Basics
Program name: $COMPACT.EXE
Command line: -S 5
Server to run on: ServerName/Domain
Comments: Compact databases with more than 5 percent whitespace.

Schedule
Enabled/disabled: ENABLED
Run at times: 10:10 PM each day
Repeat interval of: 0 minutes
Days of week: Wed, Sat

Note that if you are running DAOS in Domino 8.x+, you'll have to add the -B flag for the database to shrink free space properly.

What Virus scanning packages are available for Notes?

McAfee's GroupShield and GroupScan (includes AIX)
Trend Micro's ScanMail for Lotus Notes (includes AIX support)
Group-WG's WatchDog
Cheyenne's InnocuLAN for Notes
Symantec's Norton Antivirus for Notes (includes Unix, AS/400 and S/390; Linux soon)
Command AntiVirus for Lotus Notes
Panda AntiVirus for Lotus Notes
Sophos Mail Monitor
Die Avast! Domino Edition
Kaspersky AntiVirus (includes Linux)
ESET's NOD32 for Lotus Domino

What can be done to optimize database performance?

1. Don't have too many views - each time you change/add a document Notes will need to update every appropriate view.

2. Keep views simple - more columns means more calculation. It gets worse if the columns are sorted and worse still if the columns are categorized.

3. Don't use @Today or @Now in selection formulas - the views will never be up to date and the server will be forever recalculating them. If you need to use today's date in a selection formula then have a background macro running each day to set an environment variable in the server's notes.ini and reference this.

4. If you want to display compound information in a view column from multiple fields then calculate it in a hidden document field. The column should then reference this single field rather than carrying out the calculation.

5. To avoid the @DBColumns/@DBLookups used to generate keyword lists, etc.,
being generated at read time use something like:

@If(@IsDocBeingLoaded & !@IsNewDoc; @Unavailable; @DbColumn(""; ""; "By _Category (Main View)"))

for the formula. Editing documents will take just as long but document readers will notice a big improvement. The example above is from a keyword format formula.

6. Use column numbers not field names for lookups

7. If you are doing lots of lookups to multiple columns in a single view then append all of the data in a single column with a unique delimiter string and do a single lookup. The value returned can then be parsed with @Left/@Right/@Mid or @Explode to give you the separate field values.

8. Put 64 Mb of RAM in the server and push the buffer pool sizes to their limits. This is documented in the Knowledge Base.

An IBM Redbook is also available: Performance Considerations for Domino Applications.

A developerWorks article is also available: Troubleshooting Application Performance

How do you make a list of all groups a person is in?

Create view in the NAB with a selection formula of "Select (Form = "Group").
Add the field 'Members' in first column.
In the propeties box for the first column, select sorting type 'categorized' and select 'show multiple values as separate entries'.
In the second column, put the field 'ListName'.

This is not recursive, so it won't show a person in a nested group.

An alternative way (from chowell@epd.renold.com) is to:
1) Load the Name & Address Book D/Base and select the "Groups" view
2) Enable the Search Bar (View, Search Bar) - the NAB has to be full text indexed
3) Key in the name of the person you are seeking - the Groups of which they are a member are identified in the view
or use the search string:

  FIELD Members contains "username or groupname"

so you avoid false hits on the ListOwner and LocalAdmin fields.

And another way using the Notes API from agorlenko@manu.com but this only works on R5+:

Declare Function NSFBuildNamesList Lib "NNOTES" Alias "NSFBuildNamesList" _
( Byval S As String, Byval F As Long, hNL As Long) As Integer

Declare Function OSLockObject Lib "NNOTES" Alias "OSLockObject" _
( Byval H As Long) As Long

Declare Sub OSUnlockObject Lib "NNOTES" Alias "OSUnlockObject" _
( Byval H As Long)

Declare Function OSMemFree Lib "NNOTES" Alias "OSMemFree" _
( Byval Handle As Long) As Integer

Declare Function ReadInteger Lib "MSVCRT" Alias "memcpy" _
( N As Integer, Byval P As Long, Byval B As Long) As Long

Declare Function ReadString Lib "MSVCRT" Alias "memcpy" _
( Byval S As String, Byval P As Long, Byval B As Long) As Long

Sub Initialize
        Dim session As New NotesSession
 
        Dim x As String
        Dim m As String
        Dim p As Integer
        Dim I As Integer
        Dim n As Integer
        Dim hNL As Long
        Dim GroupCount List As Integer
        Dim a As String
        Dim abook As NotesDatabase
        Dim aview As NotesView
        Dim doc As NotesDocument
        On Error Goto oops
        Set abook = session.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf")
        Set aview = abook.GetView("People")
        Set doc = aview.GetFirstDocument
        Do Until doc Is Nothing
 
 
                a = doc.FullName(0) 
 
         ' Get Names List handle (fails on R4)
 
                'On Error Resume Next
                NSFBuildNamesList a$, 0, hNL
                'On Error Goto 0
                If hNL = 0 Then
                        Print "Failed"
                        Exit Sub
                End If
 
  ' Get memory pointer
                Dim pNL As Long
                pNL = OSLockObject(hNL)
 
  ' Get number of entries, skip to first entry
                ReadInteger n%, pNL, 2
                pNL = pNL + 14
 
  ' Read the entries
                For i% = 1 To n%
                        x$ = String$(256, " ")
                        ReadString x$, pNL, 256
                        p% = Instr(x$, Chr$(0))
                        pNL = pNL + p%
                        If Not p% = 0 Then x$ = Left$(x$, p% - 1)

  ' each group is listed in x$ in this loop

                Next
 
  ' Discard the Names List
                OSUnlockObject hNL
                OSMemFree hNL
                'Exit Do
                Set doc=aview.GetNextDocument(doc)
        Loop

Exit Sub

How can you have multiple users on one workstation?

Each user has to have a separate notes.ini file and desktop.dsk file. There is a freeware utility called SmartSwitcher that does all this for you and provides a nice user interface. It can be picked up by clicking [ftp] here. This only works for Notes 3.x

A few settings (like workspace textured background) are not preserved for Notes 4.x users in SmartSwitcher. There is a commercial utility named MultiUser Logon Utility from Rein&McBride that does handle Notes 4.x.

Another commercial utility that reads the ID files from a database is SwitchID from Sollazzo Consulting.

You can also use location documents in Notes 4.x and higher. Important caveats: 1) users share the same desktop so one user can rearrange icons/bookmarks and totally confuse the other users, 2) they will get false "you have new mail" indications, and 3) the user ID files for all the users will be in one location.

Here are some tips from Laurence Wagner (lwagn2@dwp.ci.la.ca.us) on how to do this:

Do a normal install for the first user, then do the following:
1. Change the User Preferences
Select File / Tools / User Preferences from the menu.
In the Navigator panel, with icons labeled "Basics, International, Mail, and Ports", click on Basics.
There are four check boxes to the immediate right of the Basics icon. Select the box labeled "Prompt for location".
Now when Notes is re-started, it will prompt the user to select a named location document. The original location documents given with Notes are named for a variety of network connections that these users will not need to use, but do not delete them.

2. Copying the Notes ID files to the Workstation
Get these files from your Notes admin. These can go to the Notes\Data directory or a network drive, as long as it will be available to your users. Once on the workstation, each person should log in and reset their password from the default value. This can be done after the location documents are created for each person.

3. Add an action button, labeled "Make Location Doc", to the People view of the LADWP Name and Address Book. Switch to the user's ID file before you run this. The code for the button is as follows:

Sub Click(Source As Button)
  Dim session As New Notessession
  Dim notesdirectory As String
  notesdirectory = session.GetEnvironmentString( "Directory", True)
  Dim keyfilename As String
  keyfilename = session.GetEnvironmentString( "KeyFilename" , True)
  Dim whois As String, realwho As String
  Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace
  Dim doc As NotesUIDocument
  Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument
  Set uidoc = workspace.EditDocument(False)
  Dim item As NotesItem
  Dim first As String, last As String, mailserver As String, mailfile As String
  Dim mailserver1 As String, mailfile1 As String
  Dim short As String
  Dim short1 As String
  Dim udir As String
  Dim full As String
  Dim ppass As String
  Dim thisdb As NotesDatabase

  whois = session.CommonUserName
  realwho = session.UserName
  Set thisdb = session.CurrentDatabase
  Set uidoc = workspace.EditDocument(False)
  first = uidoc.FieldGetText("FirstName")
  last = uidoc.FieldGetText("LastName")
  short = uidoc.FieldGetText("ShortName")
  mailfile = uidoc.FieldGetText("MailFile")
  spaceposition = Instr(1,mailfile, "\")
  short = Mid( mailfile, spaceposition + 1)
  mailfile1 = "mail\\" + short
  mailserver = uidoc.FieldGetText("MailServer")
  If first <> "" Then
    full = first + " " + last
  Else
    full = last
  End If
  Call uidoc.Close
  Print "got Person data"

'  Build new rec
'
  Set uidoc = workspace.ComposeDocument ( "", "names.nsf", "Location" )
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Name",full)
  udir = notesdirectory
  short1 = keyfilename
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Userid", udir + "\" + short1)
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Domain","LADWP")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("DST","1")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Enabled","0")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("NameLookupPref","2")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("ExhaustiveNameLookup","1")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Images","0")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("LocationType","0")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("MailFile", mailfile)
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("MailServer", mailserver)
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("Source","*")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("TimeZone","8")
  Call uidoc.FieldSetText("WebRetriever","Netscape Navigator")
  Call uidoc.Save
  Call uidoc.Close
'
'     Add the mail database to the workspace
'
  If whois = full Then
    spaceposition = Instr(1, mailserver, "/")
    If spaceposition = 0 Then
      spaceposition = 30
    End If
    mailserver1 = Left$( mailserver, spaceposition - 1)
    Call workspace.AddDatabase( mailserver1 , mailfile1 )
    Messagebox "the mail database for: " & full & Chr(10)  & " has been added to the workspace, and " & Chr(10) & "Location
Document added to Address Book"
  Else
    Messagebox "Location Document for: " & full & " added to Personal Address Book"
  End If
End Sub

A company called DNI Systems makes a workstation sharing solution called Notes Profiler. It accomodates roaming users.

Note that this is no longer necessary as of Notes 6.01. Notes 6.01 supports roaming users so their Notes desktops go with them to each machine. It also supports multiuser installs of the Notes client on a single machine so each logged on user doesn't have to install their own separate copy of Notes and waste disk space.

Can you run console commands from a server program document?

From kanellopoulos@byte.gr who found it in the notes.net discussion:

This Win32 program is used in program docs to execute any console command on schedule such as:

  Tell http restart
  Show tasks

Example:

  Program name:     nconsole.exe
  Command line:     SERVER/ACME "tell smtpmta compact all"
  Server to run on: SERVER/ACME

- nConsole.exe

You also have to have the server name in the Administrator section of the server document in the name and address book.

What are .IIB files?

These files are generated by the Lotus Incremental Installer. They are backups of the files that the Incremental Installer changed. You can delete these files if you are satisfied with the incremental upgrade. If not, run the same Incremental Installer again and it will ask if you want to uninstall the upgrade.

Note: If you're running a CF incremental, do *not* delete the IIB files. When Lotus releases another normal incremental, it will try backing out the CF incremental by using the IIB files; if they don't exist, the incremental will fail.

How do you get the server to recognize changes to groups immediately?
From Daniel Nashed:
"show nlcache" gives you the current status of the NameLookup Cache
"show nlcache reset" reset the NameLookup Cache

Can you run SpamAssassin on a Notes server?
This only works on Win32 systems and requires the use of a Before Mail Arrives agent and a COM object so it may not be that scaleable:
http://www.projectlounge.com/QuickPlace/spamassassin/Main.nsf

Can Domino prevent MS viruses from getting into user's mailboxes?
In Domino 6.x, you can define a Mail Rule in your Messaging Configuration that lets the server reject any SMTP mail that contains a specific filename or extension. In Domino 5.x, you had to use a pre-delivery agent to do this, but this was after the mail was accepted into the mail routing system.

How do you optimize presentations given with Sametime?

From Carl Tyler:

Here are my hints and tips for giving a good presentation over Sametime:
If your audience are running on average screens with a resolution of 1024x768, don't run your screen at 1024x768, run your screen at 800x600, this has a couple of benefits, if you do a presentation or screenshare it all fits on their screen without them having to do a resize or hit the fit to screen button (which slows down performance)
Reduce your colour depth, Don't leave your screen in 32bit colour mode, it has a huge impact on performance, Consider 16bit the maximum to use.
Avoid Presentations with animations, I have yet to see a presentation with animation from anyone where it adds value and isn't a distraction, and the best that happens in a Sametime or even WebEx meeting is it slows things down.
Turn of any fancy Windows desktop image, if it has lots of complexity and lots of colours it will take longer to send it across.
Choose the right presentation type, if the people you are presenting to are not going to interact then choose a broadcast meeting and not a collaboration meeting for example.
Turn off the features you don't need. If you're not going to use polling, web page push, or polling etc. turn them off.
Have a test meeting running all the time, when you send someone the URL to a future meeting, send them the URL to the test meeting asking them to test their connection, and browser capabilities before hand etc.
Enable Tunneling on the Sametime server, if their firewall has open ports then great, if not then typically the tunneling can get through.
Don't bother using the current Audio/Video capabilities, great in a demo or a 1-1 presentation, but terrible in pretty much every other usage scenario.
Avoid using the mouse or dragging windows around too much, Remember how Sametime draws it screen, it's split into 9 squares, 3 across and 3 down, if something changes in a single box it sends down the data for that single box, if you change something across a large area of the screen then every box that contains something that has to be changed has to be sent across.
If demonstrating Notes, and using the Workspace, turn off the textured workspace, it has a huge impact on screenshare performance.

