Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
I needed to display for “regular” users information that was maintained database wide (preferable via a profile form). Although the usual “@Command( [EditProfileDocument] ; formname; uniqueKey )” worked fine for the db admin people to edit/maintain the information, there was Continue reading Opening a Lotus Notes Profile Document in Read Only mode
A quick and dirty way for doing this. No error checking, big assumptions about the input to the prompt being right. 12345nd := @Prompt([OKCANCELEDIT]; "Enter the New Date"; "YYYY/MM/DD."; @Today); @If (nd ="";@Return("");""); y := @Left (nd;"/"); m := @Left(@Right Continue reading Q&D Action button to set Date Value with Lotus Notes Formula Language
Why should you use Role names to define functionality? Because : it’s easier to check if someone belongs to a role than a group, and I can’t control what a client (or the Notes Administrator) is going to call a Continue reading Using Lotus Notes ACL Roles rather than Groups Names in our ACL
This meme was started by Julian, who created the concept and initial graphic (and is tracking the response) : Need e-mail? Yeah, it can do that. Client and web applications? Yeah, that too. Portal? Yeah. Blog, wiki, RSS reader? Yes, Continue reading Lotus Notes: Yeah, it can do that too…
Lotus Notes Domino (Notes being the rich client, Domino the server) has many features which allow a developer to quickly build high quality database applications. One of these is the ACL ,or Access Control List, which allows you to set Continue reading Programmable Fine Grain Control for Lotus Notes Document Deletion
Kevin Pettitt aka Lotus Guru has written up a SnTT note on “Standardized and Simple-to-Use Keyword Formulas” where the structured dblookup is computed for you to use in your code. A nice application of the structured dblookup. Given that all Continue reading Computed and Structured Dblookup in Keyword Formulas to reduce simple mistakes.