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… is described in this article.

Several times I was asked if and how it would be possible to automatically create a place in Quickr (Domino).

This is possible via an HTTP request and I have described how to do this in this wiki entry.

A few weeks ago we struggled with a Quickr (Domino) installation at a customer. There were some strange effects (e.g. running “qptool upgrade -a” ran for 12h; the buttons in the Quickr web UI displayed in yellow and red instead of green etc.). It took us some time to find the root cause of the issue:

The customer had Windows Server 64-bit installed (and we did not know this and did not check it…).

The statement on the system requirements page is a little bit unclear.

So just to help others to run into the same trouble: Quickr (Domino) currently is only supported with Windows Server 32-bit.

If you are a local member ((not in the directory) of a Quickr (Domino) place you cannot add your place to the connector because you get the message that user or password is invalid.

To solve this issue you need to login with a full qualified user name instead only first name and last name. The full qualified name depends on the name of the place and the organization name of your Quickr server.

E.g. if your local user name is “Firstname Lastname” and the name of the place (the part which is used in the URL) is “test_place” and the servername is “Quickr/Demo” the full qualified name for a local user would be:

“Firstname Lastname/test_place/qp/demo”

If you are using this name with the connector you will be able to add the place to the Quickr connector.

Update:

It seems that this workaround is not working in every environment! Local users are currently not officially supported with connectors. So if this does not work for you please open a PMR and let them add a customer report to the existing SPR #JRIE7JSKCY.

I was aksed how you can switch between the Quickr Entry and Quickr Full after you have installed the server (you can choose which one to install during the setup routine!).

If the server is already installed you can control the behaviour via the NOTES.INI parameter “QRD_InstallType”. The following values are valid:

QRD_InstallType=1:  Quickr Entry version
QRD_InstallType=2:  Quickr Standard version with Entry
QRD_InstallType=3:  Quickr Standard version without Entry

With the last parameter you can suppress the links to Quickr Entry if you do not want to deploy it.

Please be aware: If you switch from Quickr Entry to Standard you have a legal requirement to make sure that you are paying for the appropriate licenses!

If you delete a place in Quickr (Domino) the place is only maked for deletion. The place is removed physically by submitting the console command “load qptool remove -cleanup”.

Unfortunately sometimes the place is not deleted completly (e.g. the directory and the “main.nsf” is still existing) because the databases are still in the Domino database cache.

To make sure the place could be deleted correctly you have to clear the database cache before running this command.

To automate this I am using the following batch file to physically remove places:

[codesyntax lang=”dos” title=”Batch”]

@echo off
REM *** Remove alle deleted places; clear DB cache before!

nserver -c "drop all"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "dbcache flush"
nserver -c "load qptool remove -cleanup"

[/codesyntax]

Most of the time you should not need as many of the “dbcache flush” commannds but I have seen sometimes that one or two commands are not sufficient. So I just do some more and it worked for me every time for now.

I am running this batch file via a Domino program document. You need to enter “CMD.EXE” as “Program name” and “/C c:\domino\removeplaces.bat” as the “Command line”. Make sure you enter the correct path and name of your batch file.