And from Rob Boccadoro:
Do not use screensharing to share your Freelance or Powerpoint. Use the whiteboard rather than share your screen with Freelance running so you can conserve bandwidth.

How do you set up S/MIME?
There is a good article on Developerworks that describes the setup process and tradeoffs: "Lessons in secure messaging using Domino 6".

Why does a Mail Rule seem to keep running even after it's deleted?
In a user's mail file, they should be disabling a mail rule before deleting it. That's because the actual ruleset lives in the CalendarProfile document and you have to update this ruleset by using the enable/disable buttons in the mail rule view. To get rid of an old rule that is still running, add a new rule, then use the view buttons to enable/disable it. Then delete the rule and all rules should be disabled.

Can users recall messages they've sent?

Gregg Eldred provided the nice agent below to do this. Caveats are that the user must ask an administrator to run the agent and the administrators have to have access to everyone's mail file. A copy of the sent message must be selected for the agent to run on:

Sub Initialize
Code: Dim db As NotesDatabase, mailDb As NotesDatabase
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim dc As NotesDocumentcollection
Dim notesdbdir As New NotesDbDirectory("mailserver/ou")
Dim mailDoc As NotesDocument
Dim thisLog As NotesLog
counter = 0

 '//evaluate the membership of the administrators group.  If user does not have access, then exit the routine
eval$ ={@IsMember("Administrators";@UserNamesList)}
admin = Evaluate(eval$)

 '//check security level of the person running the agent - admin level 
only
If admin(0) = 0 Then
 Msgbox "You do not have the required access to recall messages.  Please contact your Lotus Administrator.  Thank you", 0+16, "Error - Security Level"
 Exit Sub 
End If

 '//script will error if the mailDoc is not set, so force the script to resume next on any error
On Error Goto errHandler

 '//get a handle to the current database
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase

 '//get the first database in the directory on the server.
Set mailDb = notesdbdir.GetFirstDatabase(DATABASE)

 '//get the documented marked for removal
Set dc = db.UnprocessedDocuments

 '//check to make sure that a message(s) has been selected for recall. If not, then exit sub
If dc.count = 0 Then 
 Msgbox "You have not selected any messages to recall.  Please select the messages you wish to recall and run this agent again. Thank you.", 0+16, "Error - No Message Selected"
 Exit Sub 
End If

 '//Due to server performance, get only one document at a time 
Set doc = dc.GetFirstDocument

 '//set the log file using some information from the document
Set thisLog = New NotesLog("Message Recall")
Call thisLog.OpenNotesLog("server/ou", "applog.nsf")
thisLog.LogActions = True


 '//log brief information about the offending email for tracking purposes
Call thisLog.LogAction(" ********** RECALL STARTED ************* ") 
Call thisLog.LogAction(db.title & " - " & doc.universalid)

 '//check the database for the particular unid in question
While Not(mailDb Is Nothing)
 
  '//if the filepath of the database has 'mail' in it, then it should be a mail file
 If Instr(mailDb.FilePath,"mail") Then
  
   '//in order to search by unid, you must open an instance of the mail file
  Call mailDb.Open("", "")
  
   '//Search for the document by unid
  Set mailDoc = mailDb.GetDocumentByUNID(doc.UniversalID)
  
   '//if the document matching is found, remove the 
  document
  If Not(mailDoc Is Nothing) Then
   Call mailDoc.Remove(True)
   Call thisLog.LogAction("      -- document removed from db: " & mailDb.Title)
   
    '//count the number of databases that we remove the document from, for verification purposes
   counter = counter + 1
  End If
 End If
 
  '//get the next database in the directory
 Set mailDb = notesdbdir.GetNextDatabase
Wend

 '//display message to the administrator
Msgbox "Recall Complete.  Please review log file for validation. Thank you and have a great day, " & s.commonusername,  0+64, "Message Recall"

 '//finish up the logging and then close the log file
Call thisLog.LogAction(" Agent Completed -- " & counter & " databases were accessed.")
Call thisLog.LogAction(" ********** RECALL COMPLETE ************* ") 
Call thisLog.Close

errHandler:
Resume Next
End Sub

Can you forward a copy of a user's mail and keep it in their mailbox?

You can use R6 Mail Rules in their mailbox, but the problem is that all the forwarded mail looks like it comes from you.

As an alternative, you can use this Before New Mail Arrives agent. However, it cannot include the Cc list directly; it has to be part of the mail message so a duplicate copy of the forwarded mail doesn't get sent to the original Cc list. This nice thing about this agent is that it retains the original "From" address so the user can reply to the sender directly.

Sub Initialize
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim forward As NotesDocument
Dim forwardaddress As String
Dim rtitem As NotesRichTextItem
Dim rtnav As NotesRichTextNavigator

' **** set to the address that you would like to forward mail to ****
forwardaddress = "test@test.com" 

Set db = s.currentdatabase
Set doc = s.DocumentContext

Set forward = New NotesDocument(db)
Call doc.CopyAllItems(forward, True)
Set rtitem = forward.GetFirstItem( "Body" )
Dim newtext As String

     'navigation element in order to place header in front of body text
Set rtnav = rtitem.CreateNavigator
Call rtnav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTPARAGRAPH)

     'determines if this is an internal message or not
Dim nn As New NotesName(doc.GetItemValue("From")(0))
Dim cc As New NotesName(doc.GetItemValue("CopyTo")(0)) 
Dim sto As New NotesName(doc.GetItemValue("SendTo")(0))

     ' Set up a header that will be attached to the email which
' specifies additional info about the original email since we include the Cc list directly
Dim testcopy As String
If doc.GetItemValue("CopyTo")(0) = "" Then
 testcopy = "no one."
Else
 
 Forall x In doc.GetItemValue("CopyTo")
  If testcopy = Null Then
   testcopy = x
  Else
   testcopy = testcopy + x + ", "
  End If
  
 End Forall
 
End If


If nn.IsHierarchical Then 'if it is then get their internet address
 If nn.Addr821 <> Null Then
   'if they have one then use this as the from address
  Call rtitem.BeginInsert(rtnav)
  Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 1 )
  Call rtitem.AppendText( "Original message sent to " + sto.Addr821 + " and copies were sent to " + testcopy)
  Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 3 )
  Call rtitem.EndInsert
  
  Call forward.RemoveItem("CopyTo")
  Call forward.RemoveItem("BlindCopyTo")
  Call forward.ReplaceItemValue("From", nn.Addr821)
  Call forward.Save( True, True )
  
 Else
  ' otherwise if this is an internal message and the internet address of 
           ' that user is not populated, use the agent signer's return address
  Call rtitem.BeginInsert(rtnav)
  Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 1 )
  Call rtitem.AppendText( "Original message sent to " + sto.Addr821 + " and copies were sent to " + testcopy)
  Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 3 )
  Call rtitem.EndInsert
  
  Call forward.RemoveItem("CopyTo")
  Call forward.RemoveItem("BlindCopyTo")
  Call forward.ReplaceItemValue("iNetFrom", nn.Addr821)
  Call forward.Save( True, True )
 End If
Else 
 'otherwise this came in from the internet, so just use the from address as the inetfrom
 Call rtitem.BeginInsert(rtnav)
 Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 1 )
 Call rtitem.AppendText( "Original message sent to " + doc.GetItemValue("SendTo")(0) + " and copies were sent to " + testcopy)
 Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 3 )
 Call rtitem.EndInsert
 
 Call forward.RemoveItem("CopyTo")
 Call forward.RemoveItem("BlindCopyTo")
 Call forward.ReplaceItemValue("iNetFrom", doc.GetItemValue("From")(0))
 Call forward.Save( True, True ) 
End If
forward.Send False, forwardaddress 
Call forward.RemovePermanently(True)
End Sub

How Do You Set Up Failover for Outbound SMTP Mail?
In your server configuration document, there is a field for setting the relay host for messages leaving the Internet domain. If you put a comma separated value in there (can be IP addresses or hostnames), the SMTP router will try all the outbound relay hosts you specify when trying to send outbound SMTP mail.

Why is my Notes client having trouble replicating over satellite links?
There is a lot more latency on satellite links. Craig Wiseman suggested these parameters for your TCP/IP adapter that connects to your satellite modem:

TCP RECEIVE WINDOW : 224360
WINDOWS SCALING : YES
TIME STAMPING : NO
SELECTIVE AKS : YES
PATH MTU DISCOVERY : YES
BLACK HOLE DETECTION : NO
MAX DUPLICATE AKS : 3
TTL : 64
MTU : 900

You can use DrTCP to make these changes.

Can you find out how long views take to rebuild?
Here is some general logging info you can enable in your notes.ini. The first entry will log the start of each view rebuild by the updall task so you can calculate the time it took a view by comparing two messages:

; Show some log entries when the updall/update runs
LOG_UPDATE=2

; show the number of transactions
SHOW_PERFORMANCE=1

; Show logfile entries when semaphore waits time out
DEBUG_SHOW_TIMEOUT=1
; Show the thread ids
debug_threadid=1

; And show a semaphore wait log entry after ten seconds waiting.
debug_capture_timeout=10
debug_sem_timeout=10000

Can you have an Apache server handle Domino URLs on a different box?
You can use something called "reverse proxy" to map the Domino URLs to an internal machine:

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies

How do you enable folder references for a database?
You have to do this programmatically and via the convert task.
Programmatically, you have to enable the folder references property on the database. E.g.

Dim session as NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
db.FolderReferences = True

This enables Notes to track which folders documents are put into after you enable this flag. However, all the foldered documents before setting this flag will be missing their folder references. To determine which folders documents are in, you have to run this on the server console:

load convert -m <database>

(R6 or R7)
or

load convert -e <database>

(R5)

How do you get a list of inactive databases?

From Thomas Kennedy:

If you look in the server log there is a view called "Usage by Database" with Activity documents. There is one Activity doc per app on the server. In the activity doc there is a rich text field called "AllViewInfo"; this field stores the view names and the size of the view index, like this:

view1 tab number newline
view2 tab number newline

and so on. If you extract this information to another database, and there extract the text of the rich text field, and split it into an array based on newline, and then split each element of this array based on tab, you will have the name of each view and the size of the index.

Because Notes discards the view index after 45 days of disuses, this gives you a very simple and more or less accurate way of identifying unused apps. If, for example, 95% of the views have a size of zero you can flag that app for a closer look.

The rich text data is not perfectly consistent, so the call to split() should be in an error trap.

Sample code:

' **********************************************************
' Split the item's data into an array based on Newline.
' This gives us an array whose values are like:
'
' {viewname tab number; viewname tab number}
' **********************************************************
v1 = Split(activity_richtext.GetUnFormattedText, Chr$(13)&Chr$(10), -1,5)

total_views = 0
total_populated_views = 0

' **********************************************************
' Split each element of that array based on tab. This 
' gives us an array whose values are like:
' {viewname;number}
' **********************************************************
For c = 0 To Ubound(v1)
  v2 = Split(v1(c), Chr$(9), -1,5) 

  ' **********************************************************
  ' Some documents will contain "No views" or something
  ' similar in their rich text item. The resulting ubound will
  ' be 0, not 1. We step over these. The marker will be
  ' ACTIVITY_MARKER_UNKNOWN.
  ' **********************************************************
  If Ubound(v2) < 1 Then Goto NextView

  ' **********************************************************
  ' We keep track of two numbers: the number of views,
  ' and the number of non-zero view sizes. These tell us
  ' what percentage of the views have an index, and thus
  ' indirectly whether the db is in use or not.
  ' **********************************************************
  total_views = total_views + 1 

  ' **********************************************************
  ' Inconsistencies in the way the data is stored may
  ' result in a value that we cannot convert to a number,
  ' so this cast may raise an exception.
  ' **********************************************************
  On Error Resume Next
  tmp_double = Cdbl( v2(1) )
  On Error Goto 0

  ' **********************************************************
  ' If it does we just skip to the next view.
  ' **********************************************************
  If Err <> 0 Then
    Err = 0
    Goto NextView
  End If

  If tmp_double > 0 Then
    total_populated_views = total_populated_views+1
  End If

nextView:
Next c

What events cause the user ID to be backed up into the recovery database?

These events will cause the Notes client, after a 5min idle period, to send an encrypted copy of the user's ID file into the user ID recovery database:
Accepting new Notes keys into the ID file
Accepting a name change into the ID file
Initiating a change request
Updating the recovery information
Inserting a document encryption key (NEK) into the ID file

What can I check if my server is running too slow?

These are a few resources you can check:

- The Domino Performance Cookbook
- The Domino Performance Redbook
- Domino Performance Best Practices
- Troubleshooting TCP/IP Issues
- if you are running a cluster, do "show stat replica.cluster*" and check your cluster queue (if it's too high, your network bandwidth is too low)

Does Domino Support Wildcard SSL Certificates?
Thanks to Joe Walters for putting up this detailed description of how to set this up:

Configuring a wildcard certificate with Domino is very similar to configuring a single-host SSL certificate.� So, most of the process below you'll already be familiar with if you've ever set up SSL on Domino.� Here's how I would configure a new wildcard certificate in my test environment.� I'll include some caveats and comments at the end, so save your questions. :-)

My scenario:

I have a Domino 7.0.x server, Kakadu/WashU, running on Windows Server 2003.� It's Program directory is C:\Lotus\Domino and it's Data directory is D:\Lotus\Domino\Data.� I want to configure an SSL certificate for Kakadu, but I know later, I'll be asked to configure SSL certificates on other Domino servers, so I opt to implement a wildcard certificate. �

To save some time and hassle later, I picked an unused local drive letter (V:) and mapped a drive to Kakadu's D: drive (from a windows cmd prompt, I type net use V: \\kakadu\d$). �

Creating a Key Ring File:

The first thing I need to do to configure any SSL certificate in Domino is create a key ring file.�

I open the Domino Server Certificate Administration (CERTSRV.NSF) database on Kakadu (at this point, you may have to escape out of the About Database document), then click on Create Key Ring.

