Adding pictures to the Lotus Quickr (Domino) Business Card

On 08.12.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

Opus Neo has built a Lotus Quickr for Domino extension called “Neo.PhotoManager” which allows you to add pictures to your Quickr business cards:

 Adding pictures to the Lotus Quickr (Domino) Business Card

You just need to store the pictures in a folder on your server and name it as the mail address of the user. You can download the extension free of charge for the Opus Neo web site.

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iPhone Shortcuts

On 15.11.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

If you do not want to jailbreak your iPhone you may be missing an easy way to access some of your iPhone settings. You may use the following tool (it is in fact an iPhone profile you need to install). It installs shortcuts for some important settings on your dashboard:

iPhone Shortcuts

You can also do that manually with a tool called QuickButton. With that you can also shortcuts which are currently not part of 2iPhone Shortcuts”:

SBSettings-Ersatz auch ohne Jailbreak

Sorry, all links are only available in German.

I like it icon wink iPhone Shortcuts

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Domino 8.5.3: PIRC

On 07.10.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

Domino 8.5.3 has a new functionality called PIRC (Purge Interval Replication Control):

Purge Interval Replication Control (PIRC) is a new replication setting which is designed to prevent old documents which may have been deleted from replicating back into a database after their deletion stubs have been purged.

As this is not yet included in the admin help, here is a technote describing this new feature:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21501675

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Quickr: “QPWS: Error. Could not open temp file …”

On 05.10.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

Customer reported the following Quickr 8.5.1 (Domino) problems:

  • Error message on the Domino console “QPWS: Error. Could not open temp file <..> to read.”
  • Users can upload documents via WebUI and Quickr connector but the documents appear to be empty and no attachment is inside.
  • Users get the message “Unknown Error: 500″ in te connector while trying to open existing documents.

The root cause for that issue seemed to be a large number of files in the Windows temp directory (“C:\WINDOWS\TEMP”). There were more than 64k files inside the temp directory. After deleting all files and restarting Domino everything worked fine again.

Although there is no limit of 64k files in one folder with NTFS as far as I know, there is a limitation of the “GetTempFileName” function which can only create a maximum of 65,535 unique file names. However this is only a guess by myself…

 

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Change Dropbox folder name

On 20.09.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

Dropbox does not allow you to set the name of the root folder for Dropbox on your Windows PC. It is always called “Dropbox”. If you want to change that name you need to change it manually by editing the configuration file.

As the configuration file is a SQLite database you will need to use a database editor like the SQLite Database Browser.Then perform the following steps:

  • Stop Dropbox first.
  • Then open the file “C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Dropbox\config.db” with your SQLite Database editor and change the key “dropbox_path” from “C:\Dropbox” to the path you like to have it.
  • Save your changes.
  • Rename your existing dropbox folder “C:\Dropbox” to the name you want to have.
  • Start Dropbox again.
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Just in case I do not remember it the next time:

The NOTES.INI variable

ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1

prevents loading of the files in the data\domino directory of the server. This speeds up the loading time of the “Files” tab in the Lotus Domino Administration client.

You need to set that variable in the NOTES.INI of the Domino server.

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Quickr Connector: Maximum allowed file name length

On 10.06.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

If you are working with files in the Quickr connector you might sometimes not be able to open a file in a Quickr place. This could be because the maximum allowed path length of the locally stored copy of the file has ben exceeded.quickr

The Quickr connector is using a cache area on the local file system to store temporary copies of the file being worked on. By default, this directory is found in Window XP at

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Libraries\quickr85\<placename>\

or with a German Windows XP

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<username>\Libraries\quickr85\<placename>\

Below of that directory Quick creates different subdirectories for Folder and Rooms. In the worst case (document is located in a room and in a sub folder in that room; it does not matter how deep the level of nested rooms and folders is) the path length will be:

47 Characters (German: 52)

+ Windows Username

+ Place Title (without special characters)

+ Place-ID (like: @P<placeURL>)

+ 33 character Room ID (like: @RPageLibraryC125788F002A2846.nsf)

+ 14 character Folder ID of a subfolder (like: @Fm0NLJXiPKlSR)

+ 34 character Document ID (like: @D32FB5E1F4D38DA9AC125788F002A5A78)

That means the path length is at least 130 (47+2+33+14+34) (German: 135) characters plus number of characters of user name and 2x the number of characters of the place URL.

Example:

Username:                  Administrator (13 characters)

Place Title:                  acmeteamplacetest (17 Zeichen)

For the cache directory 177 (130 + 13 + 17 + 17) (German: 182) characters are needed.

Windows has a maximum allowed path length of 260 characters (one character is an end marker so effective only 259 characters)..

For the file name of a file, which should be opened by the Quickr connector, only 259 – 177 = 82 (German: 77) characters remain.

If you want to work with files in MS Office the maximum allowed path length is shorter than Windows allows. It is for

MS Word:       242 characters (including one end marker; effective: 241))
MS Excel:       218 Zeichen (including one end marker; effective: 217))

In the example above the maximum allowed length of the file name would be in

MS Word:                  241 – 177 =    64 (German: 59) characters
MS Excel:                   217 – 177 =    40 (German: 35) characters

As you can see, the maximum length of a filename which can be opened by the Quickr connector is depending on several things factors and you cannot exactly say where the upper limit will be.

In general you should try to keep the file name as short as possible. Using a shorter place title will also increase the maximum allowed file name length.

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Quickr Webdav

On 09.06.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

I just learned about a product called “Quickr Webdav” by Lialis which looks very promising to me as I had some requests in the past which could be solved with that product.

I had no time by now to examine it in more detail but I wanted to make you aware of it in the meantime.

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Lotus Quickr Connectors HF 7 installation

On 08.06.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

In the package of the Lotus Quickr Connector HF7 you will find several files which were not existing in earlie versions. These files are not needed for the connectos but have been included unintentionally.

To update the connectors on the Quickr server you just neeed to copy the file QKRCONN.EXE to the path “<Domino data>\domino\html” and replace the existing one. You can delete the “buildinfo.txt” in the same directory as it is no longer needed.

To install the connectors only the QKRCONN.EXE is needed from te ZIP file. You can safely ignore the other files (except the readme file icon wink Lotus Quickr Connectors HF 7 installation

 

unintentionally unintentionally
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iPhone and iPad are now printing on my Windows printer

On 12.05.2011, in Blog, by Michael Urspringer

I do not have an Airprint-ready printer at home. But with the help of a little free tool I managed to configure  my Canon MG8150 as a device which will be recognized by both iPhone and iPad.

Just download the AirPrint activator for Windows and run it one time. You need to make sure to use “Run as administrator” as a service needs to be installed.

If you have activated the local Windows firewall you need to add a rule to allow incoming traffic for “c:\airprint\airprint.exe”. Although it was not described in the help I needed also to add a rule to allow incoming UDP traffic on port 5353.

Now you can just select “Print” in iOS and your shared Windows printer will available for selection. Just enter your Windows user / password one time and you are able to print from your iOS devices.

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