Lotus Quickr (Services for Domino) 8.0.0.2 released

The message comes a little bit late because of my holidays:

Some days ago version 8.0.0.2 of Lotus Quickr (Services for Domino) aka Lotus Quickr version 8.0 fix pack 1 has been released.

Please make sure that you also install the already available hotfix 1 for this new version which is available on FixCentral.

Important: There seems to be some confusion as there are still two different files on FixCentral. One is called “8.0.0.2-Quickr-Domino-HF1” and the other “8.0.0.2-Quickr-HF1-Domino”. You MUST use the file called “8.0.0.2-Quickr-Domino-HF1” which should (among others) contain a file HaikuCommonForms.ntf with a file size of 8192 kB and a file date from November 1st 2007.

The Lotus Quickr Version 8.0.0.2 is currenly for the English version of Quickr only. If you want to use the language packs for Quickr please do not install this fix pack as it is not compatible with the language packs.

Don’t forget to reinstall the Quickr Connectors with the new version delivered with 8.0.0.2 (however the release number of the new connector seems to be 8.0.0.1 …).

Wieder da …

Wir sind seit gestern nachmittag wieder aus unserem Urlaub zurück. Es war sehr erholsam am Scharmützelsee. Das Hotel Arosa ist zu empfehlen und das Wetter hat auch recht gut mitgespielt, so daß wir außer Faulenzen auch noch ein bisschen was unternehmen konnten: Kahnfahren im Spreewald (war aber schon recht kühl, dafür waren wir die einzigen Gäste :-)), einen Ausflug nach Potsdam mit Schloß Sanssouci und einen Ausflug nach Berlin (mit dem Zug in knapp 50 min. vom Nachbarort Fürstenwalde mit einem Tagesticket für 10 EUR incl. freier Fahrt in ganz Berlin … man vergleiche das mal mit den Preisen vom RMV …). Ansonsten haben wir ausgiebig den Saunabereich genutzt und uns gut erholt. Vermutlich wird die Erholung aber nicht lange anhalten, wenn wir morgen wieder arbeiten müssen 🙁

Ein paar Bilder folgen in Kürze…

Die Kürze hat länger gedauert. Aber hier sind sie.

Lotus Quickr: Chat link not working

After installing a Lotus Quickr 8.0 (Domino Services) server and connecting it to a Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 CF1 server the chat link on the right hand side of a place was not working.

Normally this link should display a small window where you can see all users who are currently online and you should be able to directly start a chat with these people.

Instead of this I only got a window with a small red “X” inside and a unspecific error message in the Java console.

There is already a hotfix for Lotus Sametime available for this problem which you can obtain via Lotus support. You should reference to SPR# JYYG6ZZD4V. If you got the fix you should overwrite the existing files “CommRes.jar” and “STComm.jar” in the “..Quickplace\Peopleonline” directory which you created before as part of the Quickr/Sametime integration.

After restarting your Sametime server the Chat link in Quickr should work as expected.

The SPR is already mentioned in this KB article as being fixed with Sametime 7.5.1CF1 but this seems not to be true in this particular case.

Domino LDAP and Certifiers

We had a problem with Domino LDAP at a customer site:

A group of pilot users of different domains should be made accessible via a test Domino LDAP server. So we copied the person documents from the Domino directories of the other domains into the Domino directory of the test LDAP server. Unfortunately all of these users were not visible in the LDAP directoy afterwards.

The solution was to copy all necessary certifier documents from the other Domino directories into the Domino directory of the LDAP server. As soon as the certifiers documents existed all users suddenly showed up via LDAP.

Lotus Quickr: Java Error ‘4488 Server access denied’

If you get a java error ‘4488 Server access denied’ when trying to use a context menu in “My Places” (e.g. to lock or delete a place) in Lotus Quickr (Domino Services) you should make sure that the Quickr user is allowed to access the Domino server.

In the server document in the Domino directory check the setting Security -> Access Server. This setting should either be empty or you should add the Quickr users into this field (or into a group which you can then add into this field).

The user would be able to access Lotus Quickr without being part of this group (as this is for Notes client users only) but the Java applets will have problems in this case.

Verschiedene Sprachen in b2evolution

Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich eine Änderung in b2evolution implementiert, damit die Bezeichnungen (z.B. “Leave a comment”) auf meiner Seite auch in der jeweiligen Standard-Sprache des Browsers angezeigt werden. Leider hatte ich das nur im b2evolution-Forum dokumentiert. Da der Themenmixer derzeit das gleiche Problem hat, hier noch mal die Beschreibung, wie ich es implementiert habe:

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I added the following lines at the beginning of the “_main.php” (before the line “skin_content_header(); // Sets charset!”):

 if( $current_User->locale == ”) 
{ 
$urs_language = substr(locale_from_httpaccept(),0,2); 
locale_temp_switch( locale_from_httpaccept() ); 
} 
else 
{ 
$urs_language = substr($current_User->locale,0,2); 
locale_temp_switch( $current_User->locale ); 
} 

This changes the locale to the primary language of the browser (if not logged in) or to the locale of the user which is currently logged in.

I also can display different static texts (e.g. in menues etc.) depending of the users’s language.

I do this e.g. with the following IF clause:

 <?php if ($urs_language == “de”) 
{ 
// do things for german language 
} 
else 
{ 
// do things for other languages 
} 
?> 

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Upgrading to Notes R8 mail design with language packs installed

I do not have much experience with using Domino language packs. As I have to work with them in a project next week I just did some tests. To have it handy in future I document here how upgrading to Notes 8 mail file design in a specific language works:

First, install the desired language packs on top of your Domino server

Then you have to submit the following commands on the Domino server console:

To upgrade e.g. all mail files in the mail directory to R8 in German language independent from the current mail file design you have to use the following commands:

 load convert -gGerman -u mail/ * mail8.ntf 
load compact mail/ 

The compact command releases the space the design elements in the original language had used.

In the same way you can change the language of a mail file later, e.g. to change one specific file to English you use the commands:

 load convert -gEnglish -u mail/demo.nsf * mail8.ntf 
load compact mail/demo.nsf 

Import OPML files into Notes 8 feed reader

Currently there is no official way to import OPML files into the Notes 8 RSS reader. But with a little trick you can do that anyhow.

In the Notes RSS reader there is a function called “Subscribe to Preset Feeds” which is used to subscribe to some predefined Notes related RSS feeds. This function reads the feeds to import from a file called “presetfeeds.opml” located in “..\notes\framework\rcp\deploy\extras”.

So if you export your feeds from your existing feed reader into an OPML file named “presetfeeds.opml” and save it to this folder you can then import your feeds by clicking the icon “Subscribe to Preset Feeds”.

If the icon mentioned above is not displayed you first need to activate it in the Notes preferences by enabling the option “File -> Preferences -> Feeds -> Show ‘Subscribe to Preset Feeds’ button on the toolbar”.

[Thanks to Brian D. Johnson]