�

The key ring file is used to store the certificates and it ultimately needs to reside in the Domino server's data directory.� (This is where my mapped drive helps me out a little.) �

In the Key Ring File Name: field, I enter the path to where I want my key ring file to reside (in my Domino server's data directory, via my locally mapped V: drive).

Next, I enter a password and confirm it.� (Document and secure this password somewhere.� Do this now.� If you're like me, you won't remember it five minutes from now.)

I then select the Key Size I want to use for my key ring.� There's no reason for me not to choose 1024 for a more secure encryption strength.

Everything's been normal SSL configuration to this point.� But now, in the Common Name field, I need to use the wildcard notation instead of the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of my server, as I normally would.� My Domino server's FQDN is actually kakadu.wustl.edu, so the proper wildcard notation should be *.wustl.edu.

The rest of the fields (organization, Organizational Unit, City or Locality,� State or Province, and Country) should be filled in just as you would if you were configuring a single server SSL certificate.

When I've finished filling out this form, I click the Create Key Ring button at the bottom.

�

A dialog box pops up indicating I've successfully created my key ring file.� I click OK and at this point, if I were to go out to Kakadu's Domino data directory, I would see my .kyr file (wildcard1024.kyr).� I should also see a wildcard1024.sth file in the data directory.� The .kyr file is password-protected in a binary format (not encrypted).� The .sth file is the Stash file, and it stores the password to the .kyr file so the server can use it unattended.

�

Generating a CSR:

Now that I have a key ring file to store my certificates, I need to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request).� Still in certsrv.nsf, I now click on Create Certificate Request.

�

A Create Server Certificate Request form opens, and I confirm that the Key Ring File Name path includes the full path to the key ring file I created previously.� All of this auto-filled for me, so I just click the Create Certificate Request button.�

�

Now a Certificate Request Created dialog box will pop up.� Here you'll need to copy to the clipboard everything you see in the bottom window including the -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- text at the beginning and the -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- text at the end.� (I suggest you paste this into a text file for temporary safe keeping as well.� You can safely delete it once you've finished the whole process.)� Click OK once you've copied the certificate to the clipboard.

�

Acquire your Wildcard SSL Certificate from a Third-Party Certificate Authority:

Now that you have a CSR, you can go to a third-party SSL provider's website to get a wildcard certificate.� Each provider's process will be a little bit different, but they will all want four things from you.

1) You need to be the owner of the domain name for which you want to get the wildcard certificate, so be prepared to provide some type of proof to the third-party CA that you're authorized to request the certificate.

2) You'll also need to provide some type of proof that your organization is a legitimate one.

3) You'll need to have the CSR you generated a moment ago.

4) Lastly, you'll need to pay for the certificate.� If you have a credit card, preferably a company card, this is definitely the easiest way to go.� I've had to pay for certificates with a purchase order in the past and the delay was irritating.� In fact, some CAs may not accept anything but a credit card anyway.

In this example, I'm purchasing my wildcard certificate from Digicert, but the process is very similar between Verisign, Thawte, Digicert, and I imagine most other third-party CAs.

Installing the Wildcard Certificate into your Key Ring file:

Once you've finished purchasing your wildcard certificate, your CA will let you know how to retrieve your certificate.� (Typically, you'll create a login account to their website where you can retrieve them.) �

Depending on who you purchase your certificate from, the key ring file may or may not already have Trusted Root and Intermediate certificates installed.� So the best bet is to install the Trusted Root and Intermediate certificates, assuming they're not already there.� You'll want to install the Trusted Root certificate first, then any Intermediate certificates, and lastly, install your wildcard certificate into the key ring file.

I open the Domino Server Certificate Administration (CERTSRV.NSF) database on Kakadu, then click on Install Trusted Root Certificate into Key Ring.

�

In the Install Trusted Root Certificate form that opens, I make sure the path to my key ring file is correct (this should autofill for me).� A label is required, so I enter a label appropriate to the cert I'm installing.� I also select Clipboard for the certificate source, and paste the certificate into the form.� Lastly, I clicked the Merge Trusted Root Certificate into Key Ring button.

�

A confirmation window appears, which reads the certificate data and presents it in a human readable format.� Everything looks correct, so I click OK.

�

In this case, the Trusted Root certificate I just attempted to install was already in the key ring.� No problem.� I just move on to the install any other trusted root/intermediate certificates I may need.

�

Again, I select Install Trusted Root Certificate into Key Ring.

�

And again, I verify the path to my key ring file, enter an appropriate label, paste the certificate into the form, and click the Merge Trusted Root Certificate into Key Ring button

�

Again, a confirmation pop-up appears and everything looks fine.� I click OK.

�

This time, I see that I did not have this certificate in the key ring yet, so it's good that I did this.� Having this intermediate certificate installed completes the certificate chain from the trusted root CA, through the intermediate certificate, and then to my wildcard SSL certificate.

�

Now I'm finally� able to install my wildcard certificate into my key ring file.� This time, I choose Install Certificate into Key Ring.

�

Again, I verify the path to my key ring file.� This time, however, I don't need to enter a label.� I still select the Clipboard option, paste the certificate into the form, then click the Merge Certificate into Key Ring button.

�

A confirmation dialog appears, and it's important to verify everything's correct.� It all looks good, so I click OK.

�

WOOHOO!! I've merged a wildcard certificate into my key ring file! Click OK.

�

Now you can configure domino for SSL as you would before.� Configuring SSL via web configuration or internet site documents is no different with wildcard certs than single-server certs.� To use the wildcard certificate on a different server, I only need to copy my key ring file (wildcard1024.kyr) and a stash file (wildcard1024.sth) located in Kakadu's data directory to the data directory of another Domino server.

Additional Notes:
Because this is a wildcard certificate, you need to take precautions to keep the certificate secure.� Of course, you should be protecting your file system from inappropriate access anyway.
I chose to use the clipboard method to merge certificates into my key ring file.� The other option is to specify a file (e.g. TrustedRoot.crt, DigiCertCA.crt and your_domain_name.crt).� Both options work equally well.� This is a personal preference.
I chose to map a drive to my Domino server's data directory.� The reason I did this was to avoid having to later copy my key ring file (wildcard1024.kyr) and stash file (wildcard1024.sth) up to my Domino server.� Again, a personal preference thing.� If you don't have a windows server, you could possibly mount a samba share, or just do everything with your local Notes client and copy everything up when you're done.� Personal preference again.
Now that I have a wildcard certificate, I'll store both the .kyr and .sth files in a highly secured database in Notes for safe keeping.� I also document when the certificate will expire in a central change managment database, then add a reminder on my personal calendar to send me a reminder a month or two prior to the expiration date, so I don't have any expiration surprises.
Lastly, the gobbledy gook text above for the certificates is not legit.� It's fictitious, but I think the screen shots are a fair representation of the process you'll encounter if you choose to configure a wildcard certificate in Domino.
An extra word of caution:
Depending on your browser, Wildcard certificates may work at only one domain level only.� For instance with my *.wustl.edu certificate, I can secure any website whose FQDN is in the format of domainlevel3.wustl.edu (e.g. kakadu.wustl.edu, dipperu.wustl.edu, etc.).� Regardless of the browser, these domain names will all have a valid certificate chain.� Things get trickier if I try to secure a website whose FQDN is in the format of domainlevel4.domainlevel3.wustl.edu (for instance, www.kakadu.wustl.edu).� www. is now a fourth level domain name, and my wildcard is specifically registered as *.wustl.edu, not *.*.wustl.edu.� Mind you, the last I checked, Firefox, Opera, and Mozilla had no problems applying a wildcard certificate to multiple levels in this way, but Microsoft IE and Safari throw warnings to the end user when they encounter this.

How Do You Rebuild Busytime?

The cleanest way to do this is to shut down the server and delete busytime.nsf and let the server rebuild this if your busytime database is corrupted. If you have a clustered setup, you have to shut down the servers in your cluster and delete the clubusy.nsf DB.

An alternative way that may not require server reboots:
- shut down the calconn, sched, and rnrmgr tasks
- delete all documents in the busytime.nsf or clubusy.nsf DBs or just delete the DB after a "dbcache flush"
- restart the calconn, sched, and rnrmgr tasks
- instead of restarting the tasks, you may be able to do "tell sched validate" and "tell rnrmgr validate" from the console

How Do You Fix the "Error connecting to server " Error?

The Domino server when it has multiple network cards, sometimes doesn't know how to contact itself and you get messages of the form "Error connecting to server <itself>: Remote system no longer responding". Even though DNS has the IP address for the server, Domino sometimes needs this IP address put in the local hosts file directly. On Windows, this is in the \windows\system32\drivers\etc directory.

Does "Optimize document table map" Cause View Index Corruption?

This is a known issue that happens with workflow applications that change forms for the documents as the documents go through the workflow. As long as your database does not do this, you can use this to get faster view performance. This is documented well on Nathan Freeman's Blog.

Lotus knows about this and won't fix it until they hear enough complaints from customers, so if you have a maintenance plan and want to use up one of your support tickets, feel free to do so :-)

Why do I get the "Maximum allowable documents exceeded for a temporary index" in the Notes Log?

Usually, an agent has a document filter criteria that is causing a temporary full text index to be created.
Simplify the filtering criteria or full text index the database to take the load off your server.

You can work around the limit of 5000 documents by adding (as of Notes 6) this:

  TEMP_INDEX_MAX_DOC=<

number>

into your server's notes.ini but this isn't recommended because it will increase the load on your server.

IBM Redbooks

IBM redbooks are documents written by technical specialists within IBM. The quality of the technical information is generally very good. This is a list of the available publications related to Notes:

Developing Applications with Lotus Notes Release 4, IBM form number SG24-4618-00
LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers, IBM form number SG24-4856-00, Lotus part number 12498
Secrets to Running Lotus Notes: The Decisions No One Tells You How to Make, IBM form number SG24-4875-00, Lotus part number AA0424
Lotus Notes Release 4 in a Multiplatform Environment, IBM form number SG24-4649-00
IBM PC Server and Lotus Notes Integration Guide, IBM form number SG24-4857-00

Lotus Notes on AIX Systems Installation: Customization and Administration, IBM form number SG24-4694-00
Using ADSM to Back Up Lotus Notes, IBM form number SG24-4534-00

You can order these redbooks from the Redbook Web Site.

Helpful Non-Notes Books

You can order any of these books from Amazon Books, who will give you a 20% discount on them. All you have to do is click on the ISBN number of the book in the tables below.

Search Amazon for more books:

Title	Author	Publisher	ISBN	Reviews
Enterprise.Com	Jeff Papows	Perseus Books	0738200646	Ken Yee
Javascript : The Definitive Guide	David Flanagan	O'Reilly & Associates	1565923928
Java Servlet Programming	Jason Hunter, William Crawford, Paula Ferguson	O'Reilly & Associates	156592391X
Dynamic HTML : The Definitive Reference	Danny Goodman	O'Reilly & Associates	1565924940

Reviews are still needed.
If you've read a good Notes book lately, [email]

let the FAQ maintainer know how you liked it.

Lotus Notes Magazines

The View, (800)810-1800 or (617)969-6666, $295/yr. Click [email] here to send a mail message to The View.

Lotus Notes & Domino Advisor, (800)336-6060 or (619)483-9851, $69/yr. Click [email] here to send a mail message to the Lotus Notes Advisor.

Lotus eBusiness Magazine (an on-line magazine)

Lotus Solutions Now! is a free publication on Lotus products published by Lotus.

Virtual Workgroups, (800)-227-1234, $40/yr. Not strictly a Notes magazine, but a good number of their articles describe how companies are using Notes.

netConnect, 011-44-171-221-7178, $225/yr for the printed version. This is a UK Groupware magazine with some articles on Lotus Notes. You can also [email] email them for additional info.

Group Computing, (415)348-0579, free to qualified individuals. This is a magazine that covers Notes and other groupware tools (including web based tools). [email] Contact them for more information.

Rupert's Lotus Business Week (Formerly Lotus eNews), free. A weekly email newsletter covering the business issues behind Lotus mail, groupware and web products. To subscribe, send email to [email] rupert.b@virgin.net.

Domino Power Magazine is a free monthly journal with weekly tips and daily Notes and Domino-related news.

Can you set Notes fields from JavaScript?

On the browser the Notes fields are rendered as objects associated with the form and are accessible via JavaScript. E.g. document.forms[0].NotesField.value = "hello" would set a notes text field named "NotesField" to the value "hello".
RichText, checkboxes and radio buttons are handled as array objects, so they must be indexed (e.g. NotesField[0]). You set different properties based on the field type ( .value=, .text=, .checked=true, etc.).

Can you display a text field as a TEXTAREA?

From Howard Katz (HKatz@FocusedManagement.com):

Simply code your text field as "Allow multi-values", then on the Options tab, check "New line" for "Separate values when user enters" and "Display separate values with". This plain text field will then be displayed as a TEXTAREA. You can set the HTML attributes of the field to adjust the size of the TEXTAREA.

From Justin Freeman:
Note that you'll need separate web and Notes forms to do this: Add some passthru HTML text where you want the textarea to show up:

Then create a hidden computed field at the bottom of the page. Set the value to "comments" (the same name as the field).

How do you add a Javascript button which validates the form and then submits it?

Your checkForm function should have the code to validate as well as submit. Your button should be of the type "button" and not submit. If the validation fails make an early exit from the function.

