my e-mail inbox this morning:
7. Notes 7.0.2 will have a “memory stick” option
Version 7.0.2 of Notes (due out in September) will have an option to allow installation of the Notes client on a memory stick. This will allow you to carry around the Notes client and your databases with you and simply plug the stick into any computer and have your Notes client up and running. The Notes client software is all installed on the memory stick so no software is required on the computer’s hard drive. At the moment, support is only planned for the Notes client, not the Designer or Administrator clients. This new feature is called Lotus Notes Nomad.
… so schreibt das heute der Spiegel. Hmm, ich hätte da eine Idee.
Dear Bill,
please drop me an email and I’ll send you my account information.
kind regards
Ulrich Krause
Do you want to stop changing view properties one at a time? Or, want to manage several column formulas at once, or change the properties of all your views (i.e. row colors etc…). If you don’t want to manually change each view or column yourself, then viewEZ is the tool you are looking for.
As I posted before, IBM does not provide us with a method to insert content from one RichTextItem to another RichTextItem. I’m not talking about AppendRTItem … And it seems that nobody in the Notes Community has a solution for this.
Oh, yes, Ben Langhinrichs has a solution. But I’m not talking ’bout MIDAS. I did some research today and I think that it could be done using native Notes. Keywords are: DXLExporter, DXLImporter, Stream, string operations.
Using native Notes capabilities, I am able to replace a “TAG” with content of the according RTItem from another document.
… To be continued 🙂
For german native speakers, there is a posting on atnotes.de for this topic
Have you ever tried to INSERT a RichTextItem into an existing RichTextItem instead of appending it ?
Let’s see how we could accomplish this. Actually there is no explicit method in the NotesRichText class to insert an item, but let’s see what the AppendRTItem method could do for us.
Oh, YES, here it is … right from the designer help ( version 6.5.1 ):
Usage
By default the insertion occurs at the end of the item. You can change the insertion point with BeginInsert and EndInsert.
This is easy, here is the code
Dim ses As New notessession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim col As notesdocumentcollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim rtitem2 As NotesRichTextItem
Dim rtitem1 As NotesRichTextItem
Dim rtnav As NotesRichTextNavigator
Set db=ses.CurrentDatabase
Set col=db.unprocesseddocuments
Set doc=col.GetFirstDocument
Set rtitem1 = doc.getfirstitem("Body")
Set rtitem2 = doc.getfirstitem("RTF")
Set rtnav = rtitem.CreateNavigator
Call rtnav.FindNthElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTPARAGRAPH,1)
Call rtitem1.BeginInsert(rtnav)
Call rtitem1.addnewline(1)
Call rtitem1.AppendRTItem(rtitem2)
Call rtitem1.EndInsert
Call doc.save(True, True)
But what is this ? When you execute the code you’ll get an error message: “Method is not available.”
Hmm, do a search on the Lotus Notes KnowledgeBase and you’ll find this entry. And you can see in the document that there is an SPR# LGAA5N6FHT. But , huuuh, what is that ?
and was determined not to be a software problem. Notes and Domino are functioning as designed.
Does the documentation does not implies that it IS possible ? OK, it takes some time to code a new function and do all the quality stuff ( the KB document ist from the year 2004 as well as the mentioned SPR ) . Maybe they built it into the Notes 7 codestream.
But, NO WAY !!! Instead of having it got to work they just changed the designer help.
Usage
The insertion occurs at the end of the item. AppendRTItem cannot be called after BeginInsert.
IBM. please don’t tell me that ist is not possible to build this function !!! You’ve had 2 years. Instead of NEW classes and methods and stuff you should rather finish the coding of already intended methods in existing classes.
If you are not able to do the coding, please ask Ben Langhinrichs. He is able to solve the problem. And inserting RTItems the same way as inserting pure text after BeginInsert is a function that is needed, indeed.
I’ll hope tha some of the new guys at IBM will listen to the customers needs.
iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly.
The iText classes are very useful for people who need to generate read-only, platform independent documents containing text, lists, tables and images. The library is especially useful in combination with Java(TM) technology-based Servlets: The look and feel of HTML is browser dependent; with iText and PDF you can control exactly how your servlet’s output will look.
iText requires JDK 1.4. It’s available for free under a multiple license: MPL and LGPL.
