This seminar is intended to provide you with an understanding of the new collaboration capabilities available in the cloud, what is available in the latest Notes & Domino 8.5 version and how the upgrade will work in your environment.
One of the most downloaded items from the resources page on pmooney.net over the years has been the mail file ACL changing tool (originally blogged here). Today a person that downloaded it decided to give something back with updates.
Changes:
- my script logs into an OpenNTF-Log-Database –> otherwise you get the error “Field is too large”
- the ACL will be saved only if the ACL has changed
- the servername included in the configdoc will be used (instead of using the current server)
- I have changed the data type for the counter from “integer” to “long” –> otherwise the script will show the error “buffer overflow” (if the server has saved more than 32767 databases)
- In my script, only databases in the specified directory are updated –> if you enter “mail” in your script, the directories with the name “mail”, “mail1″, “mail-archive” will be changed
Download version 0.3 from resources. Thank you very much Sebastian Becker.
Still not implemented in the mail file. Still causing issues on customer sites. Still easy to fix.
Gifts from the IBM Champion programme. Thank you Joyce Davis and the rest of the team.
A new blog
Simply stated, I’m going to build a mobile app for a notes database. I’m going to start with a pretty complex set of databases and bring them to a mobile phone. My goals and materials should be pretty typical for what most people are likely to have lying around – Lotus Notes db that is very old (10+years), very complex (hundres of views, forms and fields), and very large (1 gig+). The goal will be to distill the business functions down to a level that makes sense for a mobile version of that app, yet still provides the user with what they need. I’m also going to try 3 different approaches to the problem and explore the pluses and minuses of each. The first approach will be to work with out of the box stuff – ie XPages.
Interesting. Go here.
Posting this as a 9 year blogger and observer of the yellow bubble. I don’t like reactionary blog posts either, so please feel free to ignore and skip by.
It seems to me that the most “social” and community orientated people have left IBM/Lotus.
Chris Blatnick, Darren Adams, Tim Clark, Mary Beth Raven, Alan Lepofsky, Kathleen McGivney. The list goes on. I am happy for all of them as they have moved on to bigger and better things. IBM, the list of people that get standing ovations, thanked, recognised publicly and appreciated by the community (that consists of Business Partners and customers) grows thin.
I’m happy for everyone moving on. I’m sure IBM replace the people with new blood that will continue internal “business as usual”. My question is, who will replace them in the public “social” world?
A face is the cheapest form of marketing.
And yes, I most likely will regret posting this later.
A customer has asked me to evaluate a few project management tools with the end-goal of them selecting one with my assistance. Some basic conditions:
Over the years I have tried a few with various levels of success. Do any readers have recommendations on products to evaluate?
You can now click on OK to make the startup “loading” picture disappear. Useful while you are waiting the x seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks for the client to load.
Update: This is looking like an OSX Lion feature, not a Notes 8.5.3 feature. Verified by two different sources using OSX Lion and Notes 8.5.x (not 8.5.3). This leads to two points:
1. What the hell is OSX Lion doing that for? This may not be a bad thing in this particular case, but it looks a bit product intrusive?
2. IBM, I apologise for blaming the 8.5.3 beta. Consider yourself forgiven for IBM Learning Management Server (well, almost).
In between customer meetings in London this week, I will be heading to Oslo to present at the Norwegian Lotus User Group event. It is a new one for me, as I had to sadly cancel my attendance last year. On the Thursday morning I will be presenting the Lotusphere 2011 Adminblast presentation and then a separate session on clustering. Oh yes, and I get to take my first Ryanair flight this year! Joy.