Add the following code in the $$HTMLHead field:

"<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"JavaScript\"> 
function checkForm() {
  if (document.forms[0].Name.value == \"\") {
      alert(\"You must enter your name\");
      return false;
  }
  document.forms[0].submit();
  return true;
}
</script>"

Add this code for a submit button as passthrough HTML or with the HTML style:

  <INPUT TYPE="Button" VALUE="Submit" onClick="checkForm(0)">

Now that you've added a special button, you'll have to remove the default one that Domino generates via the FAQ on how to remove the submit button.

How do you get the relative path to the database for web URLs?

You can use:
nsfpath := @ReplaceSubstring(@Subset(@DbName; -1); "\\"; "/");

In R6+, you can just use @WebDbName.

Can You Do AJAX Applications with Domino?
Richard Schwartz has created a good collections of examples of this (including a link to a nice Name Picker example):

http://www.rhs.com/poweroftheschwartz/htdocs/LotusDominoAjax.htm

Can You Run PHP Pages on a Domino Server?
You can install Apache with PHP and get them to run site by side on the same server. Mike Golding has written a nice article on how to do this.

How do you make a database open a form by default from the web?

Thanks to Carl Tyler:

Create a Navigator, call it WebNavigation it can be totally empty, as it doesn't really get used.
Create a form with the contents you want called $$NavigatorTemplateDefault
Now set the web launch options for the database to open the navigator WebNavigation and it will use the form $$NavigatorTemplateDefault

Computer Based Training

The following companies make Lotus Notes CBT courseware:
Self Test Software (770) 971-8940
Lotus (800)782-7876
CBT Systems
ReCor

Professor 3T (end-user training)
Headlight.com resells a few Notes courses

TLCC's R5 Developer courses including web development, Java, LotusScript and JavaScript (free demo course available)
TLCC's User courses for Release 5 and 6 (free demo course available)
Get re-certified as a Release 6 CLP with TLCC's Update course
TLCC's Notes Domino 6 courses
TLCC's Domino Admin 6 courses cover setup of Domino and find tuning the Domino infrastructure
Learn WebSphere and Java development with TLCC's WebSphere curriculum
TLCC has Notes/Domino 7 courses for developers and administrators; they cover using DB2 with Domino

Virtual Classes via the Internet

Virtual Training Center
Distance learning courses for Notes users, developers, and administrators. Courses available for R4, R5, R6, R7, Notes and Domino development, LotusScript, Websphere, Java, and JavaScript. Try a free demonstration course at TLCC's web site.

Ives Development (the makers of TeamStudio) offer a web-based best practices training course for Lotus Notes and Domino developers called "TeamStudio LifeCycle".

Lotus Education Helpline
The Lotus Education Helpline has an Exam Guide for Lotus Notes; the number is (800)346-6409. Lotus Fax Support also has sample exam questions at 617-253-9150.

Notes Utilities

John Buckman's Lotus Notes Phone Dialer
[ftp] Alert! New Document Notifier
PutNote and GetNote

[ftp] The LNOTES-L Archive
[ftp] OS/2 Netware Requester Software
[ftp] Lotus Internet Cookbook (.NSF format)
[ftp] Notes Database Templates from Lotus
[ftp] Lotus Notes Mobile Survival Kit

OfficeVision and SNADS

DGA Ltd. has a set of tools for migration and co-existence of SNADS-compatible mail systems, OfficeVision and DisplayWrite.

PalmPilot

GlobalWare has a product called Pylon Conduit which does C&S and email sync w/ the PalmPilot. They also have a product called Pylon Pro that can even convert some Notes applications to run on the PalmPilot.

Puma Technology has IntelliSync.

Lotus has EasySync but the other products have more features.

Cadenza from CommonTime can synchronize mail, calendar, and contact info between Notes and a PalmOS device.

FAX

There are quite a few FAX gateways for Notes/Domino. All of these allow a user to e-mail a document to a FAX number.

Lotus' Domino Fax Server
Extracomm's ExtraFax
GFI Communication's Faxmaker for SMTP
Biscom's Fax for Notes
OMTOOL's Fax Sr.
Softlinx' Replix dominoFAX

V-Systems' VSI-FAX
Captaris' RightFAX
Redrock's FaxNow!

POP3

POP3Fido from KEY Enterprise Solutions is an integrated server task that delivers mail to Notes users from POP3 mailboxes. A 45 day trial version is available.

Pytheas' MailGate is a standalone POP3/SMTP gateway that works w/ Notes and Exchange.

Migration Tools

cc:Mail (including DB8 support)
Creative Business Solutions has a cc:Mail migration tool that is more updated than Lotus'.
Lotus' Migration Tools now support DB8.

Outlook
Binary Tree has a tool which migrates mail, folder structure, appointments and meetings (including invitees and attendees), tasks, and notes.

Exchange
OpenOne has a tool called Direct-TO-1 that lets email be migrated between Notes, Exchange, and a few other email systems.

MS Exchange <-> Lotus Notes

Linkage's Exchange-Notes Connector synchronizes directories, databases, and lets users send mail to each other while preserving attachments and rich-text formatting. Microsoft has bought Linkage; they bundle it for free with Exchange 5.5 and above.

MESA's JumpStart currently has does MS Exchange public folder to Notes database synchronization. They plan to have application and mail synchronization in the future.

Casahl's RA.GroupwareLink synchronizes Notes databases and MS Exchange folders.

Binary Tree's MailPort for MS Exchange migrates, mail, C&S schedules, and contacts to Notes.

Windows CE/Pocket PC/Windows Mobile

Cadenza from CommonTime can synchronize mail, calendar, and contact info between Notes and a WinCE/PPC/WM device; their mForms product also lets you do custom form application on this platform.

Notes <-> Rex Organizer

A freeware utility is provided by MorphaSys to let you sync your Notes address book and contact information and your most recent email with your Rex Organizer.

Outlook to Domino
Microsoft has released a free Outlook 2002/2003 connector so it can be used with Domino 5.x/6.x servers. It also lets you access your calendar, address book, and to-do list.

Lotus' Domino Access for MS Outlook lets you also use Outlook 2000 and replicate your mail onto your system.

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Domino for Linux is an important development for the Domino community. Lotus's impending release of Domino for the popular Open Source platform is sure to introduce many people to Linux, as well as give existing Linux users access to a robust and scalable application server.

DominoLinux will be very focused on using Domino on the Linux operating system, so general questions about Domino and the Lotus Notes client are probably handled on the general Notes/Domino lists such as Domino-L (see http://www.nipltd.com/domino-l.htm) and LNOTES-L.

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Where can I find info on Mac-specific (not Notes-related) problems?

Check the following WEB sites:

The Macintosh Resource Page
The MacInTouch Home Page
The Cult of Macintosh
The EvangeList Web Site

If those don't have an answer to your Mac questions, they have links to numerous other sites for software downloads and other software and hardware questions. In addition, there is the I/O MUG - Internet ONLY Macintosh User's Group mailing list. To subscribe, send
SUBscribe IO-MUG <full name>
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LISTSERV@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU

What is a good entry-level AS/400 system?

You should get an AS/400 with at least a 200 CPW. A good entry-level system is the 170 with the 2164 processor. Domino does not run very well on a 150 or the smaller 170 model.

IBM has an AS/400 Domino Sizing site to help you decide.

Can you run the Notes Client on Linux?

Peter Leugner figured out to run the Notes 7.01 client on WINE:
- Get the latest wine from http://www.winehq.com (Version 0.9.19)
- Run the install: wine whatevertheinstalliscalled.exe
- Copy oleacc.dll and oleaccrc.dll from an existing windows to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 (depending on your settings this could be in windows/system, just copy them in both to be safe). Without this, you can't edit the preferences.
- Edit notes.ini and append the line
DisableUniscribe=1
This gets rid of a bunch of errormessages, I don't know, what it actually does.
- Start notes:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="oleacc=n" ; wine "C:\Program Files\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe"

There's a WINE wiki page on how to run the Win32 Notes client on Linux.

WINE (a windows emulator for Linux) has gotten good enough that it will run the R5 Notes client. Phil Colbourn (pcolbourn@argus.net.au) posted this helpful guide to getting it working:
Download and install Codeweavers Wine rpm. I used codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm

If you are mounting a dos partition, setup fstab and mount it. My /etc/fstab entry for my FAT32 partition is:

/dev/hda6 /mnt/e vfat noauto,owner,user 0 0

Run winesetup Programs-System-Wine Config under gnome. I set these options:
- Look & feel to Win95
- Window Mode to Managed
- Drive E HD /mnt/e (my FAT32 partition)
- Drive H network ${HOME}
- Drive Z network / to have access to the file system
- I added E:\lotus\notes;E:\lotus\notes\data to the Path
I'm using a Compaq Armada E500. I has a lucent winmodem (for the money I expected a self-contained modem). Fortunately a linmodem driver is available. It creates a /dev/ttyLT0 device. In the ports section I set this as a Coms port, but I have not tested it yet. I also have a network HP 8000 printer set as lp and lp4 (for printing 4 pages per page, full duplex)

My ~/.wine/config file is listed here:

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; Path=xxx (Unix path for drive root)
;; Type=xxx (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; Label=xxx (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; Serial=xxx (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; Filesystem=xxx (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; Device=/dev/xx (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;

[Drive A]
"Type" = "floppy"
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Label" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/pc901725/.wine/fake_windows"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "/home/pc901725/.wine/fake_windows"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive E]
"Type" = "hd"
"Path" = "/mnt/e"
"Label" = "/mnt/e"
"FS" = "win95"

[Drive Z]
"Type" = "network"
"Path" = "/"
"Label" = "Root"
"FS" = "win95"

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\Windows"
"System" = "C:\\Windows\\system"
"Path" = 
"C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\system;e:\\lotus\\notes;e:\\lotus\\notes\\data;C:\\Temp"
"Temp" = "C:\\Temp"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;ShowDirSymlinks=1
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"

[DllDefaults]
"DefaultLoadOrder" = "builtin, so, native"

[DllOverrides]
"kernel32" = "builtin"
"gdi32" = "builtin"
"user32" = "builtin"
"krnl386" = "builtin"
"gdi" = "builtin"
"user" = "builtin"
"toolhelp" = "builtin"
"comdlg32" = "builtin"
"commdlg" = "builtin"
"version" = "builtin"
"ver" = "builtin"
"shell32" = "builtin"
"shell" = "builtin"
"shlwapi" = "builtin"
"lz32" = "builtin"
"lzexpand" = "builtin"
"commctrl" = "builtin"
"comctl32" = "builtin"
"wsock32" = "builtin"
"winsock" = "builtin"
"advapi32" = "builtin"
"crtdll" = "builtin"
"ntdll" = "builtin"
"mpr" = "builtin"
"winspool.drv" = "builtin"
"ddraw" = "builtin"
"dinput" = "builtin"
"dsound" = "builtin"
"winmm" = "builtin"
"mmsystem" = "builtin"
"msvideo" = "builtin"
"msvfw32" = "builtin"
"mcicda.drv" = "builtin"
"mciseq.drv" = "builtin"
"mciwave.drv" = "builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "builtin"
"msacm.drv" = "builtin"
"midimap.drv" = "builtin"
"glide2x" = "so"
"glide3x" = "so"
"opengl32" = "builtin"
"shfolder" = "builtin"
"rpcrt4" = "builtin"
"w32skrnl" = "builtin"
"wnaspi32" = "builtin"
"wow32" = "builtin"
"system" = "builtin"
"display" = "builtin"
"wprocs" = "builtin"
"wineps" = "builtin"
"icmp" = "builtin"

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette 
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;ScreenDepth = 16
; Name of X11 display to use
;;Display = :0.0
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Run Wine windows in desktop. Contains "N" or something like "800x600".
"Desktop" = "N"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
"UseDGA" = "Y"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup 
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; XVideoPort = 43

[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-times-"

[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS14"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyLT0"

"Com3" = "/dev/modem,38400"
"Com4" = "/dev/ttyS14"

[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp"
"Lpt2" = "/dev/lp4"

[spooler]
"LPT1:" = "|lpr -P lp"
"LPT2:" = "|lpr -P lp4"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
"LPT4:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"

[ports]
;read=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
;write=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0

[spy]
"Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"

[registry]
; Paths must be given in /dir/dir/file.reg format.
; Wine will not understand dos file names here...

;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; PeriodicSave=600
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

[Tweak.Layout]
;; WineLook=xxx (supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98')
"WineLook" = "Win95"

[Console]
;Drivers=tty
;XtermProg=nxterm
;InitialRows=25
;InitialColumns=80
;TerminalType=nxterm

[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"


[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"

[Drive H]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Device" = ""

==========
Installing Lotus Notes r506 (r504 upgraded to r506 using incremental installers under MS-Windows)
==========

I already had a r506 shared install on my Windows partition. It was an r504 full shared install upgraded to r506. If I had the CD handy, I could have installed it under Wine and applied the upgrades to r506 (as I have done this in the past)

I relocated the shared Notes install to E:\lotus\notes, and my data directory to E:\lotus\notes\data. Drive E: in MS-Windows 2000 is /mnt/e under Linux and I mapped this to drive E: under Wine. This way I can share my Notes program and data files between MS-Windows and Linux/Wine.

To setup the registry, I ran wine e:\lotus\notes\setup.

I had a lot of trouble getting Notes to work. I tried all sorts of DLL combinations (builtin v's native). Eventually I discovered it was some redistributed files in the Notes program directory that were causing me grief. I removed them and ... I don't need MS-Windows 2000 anymore.

The files I removed (renamed actually) were these:
- imagehlp.dll
- msvcrt.dll
- olepro32.dll
- rpcrt4.dll (I think)

If these don't exist in your Notes program directory, don't worry.

