HCL has impressed me!  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 4/5/19 1:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

It has now been just over four months since it was announced that HCL would purchase the IP (intellectual property) of Notes, Domino, Sametime, Connections, Verse, Traveler, and several other products from IBM. When the announcement was made in 2017 that HCL would take over development and support of Notes and Domino, many IBM:ers with long experience of developing the products moved over to HCL. I talked to several of them back then, and also at the Factory Tour in July 2018. The excitement was amazing to see, it took me back to the days of Lotusphere in the early 2000’s. They were all very excited about the new opportunity to create new functions and expand/modernize the products. Very quickly the development of Domino 10 took off.

Domino 10 and Beyond – my thoughts  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 12/3/17 5:58 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

It has now been a little over a month since IBM announced the new direction of IBM Notes, Domino, Verse and Sametime. I have been thinking through what I think this means for the product and the ecosystem of third-party tools and business partners. Some people view the move of development from IBM to HCL Technologies as an abandonment of the product family. But that is not how I see it.

Who wants to live forever? IBM Notes and Domino!  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 10/25/17 1:07 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

We have heard people claiming for years that Notes and Domino is dead. Today IBM announced a move that should put those statements to a stop. IBM is partnering with HCL Technologies on the future development of IBM Notes and Domino, as well as SameTime, Verse, Traveler and the other associated products.

Updated MailNotification class – Now with HTML email support and web links  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 6/27/16 3:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

I have updated my MailNotification class with some additional functionality I needed at work. Since our mail system now is Outlook/Exchange, and therefore the Notes doc links don’t work anymore, I am in the process of converting all my email notifications into HTML email.

Free Code – Clean groups in Domino Directory  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 12/16/15 2:31 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

The other day I had to clean up the groups in our Domino Directory. Many groups still contained names of terminated users, they had not been cleaned/maintained properly. We also removed some groups over time, but some of them were still listed as members of other groups.

Calling a Notes web agent from another server using JSONP  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 11/6/15 12:33 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

In my MWLUG presentation (as well as in a couple of entries on this blog) I talk about how you can access Domino data from a regular webpage using jQuery and a Lotusscript agent returning data as JSON. The issue with this solution is that the web page must be on the same web application path as the Domino agent.

My MWLUG presentation  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 8/20/15 5:05 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I was fortunate enough to be picked to present at the MWLUG (Mid-West Lotus User Group) conference in Atlanta in Ausgust 2015. The presentation was called “Break out of the box – Integrate existing Domino data with modern websites” and below you can see the abstract:

Code – Get date range as years, months and days  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 7/4/15 11:19 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

There is a question in the IBM DeveloperWorks forum for Notes/Domino 8 about how to calculate the number of years, months and days between two dates. Then the poster wanted to calculate the sum of two such date ranges and return that as years, months and days as well.

Code – Read from and Write to Windows Registry in Lotusscript  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 6/23/15 10:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

A question was posted in the IBM DeveloperWorks forum for Notes/Domino 8 about the possibility to detect from within Notes if a computer is equipped with a touch screen. The answer was that you have to check if a specific DLL is installed, which is done though the registry.

File Upload in Classic Domino Web using jQuery and Bootstrap  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 1/8/15 11:23 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

This week I was asked to create a simple web form where customers could fill out a few fields, attach two files and submit it for review. The document with the information and attachments are saved into a Domino database, so it can be processed thought the Notes client by the internal staff. These days I mainly use Bootstrap (and jQuery) to design the webpages, since Bootstrap makes it very quick and easy to get a nice clean look of the page

Free Code – Class to read URL name-value pairs  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 11/20/14 11:32 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

Here is another little code snippet I want to share. I use it all the time in my Lotusscript-based Domino web agents, and I figured that other could benefit from it as well. It is just an easy way to check for and read the name-value pairs (arguments) passed from the browser to the web server by HTTP GET or POST calls.

Free Software – Password Reset for Notes/Domino  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 9/24/14 5:08 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Earlier this year I was asked to research some alternatives for a web-based password reset function at my work. One of the larger support burdens are users who forget the passwords, especially in the first few days after changing it. We have a 90 day password lifespan, then a new password need to be picked. Some users wait until the last minute, which usually is Friday afternoon right before they go home, making it very likely that they will forget the new password over the weekend. Another big group is auditors, who may come in every 6 months or so, and by then their passwords have of course already expired.

Recover lost SSL keyring password  

By Karl-Henry Martinsson | 7/24/14 11:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

About two years ago, our Network (as well as Domino) administrator left the company after 10 years. The other day our SSL certificate for one of our websites expired, and we wanted to use a newer wildcard certificate instead of a server specific certificate. The problem was that we did not have the password for the keyring file (keyfile.kyr) used on the server, either the admin did not document it (which does not sound like him) or the document with the password was lost/we could not find it.