Back from the NSF grave: How you can (sometimes) restore deleted Lotus Notes documents
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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…
How to compare, contrast and edit Lotus Notes document field values with scanEZ
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We’re always eager to hear how customers are using our software. Oftentimes folks surprise us with novel and creative uses we never would have…
A quick way to uncover (and fill) security holes on Domino servers using aclEZ
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One of the nicest things about aclEZ‘s grouping grid interface is that is that it allows you sort and filter live information on all the Lotus Notes…
How to clean up a Lotus Notes out-of-office agent mess with agentEZ
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One of our customers recently used our agentEZ tool in an interesting way to deal with a big out-of-office agent problem. We realize that the Out of…
When the dreaded “Field is too large (32K)” Lotus Notes error strikes…
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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)
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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…
ACL inconsistencies giving you headaches? Here’s how to find and fix missing ACL entries on a Domino server using aclEZ
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Domino security is something of a mosaic, built upon, among other things, the many individual entries found in all the Notes database ACLs on a…
Are your Lotus Notes databases bloated with view indexes? Here’s a trick to help you cut file sizes
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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…
Un-dead Lotus Notes Documents: How ‘ghosts’ can haunt your databases
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Have you ever seen a deleted document mysteriously re-appear in a Lotus Notes database? If you answered “yes” you probably weren’t hallucinating ……
How *often* you click Ctrl+S can affect Lotus Notes application development
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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
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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
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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…
When Formulas Fail You: An Alternate Way to Search for Elusive Lotus Notes Documents
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It’s tough to find certain types of documents in Lotus Notes databases. For instance, a problematic application may be full of ‘orphan documents’…
Previewing Lotus Notes Database Replication with scanEZ
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Despite the many advantages that come from the Lotus Notes and Domino secure distributed environment, it’s important to remember that replication…