==========
Running Notes under Wine
==========

I made this small script and placed it into ~/bin/notes

echo preparing to start notes...
if [ ! -f /mnt/e/lotus/notes/Notes.exe ]; then
  echo mounting /mnt/e...
  mount /mnt/e
fi
echo starting notes...
wine e:\\lotus\\notes\\nlnotes.exe =e:\\lotus\\notes\\data\\notes.ini

It mounts my Wine E: drive if it is not already mounted, then starts Notes using nlnotes.exe rather than notes.exe. This is because notes.exe launches the Notes splash screen first and then runs nlnotes.exe (I think). But when you close Notes (nlnotes.exe actually), the splash screen does not get closed and seems to remain running under Wine even though you can not see it. I think this happens in MS-Windows as well except that it is closed when nlnotes is closed. From my experience, nlnotes is all you need, and it does not waste memory (under wine at least). I now run nlnotes.exe instead of notes.exe under MS-Windows.

NB: chmod u+x ~/bin/notes before using it

==========
WIN.INI Modifications
==========

To control the date and time format (to dd/MM/yyyy and 24 hour time) I added these entries into C:\Windows\WIN.INI since I could not get them to work in the registry.

[intl]
iTLZero=1
iDate=1
sDate=/
sShortDate=dd/MM/yyyy
sLongDate=dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
iTime=1
iTimePrefix=1
sTime=:
s1159=
s2359=
sTimeFormat=HH:mm:ss

NB: These work but I do not know what consistutes the minimum set.

==========
NOTES.INI
==========
This is an annotated extract of my NOTES.INI file in E:\lotus\notes\data.

[Notes]
Directory=e:\Lotus\Notes\Data - case does not seem to matter
WinNTIconPath=e:\lotus\notes\data\W32
Timezone=-10 - Australia
ClockType=24_HOUR - this did not do anything
DST=0 - our parent org does not run DST, so we can not either
TCPIP=TCP, 0, 15, 0
COM1=XPC,1,15,0,,12288,
COM2=XPC,2,15,0,,12292,115200,16,_pcgend.mdm,60,15 - my own generic modem file
COM3=XPC,3,15,0,
COM4=XPC,4,15,0,,12302,57600,16,_pcgend.mdm,60,15
COM5=XPC,5,15,0,,12292,115200,16,_PCGEND.MDM,60,15
Ports=TCPIP,COM4
DisabledPorts=COM2,COM5,COM1,COM3

MailServer=CN=amber/O=RailCom - amber is a Linux Domino server! We are running two one on RH7.0 and another on Debian. The one on Debian is not very stable yet, but it also has a stallion multi-port serial card, and is our Notes dial-in server. The RH7.0 server runs well, but currently only  as a mail/HTTP server and we are only running it on a non SMP 2.2 kernel (the box has two processors, SCSI RAID, and 1G RAM)

SPELL_DIR=e:\lotus\notes\data
DateOrder=DMY - this did not do anything either

==========

Well that is it. I'd be interested if this helps or if you find any improvements I can make.

Status for support can also be found here.

IBM has also released a Hanover native Linux Notes client.

John Smolenaers was nice enough to write up how to install it on Debian which isn't one of the supported platforms:

INSTALLING LOTUS NOTES 7.0.1 ON DEBIAN 3.1 (SARGE)

PREREQUISITES
This procedure is based on a standard Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Desktop installation using the Linux kernel 2.4 with Gnome as the default Desktop Environment.
PROCEDURE
1. Copy the directory Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux Setup to /tmp or another location of your choice (if you do not know where Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux Setup folder is, contact Internal IT for the location). You can either use your favourite GUI file browser or from a new terminal window by typing;
cp Source/Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux Setup /tmp
2. From a terminal screen type in the following;

su root

and type in the root password when prompted.
3. Install the debian package libmotif3 by typing in;

apt-get install libmotif3

4. Create the file /etc/gre.conf by typing in;

nano )w /etc/gre.conf

or using your favourite text editor (e.g vi, emacs etc(). Insert the two following lines;
[1.7.8] <-------------- Version of Mozilla installed
GRE_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla <-------------- Path to location of Mozilla
then save and close the file. If using nano as your text editor, you can save and close the file using the key sequence;
Ctrl+X
Y
Enter
5. Create the directory /opt/IBM by typing in;

mkdir /opt/IBM

6. Change the permission of the directory /opt/IBM to allow all users to have write permissions by typing in;

chmod 777 /opt/IBM

7. Ensure the file /tmp/Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux Setup/setup_wct_platform.bin has execute permissions by typing in;

chmod 777 /tmp/Lotus\ Notes\ 7.0.1\ for\ Linux\ Setup/setup_wct_platform.bin

8. Exit as SU from the terminal screen by typing;
exit
and pressing;
Enter
9. Change to the Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux Setup directory by typing in;

cd /tmp/ Lotus\ Notes\ 7.0.1\ for\ Linux\ Setup

10. Start the installation for Lotus Notes 7.0.1 by typing in;

./setup_wct_platform.bin

11. After a short while, the &Installation wizard for IBM Workplace Managed Client8 will open stating that it will install with the item &Lotus Notes Plugin8. Click Next to continue the installation.
12. Accept the terms and click Next.
13. Leave the &Directory Name:8 as the default unless you know what you are doing then click Next.
14. Click Next again and the installation wizard will begin installing files.
15. Once the files have finished installing, click Next.
16. The wizard will close and open the &Setup wizard for IBM Workplace Manage Client8 and begin installing more files. When it has almost finished, a new windows will open called &Installer8 (this is the Lotus Notes plugin installer).
17. Accept the terms again and click Next.
18. The installer will install the &Lotus Notes Application Plugin8 files. Once it has finished, it will state that you need to logout and log back in. Ignore this and click Finish.
19. The &Setup wizard for IBM Workplace Manage Client8 will finish and you can click Finish8.
20. Lotus Notes will open with two blank panes. Don,t panic, just close it as you need to set-up some environment variables and paths before it will work properly. Once closed, create the text file /home/<username>/.noteslauncher by opening a terminal window and typing in;
nano )w /home/<username>/.noteslauncher
or using your favourite text editor (e.g vi, emacs etc(). Insert the following lines;

#!/bin/sh
export NOTESBIN=/home/<username>/notes
export NOTESDATA=/home/<username>/notes/data
export NOTESDIR=/home/<username>/notes/data
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NOTESBIN:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin/classic:$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$NOTESBIN/jvm/bin:$NOTESBIN:$PATH
export CLASSPATH=./:$NOTESBIN/:$CLASSPATH
/opt/IBM/Workplace\ Managed\ Client/rcp/richclient -personality com.ibm.workplace.noteswc.standalone.linux.personality

then save and close the file. If using nano as your text editor, you can save and close the file using the key sequence;
Ctrl+X
Y
Enter
21. Ensure the file /home/<username>/.noteslauncher has execute permissions by opening a terminal window and typing in;

chmod 777 /home/<username>/.noteslauncher

22. On your desktop, go to the properties of the icon labelled IBM Lotus Notes by right clicking on it and selecting Properties from the context menu.
23. Select the Launcher TAB and change the Command: field to;
/home/<username>/.noteslauncher
Then click Close to close the properties window.
24. Launch Lotus Notes by double clicking on the IBM Lotus Notes icon on the desktop. Since this is the first time Lotus notes has been run, the Lotus Notes Client Configuration window will open at the Welcome screen.

How big an AS/400 do I need for Domino?

Here are a few useful URLs:
http://www-912.ibm.com/supporthome.nsf/document/16533356
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/is4dprice.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/value.htm

How do you install Domino 6 on a Debian-based Linux?
From Ian Cherrill:

There are two problems to getting Domino 65 working on Knoppix 3.2 (based on Debian)
(1) Missing required library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
(2) Incompatible JVM

You'll need to fix the library problem before trying to install Domino if memory serves me, and the second problem needs to be fixed before trying to run the HTTP task, though it is best fix it as soon as Domino files have been installed.

To solve (1) use APT to install the correct DEB package like this:
apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1
or if this does not work you can download the package manually and use
dpkg -i libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1
(maybe .DEB on the end of the filename - not sure, apt-get worked for me)

Solving (2) is more tricky:
(a) download IBM's JRE 1.3.1 for Linux on Intel from their website. Unpack it (using ark or tar zxvf on the command line) to a place of you choice - I chose /opt/lotus/ibmjava/jvm just to keep it near the Domino install. No "install" is required.

(b) as root change to the lotus program directory (/opt/lotus/notes/latest/linux). You need to symlink one directory ("jvm") and one file ("java") to the IBM Java installation, so:
rm java
ln -s /opt/lotus/ibmjava/jvm/bin/java java
mv jvm jvm_old
ln -s /opt/lotus/ibmjava/jvm/ jvm

Now you should be able to configure Domino 65 and then start the server - I did both using /opt/lotus/bin/server command. If you do this, make sure you are running an X desktop that the "notes" user can access otherwise the nice GUI configuration won't start. I logged into X as the notes user.

From Christopher J Wood:

As we started upgrading to 6.0.1 and then 6.0.1CF1, we started seeing more crashes with Domino under Linux. In working with support, it turned out to be related to the libc version that was running on our linux box.

We were running 2.2.5-10 and they recommended 2.2.5-43 or higher. To quote, try "glibc-VER.i686.rpm package ( I would use version 2.2.5-43 )."

I actually upgraded all the way to 2.3.1-xx and have run for a week without a crash, versus crashing once a day before.

The problem seemed to be with some old versions of libpthreads.so. I thought I would pass this on just in case someone else is struggling with crashes.

Can you run the Notes Client on Linux?
From Peter Leugner:

Install the latest wine from www.winehq.com (or emerge wine, apt-get wine or whatever).
Install Notes 6.51 under Windows.
Copy the the Notes directory to ~/.wine/fake_windows/program files.
Copy mfc42.dll and msvcp60.dll from Windows to ~/.wine/fake_windows/windows/system

Type

  wine "c:\program files\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe"

and enjoy.

In Designer you also can edit and compile Java Agents now, I couldn't do that with R5 on wine.

How do you start/stop Domino on Linux automatically?
Daniel Nashed has put up a nice script on his web site that does this and also gives you the option to connect to the Domino console. You can request your own copy of it here.

Do I have to install the Notes/Domino Server on Windows Server?
No, you do not need to install the Lotus Notes/Domino server on a Microsoft Windows Server if you are installing it on Windows. You can install it on Windows 2000, XP, etc. However, IBM/Lotus has a list of supported operating systems that they've tested on and may complain if you try to report a problem that happens on an unsupported platform.

How do you delete a profile document?

You have to use LotusScript:

  Set doc = db.GetProfileDocument(profilename)
  Call doc.Remove

What HelpDesk products are available for Notes?

Thanks to Charles Ross for compiling this list :-)

Company	Product name
Alvea	Help Desk
Arcidea (bought out Synergistics)	helpdesk
Ardexus	service CARE
Automation Centre	Tracker Suite
DataWatch	Visual Help Desk
Cadence Solutions	Extended Reach�Helpdesk
CogniCase	Maximizer Enterprise Helpdesk
Eden	ProjectTrak Helpdesk
GeoCom GmbH	HelpDesk
groupapps.com	dispatch
Groupsoft Systems	Groupsoft Help Desk for Domino
GSX	GSX Help Desk
GWI	c.support
Mayflower	HelpDesk
Relavis (sells OverQuota)	eService for Domino
Techflow, Inc.	Enhanced Help Desk R4
Velocity Integration Software	VI Service Desk

It's interesting that the PLATO Notes was originally created for a help desk application (see the History of Notes)

How do you calculate the week number in a year of a given date?

