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If you do get the error “Could not find the main class. Program will exit” while running the java installer for Quickr (Domino) fixpack 8102 then you need to temporarily change the region settings of your server to “English”. After installation you can set it to your region again.

With the new fixpack 8102 for Quickr Domino the SPR KABS7H7FTG is closed. This should mean that with this version you can integrate Sametime into Quickr (Domino) also when using the native Domino authentication. This was only supportd with LDAP directories before.

Did not have the time to check it out yet. So if you have tested it successfully it would be great if you would give me some feedback…

Update: It is now officially confirmed.

Finally there is more detailed information available how to create customized themes for Quickr (Domino). Especially the article on Developerworks contains very useful and detailed information about how the themes are working.

Customizing themes in IBM Lotus Quickr services for IBM Lotus Domino 8.1

Redbooks Wiki: Customizing Lotus Quickr 8.1 (contains also information for Quickr J2EE)

Sometimes you may need to create a link to an internal page or document within a Quickr place. Although you can easily do this by using the smarticon of the rich text editor, these links contain the full qualified hostname, port and placename.

So these links will fail if one of these parameters will change. It will fail e.g. if you use a place as the master of a placetype. In all newly created places such links will still point to the original place and will no longer work.

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Although there I currently no easy way to create relative links within Quickr (Domino) there is a workaround, which might work at least for some of the use cases:

Assume you have a URL which links to a document which looks like this:

http://server.domain.com/LotusQuickr/placename/Main.nsf/h_Toc/
7CB1ED9DCD9FCEAB852567C3006E2DBE/?OpenDocument

To make this a relative link you can change this to the following URL:

../../h_Toc/7CB1ED9DCD9FCEAB852567C3006E2DBE/?OpenDocument

In case you have a link pointing to a sub-room like

http://server.domain.com/LotusQuickr/placename/PageLibraryC12574DB0041B263.nsf/
h_Toc/CE6A3D6B1F546C9405256708001671FF/?OpenDocument

you should change it to

../../../PageLibraryC12574DB0041B263.nsf/
h_Toc/CE6A3D6B1F546C9405256708001671FF/?OpenDocument

This will work as the name of the pagelibrary will not change if you create a new place.

So now as we know how to build the correct URL we can use this whenever we create a link to an internal page.

But there are still three things to keep in mind:

1. These relative links cannot be used with the smarticon in the rich text editor as they will automatically converted to full links. Instead you have to use the HTML view in the editor and manually insert the relative URL to the text.

2. Whenever you edit such a document the links automtically will be converted to full links again and need to be edited afterwards.

3. I did not find a solution yet to use link pages with relative links as they will automatically set “http://” before the relative URL which makes it unusable. So if anybody has a solution for that …

So to summarize: This is a workaround which might work for some use cases but not for all. There is an enhancement request created to address this in a future release.

Due to recent events I would like to remember that you should carefully check every new Quickr (Domino) hotfix before you install it.

Sometimes there are changes in the skin files of the Quickr standard skin. And if you took a Quickr standard skin as the basis of you custom skin you should make these changes also in your custom skin files.

Otherwise bugs already fixed will still be seen with your customized places.

As it may become very time consuming to compare the old and the new files you might want to use a tool to do that. One tool I can recommend for that is “Winmerge” which is not only able to show you the differences within the files but is also able to help you in easily changing the lines which differ.