Lotus Notes

IBM is taking a big step towards cloud computing.

The computing giant will go commercial with the Web-delivered LotusLive Engage on April 7, with the mission to help business users share information both inside and outside of the organization by melding social networking with business collaboration. That’s important, considering that one of the biggest issues with corporate unified communications is the difficulty in extending that functionality outside to suppliers, partners, customers and the like.

Geared to the small to mid-size business market, features include profile and contact management, file sharing, conferencing, instant messaging, e-mail and project management. Desktop package Lotus Notes – the main DNA behind LotusLive, as you might suspect – is used by 145 million users today. IBM expects that companies will link multiple LotusLive services with Lotus desktop for a hybrid model, as well as bring in third-party applications for cloud-based mash-up.

This is a natural for their Lotus product and it can be a logical move for some small to medium sized businesses that are looking to consolidate their I.T. departments. But this may be more of a response to Microsoft and Google and their cloud computing plans.

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Some interesting news as IBM seeks to aquire Sun Microsystems and also releases a native Linux client.  I can see why they have added Linux, along with the Mac client, to bring all clients to Notes.  But is Corporate America really waiting for this?

“IBM’s Lotus collaboration software division will for the first time offer a Lotus Notes client that runs natively on Linux, perhaps providing a needed kick to IBM’s vision of wider corporate desktop Linux use.
In an announcement Monday, Lotus said the Linux client for Notes will be available as a free download for licensed users of Notes Version 7.01 starting July 24. “[The Linux client for Notes is] something that people have really been after us about for a while,” said Arthur Fontaine, offering manager for IBM Lotus. “

See ComputerWorld for more info.

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If your Lotus system has matured over a period of time, you have found that important databases need to be moved to new servers, locations, etc. The problem is how inform your user base AND remove existing bookmarks. This small piece of code used in the Database Script, using the Postopen method, makes it easier:

@If( !(@Contains(@Subset(@DbName; 1); “old server name here“)); @Do(
@PostedCommand([FileCloseWindow]);
@PostedCommand([FileDatabaseRemove]);
@PostedCommand([FileOpenDatabase]; “new server name here“: “directory\\db_name_here.nsf“);
@PostedCommand([AddBookmark]);
@Prompt([OK]; “Database Moved To A New Location”; “The ” + @DbTitle + ” database has been moved to a new location. You will be automatically redirected to the new location.” + @Char(13) + @Char(13) + “Please click Yes in the next window (it will say \”Remove selected items?\”) You will only be asked to do this once for this database.”)
); “”)

Your thoughts, similar code, or a better way. Let me know.

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Great news about the new release of Lotus Notes 8.5. The 2 biggest highlights is the new Mac OS X Leopard client and IBM’s updated free Symphony suite of applications.

See some great highlights at Ed Brill’s blog,

Look for more info on this release.

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 Here’s a great development tip from SearchDomino.com.  If you need to capture a path to a Domino attachment, here could be viable solution.

1. Click on the file upload control field and go to “Properties.” In the HTML tab, paste the following code into the “Others” field:

   onBlur="GetValue(this)"

2. Create a text field and label it “Path.” This is where you will store the path value that you receive from the file upload control field. 
3. In the form’s JavaScript header, paste the following code:

   var uplpath ;
   function GetValue(path)
   {
      uplpath = path;
   document.forms[0].path.value = uplpath.value
   }

4. Finally, browse through the form and attach the file using the file upload control field. Notice that the path has been trapped in the previously crated “Path” text field.

See the orignal author and post:

http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid4_gci1267613,00.html?track=NL-348&ad=659906&asrc=EM_NLT_4402862 for greater detail.

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Welcome to our new Lotus Notes blog here at SmartData.  We have been providing consulting services to our clients for 16 years, through all the versions, development, administration, training and much more.  I can’t explain why we haven’t utilitzed such a great tool as a blog to connect with all interested parties on our insight, knowledge, commentary and more.  But here we are.

I hope you will enjoy our blog as we provide some great information and links to great resources to you.  Bookmark our site and see our main SmartData site (http://www.smartdata.com).

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