This formula satisfies ISO 8601:1988:

REM "This formula satisfies ISO 8601:1988";
REM "Formulae updated : 08.28.1997 ";
REM "by Stephen P.R. Renton (sprenton@mcmail.com)";
REM "Version: 1.01";
REM "Tested on : Lotus Notes Release 4.5";

REM "D is the date of interest.";
D := @TextToTime(@Prompt([OKCANCELEDIT]; "Enter Date"; "Please enter a
date to convert to a week number:"; ""));
REM "D := [31/12/95]";

FirstOfYear := @Date(@Year(D); 1; 1);
LastOfYear := @Date(@Year(D); 12; 31);
FirstDayNum := @Weekday(FirstOfYear);
LastDayNum := @Weekday(LastOfYear);

REM "ISO weeks start on Monday and ends on Sunday.";
ISOFirstDayNum := @If(FirstDayNum = 1; 7; FirstDayNum - 1);
ISOLastDayNum := @If(LastDayNum = 1; 7; LastDayNum - 1);

REM "The first and last ISO week is the first";
REM "and last ISO week to include Thursday";
IsFirstWeek := 7 - ISOFirstDayNum > 2;
IsLastWeek := 7 - ISOLastDayNum < 4;
REM "The date of the first day of the first ISO week";
ISOFirstDay := @If(IsFirstWeek;
            @Adjust(FirstOfYear; 0; 0; 1 - ISOFirstDayNum; 0; 0; 0);
            @Adjust(FirstOfYear; 0; 0; 8 - ISOFirstDayNum; 0; 0; 0));
REM "The date of the last day of the last ISO week";
ISOLastDay := @If(IsLastWeek;
            @Adjust(LastOfYear; 0; 0; 7 - ISOLastDayNum; 0; 0; 0);
            @Adjust(LastOfYear; 0; 0; -ISOLastDayNum; 0; 0; 0));

REM "Date outside ISOFirstDay and ISOlastDay";
REM "are from the previous or next year";
REM "Return the ISO week number and exit";

FirstWeekNextYear := @If(D > ISOLastDay; @Return(@Prompt([OK]; "FWNY";
@Text(@Year(D)+1) + "W01")); NULL);

REM "I suspect this is where Julian dates would be useful";
REM "A recursive call could be used in a real language";
LastWeekLastYear := (D - @Adjust(FirstOfYear; -1; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0))/60/60/24/7;
AdjustLastWeek := 1 - (LastWeekLastYear - @Integer(LastWeekLastYear));
@Set("LastWeekLastYear"; LastWeekLastYear + AdjustLastWeek);
@If(D < ISOFirstDay;
@Return(@Prompt([OK]; "LWLY"; @Text(@Year(D) - 1) + "W" +
@Text(LastWeekLastYear))); NULL);

REM "If you get this far, the date falls into an ISO week this year";
REM "Convert the difference in seconds to weeks";
NumWeeks := (D - ISOFirstDay)/60/60/24/7;

REM "Fractions indicate that the date falls";
REM "in the middle of the ISO week";
WeekAdjust := 1 - (NumWeeks - @Integer(NumWeeks));
ISOWeekNum := NumWeeks + WeekAdjust;

REM "Conform to ISO 8601 format";
Pad:=@If(ISOWeekNum<10;"0";"");
Result := @Text(@Year(D))+"W"+Pad+@Text(ISOWeekNum);

@Prompt([OK];"Week number"; Result)

Here is another version that gives you a week number in another ISO format:

REM "Formulae Calculate the Week Number(01-53) for any Date. ";
REM "The output follows the ISO 8601:1988 standard: ex 1997-W31-4 for 1997.07.31 ";
REM "Formulae writer : Nikolai Aasen (nsaa@pvv.org), UNI Storebrand, Norway";
REM "Formulae written : 1997.07.30";
REM "Formulae updated : 1997.08.04";
REM "Version  : 1.03";
REM "Tested on   :Lotus Notes 4.6PreRelease2";
REM "This formulae is available in the";
REM "Lotus Notes FAQ: http://www.keysolutions.com/NotesFAQ/";
REM "More Calendar information in http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip10160/calendar.html"; 
REM "ISO 8601:1988 summary at: http://quake.stanford.edu/~lyle/ISOdate/Date.html";
REM "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------";             
REM "Replace D with the date of interest.";
D := [1997.31.07];

REM "**************************";
REM"Calculate some data for this Year";
REM "**************************";
FirstOfYear := @Date(@Year(D); 1; 1);
LastOfYear := @Date(@Year(D); 12; 31);
FirstDayNum := @Weekday(FirstOfYear);
REM "ISO weeks start on Monday and ends on Sunday.";
ISOFirstDayNum := @If(FirstDayNum = 1; 7; FirstDayNum - 1);

REM " Week 1 of any year is the week that contains the first Thursday in January.";
REM "=1 if 1. jan = man - thu. WeekNumber is then 1, else 0";
IsFirstWeek := 7- ISOFirstDayNum >2;

REM "The first Monday after 1. jan this Year";
FirstMonday := 9 - ISOFirstDayNum;

REM "Number of Days from 1. jan to D";
DaysToDateD:=(D-FirstOfYear)/60/60/24+1;

REM "Number of days in Year(either 365 or 366)";
DaysInYear:=(LastOfYear-FirstOfYear)/60/60/24;

REM "Number of Weeks in Year. Most years have 52 weeks, but years that start on a 
Thursday and leapyears that start on a Wednesday have 53 weeks.";
NumberOfWeeksThisYear:=@If( (ISOFirstDayNum=4 | (ISOFirstDayNum=3 & 
DaysInYear=366));53;52 );

REM "***************************";
REM"Calculate some data for last Year  ";
REM "***************************";
FirstOfLastYear := @Date(@Year(D)-1; 1; 1);
LastOfLastYear := @Date(@Year(D)-1; 12; 31);
FirstDayNumLast := @Weekday(FirstOfLastYear);
REM "ISO weeks start on Monday and ends on Sunday.";
ISOFirstDayNumLast := @If(FirstDayNumLast = 1; 7; FirstDayNumLast - 1);

REM "Number of days in Year(either 365 or 366)";
DaysInYearLast:=(LastOfLastYear-FirstOfLastYear)/60/60/24;

REM "Number of Weeks Last Year. Most years have 52 weeks, but years that start on a 
Thursday and leapyears that start on a Wednesday have 53 weeks.";
NumberOfWeeksLastYear:=@If( (ISOFirstDayNumLast=4 | (ISOFirstDayNumLast =3 & 
DaysInYearLast=366));53;52 );

REM "************************";
REM"Calculates the Week Number  ";
REM "************************";

DDayNum := @Weekday(D);
ISODDayNum := @If(DDayNum = 1; 7; DDayNum - 1);

REM"Is D in the last Week of the last Year?";
DayInLastWeek := @If((DaysToDateD<FirstMonday & IsFirstWeek = 0);
                                @Return( @Text(@Year(D)-1)+"-W"+@Text(NumberOfWeeksLastYear)+"-"+@Text(ISODDayNum));
                                 NULL);

REM "Calculate number of Complete Weeks Between D and 1.jan";
ComplNumWeeks:=@Integer((DaysToDateD-FirstMonday)/7);

REM "Are there remaining days?";
RemainingDays:=@If( (DaysToDateD+1-(FirstMonday+7*ComplNumWeeks))>0);

NumWeeks:= IsFirstWeek+ComplNumWeeks+1;

Out :=
@If(RemainingDays;
@If( (NumWeeks>52 & NumWeeks>NumberOfWeeksThisYear );
         @Return(@Text(@Year(D)+1)+"-W01-"+ @Text(ISODDayNum));
          @Return(@Text(@Year(D))+"-W"+@Right("0"+@Text(NumWeeks);2)+"-"+@Text(ISODDayNum))); 
@Return(@Text(@Year(D))+"-W"+@Right("0"+@Text(NumWeeks-1);2) +"-"+@Text(ISODDayNum)));
Out

This LotusScript version comes from Christian Meis:

'CalculateWeekNumbers:

Option Declare

Sub Initialize
     
%REM
This short agent shows how the calendar week
function can be implemented.

Christian Meis, 09.04.1999
E-Mail: Christian.Meis@mlc.de
%END REM
     
  Dim dateval As Variant
  Dim test As String
     
  dateval = Cdat( Inputbox( "Please enter date: " ) )
  test = GetCalendarWeek( dateval )
     
  Messagebox( Cstr( dateval ) & " --> " & test )
     
End Sub

Function GetCalendarWeek( Byval inputdate As Variant ) As String
     
%REM
This function calculates the calendar week number 
(ISO standard) for a given date value. The format
function of LotusScript (parameter "ww") does not solve 
this problem.

Monday is the first day of the week. Week #1 is the week 
that contains the 4th of January (ISO 8601). The week at the
end/beginning of the year belongs to the next/previous year,
if there are 3 days or less of that week in the year in question.

Christian Meis, 4.2.2000
%END REM
     
  Dim InputDateOffset As Integer
  Dim YearInQuestion As Integer
  Dim January4 As Variant
  Dim January4Offset As Integer
  Dim FirstMondayOfYear As Variant
  Dim January1Offset As Integer
  Dim December31Offset As Integer
  Dim weeknum As Integer
     
  ' The year value is preset with that of the input date
  YearInQuestion = Year( inputdate )
     
  ' Calculate offset to monday from the input date
  InputDateOffset = CalculateIsoWeekday( inputdate )
     
  ' Calculate offsets for the first/last day of the year
  January1Offset = CalculateIsoWeekday( Cdat( "01.01." & Cstr( YearInQuestion ) ) )
  December31Offset = CalculateIsoWeekday( Cdat( "31.12." & Cstr( YearInQuestion  ) ) ) 
     
  ' If the input date is before the 4th of January and the year starts with
  ' a friday, saturday or sunday, the week belongs to the previous year
  ' if the entered date is not a monday or tuesday
  If Month( inputdate ) = 1 And Day( inputdate ) < 4 And January1Offset> 3 And InputDateOffset > 1 Then
    YearInQuestion = YearInQuestion - 1
  End If

  ' If the input date is after the 28th of December and the year ends with
  ' a monday, tuesday or wednesday, then the week belongs to the following year
  ' if the entered date is not a saturday or sunday
  If Month( inputdate ) = 12 And Day( inputdate ) > 28 And December31Offset < 3 And InputDateOffset < 5 Then
    YearInQuestion = YearInQuestion + 1
  End If
     
  ' The 4th of January defines week #1
  January4 = Cdat( "04.01." & Cstr( YearInQuestion ) )
     
  ' Offset to the monday of week #1 
  FirstMondayOfYear = Cdat( January4 - CalculateIsoWeekday( January4 ) )
     
  ' The time range between the monday of week #1 and the monday
  ' of the week in question is divided by 7, plus 1 for the first week
  weeknum = ( inputdate - InputDateOffset - FirstMondayOfYear ) \ 7 + 1
     
  ' The return value is a string with the week number and the year
  GetCalendarWeek = Cstr( weeknum ) & " " & Cstr( YearInQuestion )
     
End Function

Function CalculateIsoWeekday( tmpdate As Variant ) As Integer
     
%REM
This function converts the weekday-numbers from the
standard function to an offset acc. to the ISO version
monday -> 0, ... , sunday -> 6
%END REM
     
  Dim n As Integer
     
  n = Weekday( tmpdate )
   
  If n = 1 Then ' sunday to end of week
    n = n + 7
  End If
     
  CalculateIsoWeekday = n - 2
     
End Function

This version for 53 week years comes from Bill Westaway (Bill.Westaway@fmr.com):

The following "week of the year" formula was adopted from the set that shows on your web site.
It is for applications that require 53 week years because the last few days of the year still occur in a calendar year (government reporting or payroll support would be good examples). 2002 is a good example of a 53 week year.
(you can actually get a 54th week by this definition - this formula will also work then)

The formula works in views, fields, and agents and should work for every Notes/Domino release 3.0 and greater.

As was your formula -- it's "Monday" based.

I've used your padding concept for text conversion at the end. I normally leave it in numeric form and convert to text only when I need to combine with other text, as is done in the example below.

I've tried to keep this fairly efficient (I think I might be able to improve on the WeekOfYear_Gross variable formula)

REM { routine to figure out the week of the year a given date falls into --- for those applications that require a 53 week year};
REM { (i.e. those applications where the last week of the year is the first few days of the week that};
REM {    splits across a year end boundary};
REM { it's also true that the first week of the year is defined as the last days of the week that splits across a year end boundary.};
REM {   Its actually possible to get 54 week years by this definition!};

REM { Set the below Variable (SourceDate) to the value of the field that contains the date we will work on};

SourceDate := CompletedOnDist;

REM {First fugure out what the first day of the year in question is.};

FirstOfYear := @Date(@Year(SourceDate); 1; 1);
FirstDayNum_SundayBased := @Weekday(FirstOfYear);
FirstDayNum_MondayBased := @If(FirstDayNum_SundayBased = 1; 7;
FirstDayNum_SundayBased -1);

REM {Then get the week of the year for this date};
WeekOfYear_Gross := @Integer(@Integer(((@Date(SourceDate) - FirstOfYear) / (86400)) + 1) / 7) +1;

REM {Then adjust the week because the first day of they year may not fall on Monday};

DayOfWeek := @Weekday(SourceDate);
WeekOfYearNum := @If(DayOfWeek >= FirstDayNum_MondayBased;
WeekOfYear_Gross; WeekOfYear_Gross + 1);

Pad := @If(WeekOfYearNum < 10; "0"; ""); "Week " + Pad + @Text(WeekOfYearNum)

Stewart Clow (SCLOW@uk.ibm.com) modified Bill Westerly's formula to start weeks on Monday (the UK standard) instead of Sunday (the US standard):

REM { Returns the days at the start of the year up to Sunday as Week 1. Weeks start on Monday. FYI: 1984 is 54 weeks!

i.e. always returns week number for current year, rather than ISO week which can be week number for previous/next year. }

SourceDate := @Date(2009; 1; 11);

Jan1 := @Date(@Year(SourceDate); 1; 1);

DaysSinceJan1 := 1 + (SourceDate - Jan1) / 86400;
Jan1Weekday_SundayIs1 := @Weekday(Jan1);

Jan1Weekday_MondayIs1 := @If(Jan1Weekday_SundayIs1 = 1; 7; Jan1Weekday_SundayIs1 - 1);

WeekNum := @Integer((5 + DaysSinceJan1 + Jan1Weekday_MondayIs1) / 7);

PadChar := @If(WeekNum < 10; "0"; "");

"Week " + PadChar + @Text(WeekNum)

How do you display a custom image in a Notes view?

Editor's note: this sounds like an unsupported "feature" in R5. Use at your own risk, as it may change in future versions.

This is from Sushanta Kumar Manna's Notes Advisor Tip:

1. In the PostSave Event of the form, get the RichText Filed and set the IsSummary Value to true (normally this is set to false for all RichText Items). This example uses an RTF named "Picture":

Sub Postsave(Source As Notesuidocument)
  Dim doc As NotesDocument
  Dim item As NotesItem
  Set doc = Source.Document
  Set item = doc.GetFirstItem("Picture")
  item.IsSummary = True
  Call doc.Save(False,True)
End Sub

2. Compose the form.

3. Insert a image resource in a rich text field using the Create|Image Image Resource menu option. Do not just import an picture as this will give you the Red Box of Death (RBOD).

4. Save the document.

5. Now Create a view for the specific form and map the Rich text field "Picture" to the first column and don't forget to tick the column property "Display value as Icons".

