Teamplace for Quickr (Domino) with combined blogs and wikis

Lotus business partner Peters Technology Group in the US together with Lotus Development has created a template for Quickr (Domino) which combines the team place functionality with the functionality of blogs and wikis.

Unlike the QSite template of SNAPPS (which was mainly created for demonstration purposes of what is possible) this template has only the minimum of code and agents inside and can be used also in production environments.

You can download the template after registration.

Currently this template is not supported by IBM but there are ongoing discussions to change this in near future.

Update: Peters Technology group just updated the templates for use with Quickr 8.1 and have also provided now own templates with only teamplace & wiki and teamplace & blog in addition to all three ones.

Quickr 8.1 English available

I assume you already have read it on various other sources but just for completeness:

Quickr 8.1 English is available for download since today (or better since last night).

The planned eGA dates for the other languages will be:

* April 28 2008: West Europe
* May 12 2008: Nordic
* June 9 2008: Multilingual
* April 28 2008: Asia Pacific

Update:

Make sure you also download the following fixes from FixCentral:

* Required post-install fixes for Lotus Quickr 8.1 services for Lotus Domino (#1299067)
* Required post-install fixes for Lotus Quickr 8.1 services for WebSphere Portal (#1299060)

Quickr (Domino) “remembers” old place names

After I did a clean re-install of Quickr on my demo Domino server I noticed that Quickr seems to remember some old place names although I was really sure that I cleaned up all references (PLACECATALOG.NSF, mail-in database entries etc.). It was very strange that on the Domino console you could still read messages like

[codesyntax lang=”text” title=”Log”]

27.03.2008 07:13:15 HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - File does not exist [/LotusQuickr/stanadardblog/Main.nsf/stories.rss?OpenPage]
27.03.2008 07:13:15 Place does not exist or is marked for deletion. [/LotusQuickr/openplace/Main.nsf/h_Toc/CE6A3D6B1F546C9405256708001671FF/?OpenDocument&Form=h_Atom]

[/codesyntax]

If you look at the URL you can see that all URLs relate to ATOM feeds. I then checked my Firefox browser bookmarks and found some old live bookmarks which pointed to these no longer existing feed URLs.

After deleting them the strange messages were gone 🙂

Notes 8: External feeds are not working in feed reader behind a proxy

At a customer location we did have the problem that external feeds were not working in the Notes 8 feed reader application. Internal feeds had no problem. Customer was using a proxy server to connect to the Internet.

In the location document the proxy settings including the correct exception list was defined correctly but we could not connect to the feeds on the Internet.

We found out that the file “com.ibm.rcp.net.http.prefs” in the directory
“…workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\
(under Notes data) did not contain the correct exception list in the line “http.nonProxyHosts=”. This line still had an entry in the form “10.*” and trailing “*” characters are not allowed as exception list entries within Notes.

As soons as we corrected this entry the feeds were working without a problem.

We then did some more testing and found out, that changing the proxy exception list in the location document will not change the corresponding line in the file above. It will only be written correctly into this file if the line “http.nonProxyHosts=” is not present in the file. In this case the settings are written correctly. All other settings are updated correctly.

So until this bug is fixed as a workaround you can change the line “http.nonProxyHosts=” in the file “com.ibm.rcp.net.http.prefs” to the correct settings.

BTW: Im quite sure that this file will be used in Notes 8.0.1 for widgets also. So if you have problems here have also a look into this file.

How to change the design of the Lotus Quickr (Domino) landing page?

The landing page of Lotus Quickr (the one you see if no user is logged in resp. where MyPlaces are displayed) is stored in lotusQuickr/Main.nsf. This is just a stripped down version of a regular place with it’s own style. What you need to do is add in some elements to allow you to create a customized version of the landing page. Here are the instructions:

Read more …

[Thanks to my colleague Gary Ernst]