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Bad code ? What do you think ? …
on error goto there
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.' some code
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End If
End If
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. ' more Code, no exit function so far
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there:
If Err > 0 Then
Call l.LogAction("Error in some sub " & Cstr(Err) & " " & Error$ )
Resume outa_here
End If
outa_here:
End Function
another example
ads = doc.size
If ads = "" Then ads = "0"
If Ccur(ads/1024) > Ccur(mailsize) Then
This is not Scary Movie #n but the Real Life …
Watch the first trailer of TITANIC II. This will be the next blockbuster in cinemas around the world.
Domingo is a simple, consistent, object-oriented easy-to-use interface to the Lotus Notes/Domino Java-API.
f you are a Lotus-Script developer and currently learning Java, with domingo you can access Lotus Notes/Domino as easy as with Lotus-Script. Here are some other important reasons:
* No recycling of notes objects needed at all.
* You donot have to recycle any notes objects!
* Just one more time: recycling of all notes objects is completely handled by domingo!
* exception handling is almost not necessary, but optionally possible
* domingo comes with JavaDoc that can be used in-place in your favorite development environment
* Easy access to the Notes client in Java from outside of the Notes client.
* Stable access to Lotus Domino from a J2EE Web-Application server
public class AgentContext extends DAgentBase {
public void main() {
DDocument doc = getDSession().getAgentContext().getDocumentContext();
// do something with the document
doc.save();
}
}
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This is a BETA version of the Lotus Notes / Domino Import Utility developed by AGE Computer Consultancy.
Da wird der sogenannte “Ehrenmord” mit einem dem Tatbestand nicht angemessenem Urteil gesühnt, wir sind aber aufgrund unserer verquerten Gesetze nicht in der Lage, integrationsunwillige Personen ohne grosse Umstände auÃ?er Landes zu schaffen.
Warum lassen wir es zu, daÃ? unsere Werte dermaÃ?en mit FüÃ?en getreten werden ? Haben wir keine Ehre ??
A new version of !!HELP!! is coming soon. ( V. 1.5.1 )
I guess we will release the new version in two weeks from now on. Thomas added a lot of new functions and bug fixes.
I myself totally redesigned the escalation engine. The whole set of design elements for the escalation engine will be available for download as soon as !!HELP!! 1.5.1 has been released.
You then can use the engine in your own applications.
A handful of design elements will enable your application to send ( multi lingual ) notifications about escalated documents. 
Thomas Schulte today released the first version of !!DRIVER!! on OpenNTF.org. !!DRIVER!! is one of a bunch of databases to work together with !!HELP!!. There will be a !!SYSTEM!! db in the very next future.
based on the work done for !!HELP!!, !!SYSTEM!! targets the soft and hardware inventory parts of a companies helpdesk. It is multilanguage enabled the same way !!Help!! is and shares some of the basic functions as EscalationHandling or configurable InputValidation or configurable menues
With this database you can
– inventarize all your computer systems.
– create new systems based on systemtemplates
– create systemtemplates based on an active system
– add or remove single components to a system while the system is active
– have systems as active systems or systems in store
– link systems to one or more people or department based on a defineable connection to any notes database where your organisation structure resides (to get a decent booking solution later on)In summary you can catch the whole lifecycle of systems you use in your database.
And we will introduce !!HEUREKA!!; the Knowledge- and Solution database for !!HELP!!.
There’ll be a lot of things to SnT; not only on Thursday …
( … einer von vielen seiner Art )
Ein Knirps wirft eine leere Plastikflasche, ein anderer schmeiÃ?t einer erwachsenen Frau, die vor dem Zaun steht, ein arabisches Schimpfwort an den Kopf. “Hurentochter”, hat er gesagt.
Da spuckt sie ihm ins Gesicht. Willkommen an der Rütli-Schule.
A funny song that sings the praises of System Administrators.
Written by Wes Borg of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
I wonder if IBM’s project WANDA really exists. It has been announced at the Opening General Session ( Min 41:00 ) of Lotusphere2006.
Was it Ken Bisconti showing an USB-Key to the audience ?
There have been a lot of bloggers sitting in the first row.
If I were Mike Rodin, I’d step down from the stage to those bloggers and have plugged in the key to a randomly choosen computer and start the Notes Client from the thumb.
Nothing like this happens …
I guess, WANDA is Vaporware
Craig Schumann today published a new version of his great application.
The biggest deal with this new version of Script Browser is that it now supports members and variables in the tree.