6. Now you can view your image in the first column of the view.

Here's a tip from Stephen Knight on how to use image resources to do something similar:

You add an image resource then put the name of that resource in the column -- this can be a literal, i.e. "logo.gif" or a fieldname to make the image variable.� Then just tick the box "display as icon" and it appears....� the image needs to be the correct size and you have to extend the row height to a suitable number... shrink to fit doesn't work. You can also include multiple images using a multi-value field or list in the column, tick the box saying "display multiple values as separate entries", sort the column, and they all appear.

Can you stop the refresh view indicator for displaying if you use @Today in a view?

This is an undocumented workaround. If you use this formula code:

  Today := @TextToTime("Today");

The view will still get updated daily, but the refresh view indicator will not be displayed.

How do you synchronize custom databases with PDAs?

Lotus' Domino Everyplace Enterprise Services (DEES) was the latest attempt by Lotus to do this. It was supposed to ship when R6 was released, but has disappeared from any mention. The Websphere Everyplace Access (WEA) PDA client is the next attempt at it, but it won't be available until the R7 timeframe (late 2004 at the earliest :-)

In the meantime, you should look at these tried and true applications:
Pylon Pro
mForms
OneBridge Mobile Data Suite

How do you debug Notes/Domino Java Agents using Eclipse?
Ian Conner wrote a great article on this:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes-eclipse/

Bob Balaban also has an article on this:

http://www.looseleaf.net/looseleaf/lsihome.nsf/612ad3d77c83a706852567e7006b9a50/719a8d01b564680085256ebb007dfadc

How do you copy a view/folder's design into another view/folder?

You can use this function that is new to R6:
@UpdateViewDesign(targetView, sourceView)

This will copy the design from one view or folder to another view/folder.

How do you show the search bar automatically in a specific view?
In that view's PostOpen event, set the code type to @formula and use this:

    @Command([ViewShowSearchBar]; "1")

This will put the focus on the search bar. If you want to put it on the view, add this line afterwards:

    @Command( [OpenView]; "NameOfThisView" )

How do you specify database categories in Domain Full-Text Search?
In the query, you have to compare the "DbCategories" field to the categories you want to include. For example:

[DbCategories] Contains ("Category1" OR "Category2")) AND (<FTSearchExpression>)

What Are Domino's Field Size Limits?
You can find the answers in Mike Woolsey and Ben Langhinrichs' Domino Size Limits page.

How do you do an SSL POST from a Java Agent?
From Karl Merckel on the Notes forums:

This solution uses HttpClient and JSSE which you can download from these sources:

HttpClient:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/index.html

Dependancies:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/dependencies.html

JSSE1.3
http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-103.html

After downloading and unzipping the packages retrieve the following JAR files and put them in jvm\lib\ext

commons-httpclient-3.0.jar
commons-logging.jar
commons-codec-1.3.jar
junit.jar

jcert.jar
jnet.jar
jsse.jar

One last step and I am not sure if this is neccassary:

Modify the java.security document (in /jvm/lib/security) and add a security provider : com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider.
Example :
security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun
security.provider.2=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider

Modify the java.policy document (in jvm/lib/security) and add a permission :
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "write";

This solution work in ND6+ because it needs JDK 1.3+.

Here is some sample code:

import lotus.domino.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.InputStreamRequestEntity;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase {

  public void NotesMain() {

    try {
      Session session = getSession();
      AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

      HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
      PostMethod post = new PostMethod("https://yourdomain.com?action=login&username=whatever");

      try {
        int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
        // Display status code
        System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
        // Display response
        System.out.println("Response body: ");
        System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
      } finally {
        // Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
        post.releaseConnection();
      }
    } catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Can you use Notes objects in LS2J Java code?
No. All Notes/Domino backend classes should only be accessed by Lotuscript when you call Java code using LS2J.

In Lotuscript code, all NotesSessions objects point to the same object as well (despite being created multiple times using New NotesSession), so there is no need to pass it to different functions.
However, in Java, you can have multiple JavaSession objects, so you should be passing a single JavaSession object to different Java methods to avoid wasting system resources.

How do you create a database that contains encrypted web-submitted documents?

You can do this two ways, depending on whether you can encrypt this for a specific list of users or if you need to allow a changing group of users to do it.

For a changing group of users, you can use a mail-in database set that is set to encrypt incoming mail:
1) Create a new key pair
2) Extract public key from this pair
3) Paste puclic key into the public key field of the mail-in DB document
4) For the mail-in DB, enable the option to automatically encrypt incoming mail
5) When the form is submitted, have your agent mail the document to the mail-in DB
6) Distribute the key pair to any user who needs to see the encrypted data
This has the problem of not being able to revoke the key from users who no longer should see the encrypted data (you can't guarantee the user didn't make a backup of their user.id file if you delete the encryption key from their current ID)

For a specific list of users, your webquerysave agent can do this:

'create empty secret and public encryption key items
Set itemPublicKeys = New NotesItem(doc, "PublicEncryptionKeys", "")
Set itemSecretKeys = New NotesItem(doc, "SecretEncryptionKeys", "")
'add public keys of users
Call itemPublicKeys.AppendToTextList(<array of user names>)
'encrypt the note with the above public keys
Call doc.Encrypt()
'remove the dummy SecretEncryptionKeys item and save
Call doc.RemoveItem("SecretEncryptionKeys")
Call doc.Save(True, False, True)

This solution is problematic if the user list changes because all the old documents would have to be re-encrypted for the new list of users.

How do you output a PDF from Notes?

There are a few solutions for this:
- DominoPDF (uses the HTTP task to help convert documents to PDF)
- N2PDF (an export-filter add-in for Notes)
- PDF995 (a PDF driver with COM automation under Windows)

How do you create a NotesDocumentCollection?
A NotesDocumentCollection is useful for storing a set of documents that you later want to put into a folder or delete; it's a lot faster to make one call than to delete or folder documents one at a time. Unfortunately, there's no simple way to do this such as "Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection" which is what most people would try. Instead, you have to get it by using one of the search collection APIs with a key that can't be found such as this:

Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection
Set dc = session.CurrentDatabase.GetProfileDocCollection("nonexistingform")

or by doing this:

Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Dim view As NotesView
Set view = db.GetView("($All)")
Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection
Set dc = view.GetAllDocumentsByKey("12345") ' non-existent key

How Do the C&S Forms/Fields Work Together?

You can find out from the documentation for the schema:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/dw-l-calendarschema.html

How do you create tables with rounded corners in Notes?

This is a popular thing to do in the web world, but you can do it by simply creating a gif image that is a rounded rectangle. Then you apply it to a table's properties as a border image. The Notes client will overlay this image over the borders of your table and you magically get a rounded table displayed in the Notes client.

This is covered in several blogs:
- nsftools
- Geniisoft
- BizzyBee

How do you disable NSD so exceptions go to Visual Studio?
If you add
APIDeveloper=1
to your Notes client's notes.ini, NSD will be disabled and the current JIT (Just In Time) debugger (usually Visual Studio) will be invoked.

You can also do "nsd -detach" if you're running Domino 8.x and above which uses a Windows service for NSD.

What causes "Entry Not Found In Index" Errors?
This is generally caused by @DbLookup/@DbColumn on a view and the lookup key is not found.
However, it can also be caused by a save/replication conflict in the same view used for the lookups. If this is true, you can add "(!@IsAvailable($Conflict))" to the view selection formula to exclude conflicts.
It can also be caused by the view setting "Generate Unique Keys in Index for ODBC" if there's a replication conflict in the same view. In this case, you'll get an error if you try to open the view but you don't see any formulas or events that are doing any lookups.

How do you track who deleted a document?
From Dirk Hamilton:
This is used to log each document deletion. It creates a log document which is displayed in a "deletion log" view so users can clearly see who deleted each document instead of pointing fingers :-)

Sub Postdocumentdelete(Source As Notesuidatabase)
  Dim s As New notessession
  Dim db As notesdatabase
  Dim d3 As notesdocument
  Dim c As notesdocumentcollection
  Dim d As notesdocument
  Set db = s.currentdatabase
  Set c = source.documents
  Set d = c.getfirstdocument
  Do 
    f = d.form
    If f(0) = "log" Then Goto skipper
    i = d.issue
    p = d.pkey
    'create log entry
    Set d3 = db.createdocument
    d3.form = "log"
    d3.when = Now
    d3.who = Evaluate("@Name([CN];@V3UserName)")
    d3.what = "Deleted a document. Form = " + f(0) + " :: issue = " + i(0) + " :: pkey = " + p(0)
    Call d3.save(True,False)
   skipper:
    Set d = c.getnextdocument(d)
  Loop Until d Is Nothing
End Sub

How Do You Run Console Commands From Lotuscript?

Here's an example of code (from Daniel Nashed) on how you can issue Remote Console commands from Lotuscript:

Dim rcmd_server As String
Dim rcmd_command As String     
Dim rcmd_result as String

rcmd_server = "notes.nashcom.de"
rcmd_command = "show server"

Dim remoteConsole As New RemoteConsole (rcmd_server)

recmd_result = remoteConsole.Execute (rcmd_command)

REM W32 De

clares
Declare Function W32_NSFRemoteConsole Lib "NNOTES.DLL" Alias "NSFRemoteConsole" (Byval server As Lmbcs String, Byval cmd As Lmbcs String, ret As Long) As Integer
Declare Function W32_OSLockObject  Lib "NNOTES.DLL" Alias "OSLockObject" (Byval handle As Long) As Lmbcs String
Declare Sub W32_OSUnlockObject  Lib "NNOTES.DLL" Alias "OSUnlockObject" (Byval handle As Long) 
Declare Sub W32_OSMemFree  Lib "NNOTES.DLL" Alias "OSMemFree" (Byval handle As Long)
Declare Function W32_OSLoadString Lib "NNOTES.DLL" Alias "OSLoadString" (Byval hModule As Long, Byval stringCode As Integer, _
Byval retBuffer As Lmbcs String, Byval bufferLen As Integer) As Integer

REM MAC Declares
Declare Function MAC_NSFRemoteConsole Lib "NotesLib" Alias "NSFRemoteConsole" (Byval server As Lmbcs String, Byval cmd As Lmbcs String, ret As Integer) As Integer
Declare Function MAC_OSLockObject  Lib "NotesLib" Alias "OSLockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) As Lmbcs String
Declare Sub MAC_OSUnlockObject  Lib "NotesLib" Alias "OSUnlockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) 
Declare Sub MAC_OSMemFree  Lib "NotesLib" Alias "OSMemFree" (Byval handle As Integer)
Declare Function MAC_OSLoadString Lib "NotesLib" Alias "OSLoadString" (Byval hModule As Integer, Byval stringCode As Integer, _
Byval retBuffer As Lmbcs String, Byval bufferLen As Integer) As Integer

REM Linux Declares
Declare Function LINUX_NSFRemoteConsole Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "NSFRemoteConsole" (Byval server As Lmbcs String, Byval cmd As Lmbcs String, ret As Long) As Integer
Declare Function LINUX_OSLockObject  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSLockObject" (Byval handle As Long) As Lmbcs String
Declare Sub LINUX_OSUnlockObject  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSUnlockObject" (Byval handle As Long) 
Declare Sub LINUX_OSMemFree  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSMemFree" (Byval handle As Long)
Declare Function LINUX_OSLoadString Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSLoadString" (Byval hModule As Long, Byval stringCode As Integer, _
Byval retBuffer As Lmbcs String, Byval bufferLen As Integer) As Integer

REM AIX Declares
Declare Function AIX_NSFRemoteConsole Lib "libnotes_r.a" Alias "NSFRemoteConsole" (Byval server As Lmbcs String, Byval cmd As Lmbcs String, ret As Integer) As Integer
Declare Function AIX_OSLockObject  Lib "libnotes_r.a" Alias "OSLockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) As Lmbcs String
Declare Sub AIX_OSUnlockObject  Lib "libnotes_r.a" Alias "OSUnlockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) 
Declare Sub AIX_OSMemFree  Lib "libnotes_r.a" Alias "OSMemFree" (Byval handle As Integer)
Declare Function AIX_OSLoadString Lib "libnotes_r.a" Alias "OSLoadString" (Byval hModule As Integer, Byval stringCode As Integer, _
Byval retBuffer As Lmbcs String, Byval bufferLen As Integer) As Integer

REM Solaris Declares
Declare Function SOLARIS_NSFRemoteConsole Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "NSFRemoteConsole" (Byval server As Lmbcs String, Byval cmd As Lmbcs String, ret As Integer) As Integer
Declare Function SOLARIS_OSLockObject  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSLockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) As Lmbcs String
Declare Sub SOLARIS_OSUnlockObject  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSUnlockObject" (Byval handle As Integer) 
Declare Sub SOLARIS_OSMemFree  Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSMemFree" (Byval handle As Integer)
Declare Function SOLARIS_OSLoadString Lib "libnotes.so" Alias "OSLoadString" (Byval hModule As Integer, Byval stringCode As Integer, _
Byval retBuffer As Lmbcs String, Byval bufferLen As Integer) As Integer

Class RemoteConsole
Public IsError As Variant
Private rc As Integer
Private Long_hBuffer As Long
Private Integer_hBuffer As Integer
Private Server As String
Private Command As String
Private Result As String

Sub New (InputServer As String)
 If InputServer = "" Then
  Me.IsError = True
 Else
  Me.Server = InputServer
  Me.IsError = False
 End If
End Sub

Function get_platform () As String
 
 Dim tmp_platform As Variant
 Dim lower_platform As String

 tmp_platform = Evaluate(|@Implode(@Platform([Specific]);" ")|)
 
 lower_platform = Lcase(Cstr(tmp_platform(0)))
 
 REM Messagebox Cstr(tmp_platform(0))
 
