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As I was already asked several times:

If you drag and drop a file from the Quickr connector in Lotus Notes into a mail, just a link to this file is created. The same is true if you select “Copy” from the context menu in the connector.

This is a nice thing if the recipients of your mail have access to the Quickr place.

Copying the attachment itself into your mail is not so obvious. To do this, you select the attachment in the connector and then choose “Edit -> Copy as attachment” in the “Edit” menu of the Notes client.

Then you can just paste the attachment from the clipboard into your mail.

Caution: If you select a large document it could take some time until the attachment is available in the clipboard. You cannot paste the document to your mail before it was fully copied!

Our pictures of our South East Asia round trip with AIDAcara are now online. Ever after we sorted out most of the pictures there are still many of them remaining. So be prepared and have enough time if you want to see them

Link to the Flickr slideshow
Link to the Flickr album

Es ist noch nicht wirklich kritisch, aber so hoch stand das Wasser des Mains noch nicht, seit wir hier wohnen. Ich würde sagen, es reicht jetzt

Ich wollte mich noch einmal offiziell zurückmelden. Wir sind am Dienstag abend wieder gut zuhause angekommen. Die 2 Wochen auf der Aida vergingen wie im Flug (obwohl wir ja auf dem Schiff waren ).

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(Deutsch) … sofern es nicht so weiter schneit wie zur Zeit, werden wir heute abend Richtung Bangkok aufbrechen. Am Montag geht es dann auf’s Schiff.

Bild (c) AIDA

Drückt uns die Daumen, dass sich der Flug nicht so arg verspätet, dafür denken wir auch zwischendurch mal an Euch im kalten Deutschland

Wer wissen will wo wir gerade stecken und wie das Wetter dort ist, der kann sich unter diesem Link informieren.

Ansonsten bis in 2 Wochen!

As I already got several requests now I think I need to document it here:

Users in Germany do see wrong calendar weeks in Notes 8.5.1 this year. To correct this you need to change a setting in your Notes client.  Go to “File -> Preferences ->Calendar and To Do -> Regional Settings -> Week Numbers” and change the setting to “Always use ISO-Standard” instead of “Use my operating system regional setting”.

Afterwards the week numbers will be correctly displayed according to the German standard.

If you want to enable Sametime awareness within Lotus Connections 2.5 together with the Sametime embedded client in Notes 8.0.2 or later  you need to do the following (Documented in the InfoCenter but seems sometimes to be overlooked)

1. Exit the Notes client.
2. Open the plugin_customization.ini file in a text editor.By default, the plugin_customization.ini file is stored in the following directory:

   C:\notes\framework\rcp

3. Search for the com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.webapi/startWebContainer property. If it is set to false, set it equal to true. If you do not find it, add the property using the follow syntax:

   com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.webapi/startWebContainer=true

4. Save and close the plugin_customization.ini file.
5. Restart your Notes client.

This should work with all Notes versions later than 8.0.2 (IFR1).

I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas!

Image: Chris Sharp / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

The solution I described for the Sametime awareness issue did also solve another problem I had with the Lotus Connections Connector for Lotus Quickr.

When I created a new community and wanted to add a Quickr teamplace to this community, the Quickr place was not created correctly or not created at all. Instead a Java exception occured:

After I changed the “Token format” in the Domino Web SSO configuration document everything works fine now …

Update:

Almost everything worked There was still a small issue. If you wanted to save a document from Activities into Lotus Quickr (Domino) you got the list of place and could choose a place and a folder. But then the error “Could not contact remote server” appeared.

The solution was to add the line “AllowEncodedSlashes On” to the HTTPD.CONF file of the web server. After restarting the web server you were able to save the file to the Quickr place [Thanks to my collegue Colm O'Brien].

Just had the problem that there was no Sametime awareness in Quickr 8.2 (Domino). Although everything was configured correctly including a working SSO between the servers nothing happened. Even the Java console did not start. With firebug you saw that the STLINKS.JS was loaded correctly.

The solution:

In the Domino Web SSO configuration document the “Token format” was set to “LtpaToken and LtpaToken2 (compatible with all releases of Domino)”. after I changed that to the default of “LtpaToken (compatible with Domino 7 and prior releases)” and restartet the HTTP tasks everything were fine. Not sure if this has something to do with it: The token itself was an imported token of a Websphere 6.1 (Lotus Connections) server.