10/18/2022

Questions and Answers From October, 2022 Webinar

This blog presents the questions from the October OpenNTF webinar and their answers from our speakers. Thanks for all the great questions!


To begin, here is the links to the support page where you can download the slides and watch the video.


Q For advanced props, INI-settings: I assume that needs to be set server side, right?
A No, these settings would go in each client's notes.ini file. You could push these values out using Domino policies, panagenda MarvelClient, or your favorite notes.ini manipulation tool.
Q what if e.g. searching for profile docs is disabled via ini but user tries to use that feature on a local replica?
A It's an all-or-nothing setting. If you set AdvProp_ProfileMenuVisible=0 the user won't get the profile docs menu for any databases.
Q With the document dialog properties does it list all the fields in a document rather than the 255 fields limitation in the standard small document properties box - we have documents with over 1000 fields - only being able to check the first 1/4 of them is limiting ........
A That's an excellent question, I don't know! I don't have any documents available to test with that many fields, but in theory there shouldn't be a limit. I'm just using standard Notes API calls to get and read all the fields in a document.
Q Is it possible to add the number of values in the field list (interesting for multivalue fields).
A I'll add that to my list as a feature request. :)

Answers by Julian Robichaux. Edited by Howard Greenberg.


10/04/2022

Announcing the OpenNTF Board of Directors for 2022-23

We are pleased to announce the new OpenNTF board. We have four Member Directors who still have one year on their tenure:
Dan Dumont
Paul Withers
Oliver Busse
Graham Acres

The following Member Directors have been elected to a two-year tenure starting this year:
Doug Robinson
Jesse Gallagher
Serdar Basegmez
Heiko Voigt
Kim Greene
The following Contributor Directors have been elected for a year:
Roberto Boccadoro
Howard Greenberg
Chris Bekas

We are thankful for the work of our former chairman Christian Güdemann and fellow board member Adam Foster. The new board will take up their positions for the first board meeting on 12th October, when we will elect the Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary positions for the coming year.

10/03/2022

October OpenNTF Webinar: Advanced Properties, CompareDBs Reports Tool, Core Domino AppDev Tools in V12

Our October webinar will focus on updates to DQL (Domino Query Language) and two very useful tools for developers and admins.

The Document Properties plugin that shipped with Notes 12.0.1 gave us something we all wanted for a long time: a document properties dialog that was resizeable, sortable, and searchable. But there's so much more! Julian Robichaux from panagenda created this plugin, and he will give you a whirlwind tour of the various features, functions, and install options (even on older Notes clients) -- you can even ask for new features!

The CompareDBs Reports tool, released with the 12.0.1 Domino server, has been used internally at HCL to conduct code reviews and record version differences of Domino applications. It contains tooling to produce succinct reports of differences, generate complete database synopsis, and assist in confirming translations by highlighting strings in all code. This presentation by Andre Guirard is a brief review and demo of the application’s features.

John Curtis from HCL will give us an update on Core Domino Application Development. With 12.01, core Domino gained 1) the ability to create views from data in different databases, 2) support of Formula Language within DQL and 3) means to store and retrieve document sets at sub-millisecond speed. These features, and those in 12.02 and 12.03 will be demonstrated to show the progressive set of functionality that's been delivered and presently in development to help Domino Application Developers supply increasing value to their customers.

This webinar will take place on Thursday, October 13, 2022, at 11 AM (New York Time) to 12:30 PM.

To register for this webinar, go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3181085477392499216

You can also access information about and recordings of all of our webinars at https://openntf.org/webinars