Understanding Lotus Notes Parent/Response document hierarchy
March 7, 2012Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Technical Articles,Tutorials
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The way that Lotus Notes manages document relationships is quite flexible and powerful but it’s also an area where you might encounter some…
Lotus Notes Profile document management and troubleshooting with scanEZ
June 6, 2011Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Technical Articles,Tips,Tutorials
4 Comments8 Minutes
Though scanEZ is very much a general purpose Lotus Notes and Domino database toolkit, folks often tell us that Profile document issues were what…
Back from the NSF grave: How you can (sometimes) restore deleted Lotus Notes documents
September 23, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Tips,Tutorials
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Notes/Domino data loss is never fun. It’s bad enough when you lose data because of random bad luck (say, cosmic rays decide to bombard your hard disk…
When the dreaded “Field is too large (32K)” Lotus Notes error strikes…
April 23, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Technical Articles,Tutorials
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There are some problems in life—and in Lotus Notes—that defy easy solutions. And one such problem is the “Field is too large (32K)” error, which…
A fast way to change NSF Replica IDs: Often a handy time-saver (and occasionally a life-saver)
March 23, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Tips
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Try to picture yourself in this situation: An end-user alerts you to the fact that they just did something very bad to a Lotus Notes database—and…
Are your Lotus Notes databases bloated with view indexes? Here’s a trick to help you cut file sizes
February 18, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Tips
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This post recounts a database optimization trick and Lotus Notes secret that was shared by Eric Houvenaghel at this year’s Lotusphere (Hat tip: it…
How *often* you click Ctrl+S can affect Lotus Notes application development
February 4, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Tips
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Continuing in our series of Lotus Notes secrets, we’d like to share a strange little tidbit about design element replication (this is one of the…
Building a Library of Lotus Notes Secrets
January 28, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets
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All you Notes pros out there, does this story sound familiar? You get stuck on something so you ask yourself, ‘why isn’t this working?’; in the…
How hiding views from the Lotus Notes client can bring a Domino server to its knees
January 28, 2010Articles for Notes Domino,IBM Notes secrets,Tips
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In Domino Designer, enabling the option to hide views from the Notes client has one very unexpected impact: It’s not just hiding the views from the…