 If (Instr (lower_platform, "aix")) Then
  get_platform = "aix"
 Elseif (Instr (lower_platform, "solaris")) Then
  get_platform = "solaris"
 Elseif (Instr (lower_platform, "linux")) Then
  get_platform = "linux"
 Elseif (Instr (lower_platform, "win")) Then
  get_platform = "w32"
 Elseif (Instr (lower_platform, "mac")) Then
  get_platform = "mac"
 Else 
  Messagebox "Unsupported Platform : >" +  lower_platform + "<"
  get_platform = ""
 End If
End Function

Function Execute (InputCommand As String) As String
 
 Dim StrLen As Integer 
 Dim errorStr As String * 1024
 
 Dim Session As New NotesSession
 Dim platform As String
 
 platform =  get_platform
 
 REM Messagebox session.platform
 REM Messagebox platform
 
 If Me.Server = "" Then 
  Me.Execute = "No server specified"
  Me.IsError = True
  Exit Function
 End If          
 
 If InputCommand = "" Then
  Me.Execute = "No command specified"
  Me.IsError = True
  Exit Function
 End If
 
 Me.command = InputCommand + Chr (0)
 Me.server = Me.server + Chr(0)
 
 Select Case platform
 Case "w32"
  Me.rc = W32_NSFRemoteConsole (Me.Server, Me.Command, Long_hBuffer)
 Case "mac"
  Me.rc = MAC_NSFRemoteConsole (Me.Server, Me.Command, Integer_hBuffer)
 Case "linux"
  Me.rc = LINUX_NSFRemoteConsole (Me.Server, Me.Command, Long_hBuffer)
 Case "aix"
  Me.rc = AIX_NSFRemoteConsole (Me.Server, Me.Command, Integer_hBuffer)  
 Case "solaris"
  Me.rc = SOLARIS_NSFRemoteConsole (Me.Server, Me.Command, Integer_hBuffer)  
 Case Else
  Exit Function
 End Select
 
 If (Me.rc <> 0) Then
  Me.IsError = True
  
  Select Case platform
  Case "w32"
   StrLen = w32_OSLoadString(0&, Me.rc, errorStr , Len(errorStr) - 1)
  Case "mac"
   StrLen = MAC_OSLoadString(0&, Me.rc, errorStr , Len(errorStr) - 1)
  Case "linux"
   StrLen = LINUX_OSLoadString(0&, Me.rc, errorStr , Len(errorStr) - 1)
  Case "aix"
   StrLen = AIX_OSLoadString(0&, Me.rc, errorStr , Len(errorStr) - 1)
  Case "solaris"
   StrLen = SOLARIS_OSLoadString(0&, Me.rc, errorStr , Len(errorStr) - 1)
  Case Else
   Exit Function
  End Select
  
  If (StrLen = 0 ) Then
   errorStr = ""
  End If
  Me.Result= "Error: [" & Cstr (rc) & "] " + errorStr
 Else
  
  Select Case platform
  Case "w32"
   Me.Result = W32_OsLockObject (Long_hBuffer) + Chr (0)
   Call W32_OSUnlockObject (Long_hBuffer)
   Call W32_OsMemFree (Long_hBuffer)
  Case "mac"
   Me.Result = MAC_OsLockObject (Integer_hBuffer) + Chr (0)
   Call MAC_OSUnlockObject (Integer_hBuffer)
   Call MAC_OsMemFree (Integer_hBuffer)
  Case "linux"
   Me.Result = LINUX_OsLockObject (Long_hBuffer) + Chr (0)
   Call LINUX_OSUnlockObject (Long_hBuffer)
   Call LINUX_OsMemFree (Long_hBuffer)
  Case "aix"
   Me.Result = AIX_OsLockObject (Integer_hBuffer) + Chr (0)
   Call AIX_OSUnlockObject (Integer_hBuffer)
   Call AIX_OsMemFree (Integer_hBuffer)
  Case "solaris"
   Me.Result = SOLARIS_OsLockObject (Integer_hBuffer) + Chr (0)
   Call SOLARIS_OSUnlockObject (Integer_hBuffer)
   Call SOLARIS_OsMemFree (Integer_hBuffer)
  Case Else
   Exit Function
  End Select
  
  Me.IsError = False
 End If
 Me.Execute = Me.Result
End Function
End Class

How do you find out if a document has been foldered?
You can use the FolderReferences property of a document to do this. This code will put all documents that have not been foldered into a new "Lost Documents" folder:

Sub Initialize
  Dim sess As New NotesSession
  Dim db As NotesDatabase
  Set db = sess.CurrentDatabase
  db.FolderReferencesEnabled = True
  Dim coll As NotesDocumentCollection
  Set coll = db.AllDocuments
 
  Set doc = coll.GetFirstDocument
 
  While Not(doc Is Nothing)
    i = 0
    If doc.FolderReferences(0) <> "" Then 'doc is in at least one folder, so pull it from this collection
      Call coll.DeleteDocument(doc) 'just pulls it from the folder)
    End If
    Set doc = coll.GetNextDocument(doc)
  Wend
  Call coll.PutAllInFolder("Lost Documents") 'all those that remain in the collection
End Sub

How do you export to an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet?

From Frank Strunzkus:

This example goes through a notes view and exports some fields of each notes document into a table row in openoffice calc.

You can choose if the user should be able or not to see the OpenOffice application while the export agent is running. Once the OO file is ready it will be saved to harddisk.

My example requires a oo calc file that will be used as a template. This template will be filled with data comming from notes. (Google for examples, if you prefer to create a empty file rather than using a preformatted one like I prefer.)

To test my demo you first need to create the template file on your C: drive. Create a simple empty .ods file. My example requires that there is a at least one table in the file that has the name "Sheet1".

Option Public
Option Declare

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Class OOProperties 

'I found this class in the OpenOffice forum and found it very usefull. Thanks for sharing it!

'This clase can be used to pass properties to OO Objects
'E.g. pass the Hidden=True property to the app object to run the application in the background
'If you do not have to set properties, you do not mandatory need this class in your code

Private vProp() As Variant 
Private app As Variant 
Private vStruct As Variant 
Private bInz As Integer 

Sub new() 
  Set App = createobject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")
  Set vStruct = App.Bridge_GetStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue") 
End Sub 

Sub addProperty(sName As String, vValue As Variant) 
  If bInz Then 
    Redim Preserve vProp(Ubound(vProp) + 1) 
  Else 
    Redim vProp(0) 
  End If 
  bInz = True 
  vStruct.Name = sName 
  vStruct.Value = vValue 
  Set vProp(Ubound(vProp)) = vStruct 
End Sub 

Property Get Values() 
  If Not bInz Then 
    Me.addProperty "Dummy!", 0 
    bInz = True 
  End If 
  Values = vProp 
End Property 

End Class

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Sub Initialize
  Dim session As New NotesSession
  Dim ws As New NotesUIWorkspace
  Dim fileOo As String

  Dim args() As Variant

  Dim prop As New OOProperties 

  Dim App As Variant
  Dim objCoreReflection As Variant
  Dim objDesktop As Variant
  Dim objDocument As Variant
  Dim objSheet As Variant
  Dim cell As Variant

  Dim db As notesdatabase 
  Set db = ws.CurrentDatabase.Database

  Dim view As NotesView 'The notes view that contains the data to export
  Set view = db.GetView("allpersons")

  Dim doc As NotesDocument 'A notes document that contains data to be exported
  Set doc = view.GetFirstDocument

'The filename of a file that should be used as a template. 
'Using a template allows you to define columnheaders, set colors and add logos etc. in advance.
'You can even prepare charts that display your data from Notes graphically
'I normany use a function to export the template file from my notes database to the filesystem first.
'Remember that Openoffice uses / not \ you might have to convert your filepath. 
  fileOo = "C:/MyEmptyTemplateFile.ods" 

'Create objects that are required to work with openoffice
  Set App = createobject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") 'The servicemanager

  Set objCoreReflection= App.createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")
  Set objDesktop = App.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") 'The main desktop object

  prop.addProperty "Hidden", True 'Decide to run Openoffice hidden in background or visible to the user

  Set objDocument = objDesktop.loadComponentFromURL("

file:///"+fileOo,"_blank", 0, prop.Values) 'Load the file

  Set objSheet = objDocument.Sheets.getByName("Sheet1") 'Define which Sheet to process. This sheet must exist in the template

  objDocument.CurrentController.setActiveSheet(objSheet) 

  Dim rowposition As Integer 'current spreadsheet row
  Dim colposition As Integer 'current spreadsheet column

  rowposition = 3 'Note that the array starts at 0, to adress the first spreedsheet row 1 set rowposition = 0

  While Not doc Is Nothing 
    colposition = 0

    Print "Preparing Spreadsheet, please wait! Processing "+ doc.Lastname(0)

    Call InsertSpreedsheetCellValue (objSheet, colposition ,rowposition, doc.Firstname(0))
    Call InsertSpreedsheetCellValue (objSheet, colposition ,rowposition, doc.Lastname(0))

    rowposition = rowposition+1
    Set doc = view.GetNextDocument(doc)
  Wend
  Call objDocument.Store
  Call objDocument.close( True )

  Msgbox "Your file is ready! "+fileOo

End Sub

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Sub InsertSpreedsheetCellValue (objSheet As Variant, colposition As Integer, rowposition As Integer, fieldvalue As String)

  Dim cell As Variant
  Set Cell = objSheet.getCellByPosition(colposition, rowposition)
  Cell.String = FieldValue
  colposition = colposition+1

End Sub

How do you open a File Dialog in LotusScript?
Use the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog methods in the NotesUIWorkspace class.

How do you edit a rich text field in an open document and redisplay it?
From Andre Guirard:

Dim wksp As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument, uidocNew As NotesUIDocument
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim rti As NotesRichTextItem
Dim strFieldname As String
Set uidoc = wksp.CurrentDocument
uidoc.Refresh True ' do this if the rich text field is editable, to get the current contents in case user has modified them.
Set doc = uidoc.Document �' get the back-end document for the document open on screen.
strFieldname = uidoc.CurrentField ' remember the current field if any
Set rti = doc.GetFirstItem("fieldname") ' insert your fieldname here, generally "Body"
' Make your rich text changes here, for instance:
Call rti.AddNewLine(1, True)
Call rti.AppendText(Now & ": log entry.")
If session.NotesBuildVersion >= 190 Then
rti.Update ' ND6 only
Else
Call doc.ComputeWithForm(True, False) ' caution, as this may erase some field values if you have @Db functions in formulas.
End If
doc.SaveOptions = "0" ' make it possible to close the document without a "do you want to save" prompt. If this is a mail-in doc you may need to set MailOptions="0" also to avoid being prompted.
Call uidoc.Close
Set uidocNew = wksp.EditDocument(True, doc, , , , True)
Delete uidoc
uidocNew.Document.RemoveItem("SaveOptions")
If strFieldname <> "" Then uidocNew.GotoField(strFieldname) ' return focus to field that was current before.
Note: this will cause Queryclose, Queryopen, Postopen (and so on) form events to trigger. Also, uidoc.Refresh will execute computed field formulas and input validations, so you should write the validation formulas to not return @Failure unless @IsDocBeingSaved | @IsDocBeingSent is true.

How do you find out if there is default view?
From Jens Winkelmann:

Dim docDefault As NotesDocument
Set docDefault = db.GetDocumentByID("FFFF0008")
If docDefault is Nothing then
'// default view does not exist
else
'// default view exist
end if

How do you unlock a document
If a document is locked (an R6 feature), you can unlock it by running an agent with this formula:

FIELD $Writers := @DeleteField;
FIELD $WritersDate := @DeleteField;

Companies with Notes Applications

GroupQuest Software
Application Partners
Groupware Technologies
Cambridge Software Group
Ives Development (makers of the TeamStudio Design System, application development tools for Lotus Notes and Domino; they also make Caio!, a revision control system for Notes; they also make Delta, Configurator, Design Manager, Profiler, Snapper, and Validator)
Candle/Cleversoft
Mayflower Software
Casahl Technology
Brainstorm Technologies
QDM
Binary Tree (makers of BT Migration Suite and eTeam)
Solutions By Design (makers of NavMaker, a Notes Navigator editor)
Business Evolution (makers of InteractPro, a Java chat environment for Domino)
AppJunction
Technovations International (makers of Notes capacity planning tools)
Extracomm Technologies (makers of ExtraFax)
G2 Associates (makes of ProActive Assistant, a Notes stress-testing tool)
Genii Software (makers of the Midas Rich Text LSX)
Metaware bv
Surety Technologies (makers of Digital Notary Accelerator for Lotus Domino)
GSX Groupware Solutions (makers of the GSX Administration Suite)
GlobalServe (makers of PageMe! pager gateway and Sales Accelerator: Contact
Management System)

xorTech Systems (makers of InfoSync, a client replication admin tool)
ErgoTech (makers of Act! For Notes)
Greyfriars Consulting Group, Inc. (makers of Domino business components)
DPI Services (makers of QMX, quality management software)
DataMirror (makes of a Notes/ODBC replication tool)
GFI (makers of FAX gateway, Workflow and Internet gateway software)
CommVault (makers of CommVault for Notes, a doc-level backup program)
ProjectEdge (makers of a construction project management application)
Jagre (makers of version control and change management software)
DominoAnalyzer (makers of web security analysis software)
Cassetica (makers of GroupManager, CCI, NotesMedic)
Sorites (makers of mailing list and survey software)
SoftVision makers of NotesToPaper (a reporting tool) and n2pdf (a tool to convert Notes content - including links - to the pdf format)
Colligo (makers of Lotus Notes Workgroup Edition, that lets Notes clients replicate with each other directly)