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Deny Access vs Full Access Administrators 27 Jan 2007 | 07:00 am
This is a pretty quick tip for all you administrators out there. I always thought that "Deny Access" was the be-all, end-all. But apparently not.
Turning single value processing function into multi value with @Transform 19 Jan 2007 | 07:00 am
A co-developer recently had a list of document unique ID's. He wanted to look up a value from each of the documents. His first thought was to use @GetDocField, as in @GetDocField(unidList; "Form"). ("...
Input Time Control and Time Zone 11 Jan 2007 | 07:00 am
I was helping out another developer with a problem recently. They had an input control for a time value and wanted to show the time zone. The control wasn't showing the time zone, and I helped him get...
Image With Text On Top 3 Jan 2007 | 07:00 am
When creating a new application recently, I was given a logo image by the customer to be included in the upper left corner of the application (it was a Notes client application). The customer wanted a...
Reading a MIME Entity in the C API 15 Dec 2006 | 07:00 am
I don't claim to be the best C programmer out there, but I have written DLL's, Domino server add-in tasks, and other API programs. When I was working with MIME trying to track down an issue someone wa...
Timing LotusScript Agents 6 Dec 2006 | 07:00 am
Last week I published a tip talking about how simply making sure your variables have the correct data type can speed up your application. I realized when publishing that tip that there isn't anything ...
Defining LotusScript Variants 28 Nov 2006 | 07:00 am
I keep seeing examples of LotusScript variables being defined in a way that they end up being Variant data types, so I thought I'd bring this up again as a reminder.
Document Locking and ws.EditDocument 18 Nov 2006 | 07:00 am
I haven't used document locking very much, but one customer insisted on it. Then, after implementing document locking, I ended up with a bunch of replication/save conflicts. After several hours of dig...
Launch MS Word Document 8 Nov 2006 | 07:00 am
Someone recently wanted to be able to launch a Word document that was attached to a profile. (It was a "template" that they would fill out and then attach to a new document). He tried at first to get ...
Caching when updating responses 31 Oct 2006 | 07:00 am
A friend of mine has an application that has documents in a parent-child relationship. The child documents have values that are computed based on the parent. When the parent changes, those children ne...