Dwight Wilbanks BLOG - Comments

Comment From Jeff Wilson

Jeff Wilson — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:59:26 AM -0500

If your router supports it, you can also leave the internal port alone, but do the forwarding and translation in your router.

Comment From Stephan H. Wissel

Stephan H. Wissel — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:44:23 AM -0500

Me reading too.
Nice tip! It goes well with the isNotDebug for forms that I published a while ago. It would be interesting to see, what runs faster
@Environment or @UserRoles (probably below measurement). The naming convention suggested is one of that little nuggets that are invaluable.
stw

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:18:11 AM -0500

@Martin,
No, what Im describing is a label for display only. On a hidden column, the only function of the label is for the developer, in the designer client.

The @dblookup function has some performance improvements if you read data from a column instead of reading from a field, that is not directly stored in a column. Also optimization can be done so that you perform one dblookup to get multiple data items, then use text manipulation to "@explode" them back out.

Comment From Martin

Martin — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:53:03 AM -0500

Still reading :) Just curious about tip 2, because you didn't finish it - will you use this name in @DbLookup?

Comment From LArry cooper

LArry cooper — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:05:39 PM -0500

Comment From Kevin Pettitt

Kevin Pettitt — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:11:58 PM -0500

Hey Dwight,

I've known the RPRWyatt guys for several years and although I have never managed to convince any of my clients to buy their products, it wasn't because they weren't good. I'm sure Ron, Jim, et. al. would be very interested in hearing how frustrated you've been with Dominofiles, and I suspect your hotmail address is probably just getting flagged as spam or something. Try sending it again and include me, then I'll do a reply to all and see if I can't make contact. I'll call if that doesn't work.

As for DominoFiles, I've never tried to shut off the flow so I didn't realize they were that dysfunctional on the customer responsiveness front. Definitely a huge No No, and something that RPRWyatt, the Intelliprint guys, and others should hammer them on. Otherwise I find it more useful to hear about these tools than not, and if managed well I wouldn't classify their messages as spam. Ironically, it might be because your unsubscribe requests are getting flagged as spam.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:16:12 PM -0500

I was unable to contact prpwyatt, but, I did try to.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:52:54 PM -0500

When you open the mail file (not just an individual message), it triggers the database script. Those scripts are stored separately in the database scripts design element.

I've updated the script to remove them too.

http://www.dwightwilbanks.org/dwightwilbanks/blog.nsf/DOWNLOADS/5C2E8BD900DDD82C862572250082D045/$FILE/HideScripts01.lss

The item in the database scripts design element is called "$DBScripts"

Comment From Jeff Becker

Jeff Becker — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:41:14 PM -0500

Thanks, it works when I create a new mail, but, it still uses the debugger when I open my mailfile from the workspace. Any idea whats happening?

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Wed, 6 Sep 2006 02:09:39 PM -0500

It looks like I can create a button for hiding and unhiding the design of the database. The way that the refresh trick works, it just sets a flag, that the designer knows to obey and disallow requests to look at the design.

Its been a long time since I've looked at any of this stuff, but, the button should be around 3 lines of code.

Comment From Chris Whisonant

Chris Whisonant — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:29:51 PM -0500

@2 - Way too much time on your hands!! Good information.

@3 - That's hilarious - I've not heard of that...

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:15:48 PM -0500

@Julian,

Wow! I've built & contributed to many, many helpdesk apps and I've never seen that before. Although unappreciative end users have made the same suggestion that Lotus does.

Comment From Julian Robichaux

Julian Robichaux — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:10:01 PM -0500

Yeah, but it's still funny. BTW, have you tried the one where you do a spellcheck on the word "helpdesk" in a Notes e-mail?

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:31:52 PM -0500

I got it first as an IM from my brother as "Bush hid the truth", This began the complete waste of time in researching this non-issue for me. It was kinda fun though.

In my research I found a warning dated 1993 that there might be issues with the "IsTextUnicode" function in the windows API, but, for the life of me I can't find the URL again.

http://weblogs.asp.net/cumpsd/archive/2004/02/27/81098.aspx appears to predate http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1 by over 2 years.

I plucked throught the windows API and put together a little script for testing purposes, based on

Declare Function IsTextUnicode Lib "advapi32" (lpBuffer , Byval Length As Integer, options As Integer) As Integer

http://www.dwightwilbanks.org/dwightwilbanks/blog.nsf/655A5CE12942C3988025712F007D0697/E1E1FB2E5E9915BD8625718F008258D0/$file/checkisunicode01.lss

In summary, its been broke since at least windows 3.51 (probably 3.5), its as the result of how the core windows function determine if a memory object without a BOM (byte order mask) is unicode. In short, the api function tries to determine what type text is in the file. Did it come from a mac? Did it come from China? And in some circumstances it figures it out wrong.

There were suggestions that the API should be fixed, but, if it was "fixed", then some dude in Japan is going to sit down with his notepad, open a file and start cussing about all the latin characters in shopping list.

Comment From Chris Whisonant

Chris Whisonant — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:26:28 PM -0500

Saw this at Digg the other day. Use the phrase:

this app can break

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1

Comment From Chris Whisonant

Chris Whisonant — Thu, 8 Jun 2006 02:40:27 PM -0500

When I was reading your post I was also thinking that a Google Office appliance would be a good fit. The only problem (as it is the problem with Open Office too) is that "everybody" uses the MS Office "standards". Even if Google provided an Office appliance with full support including DOC, XLS, PPT and Access, it would still face the same issues of companies not wanting to upgrade their legacy office systems. I'm not saying I agree with that or think it's right, but that's the way it is...

Comment From Ms. Jail

Ms. Jail — Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:13:42 PM -0500

Were you not blogging because you were near death?

"More than 300 Turkish prisoners and a number of prisoners' relatives have been on hunger strike for over one hundred days, in protest against being permanently locked in either one- or three-person cells in Turkey's new "F-style" high security prisons. As of May 29, nineteen prisoners and four hungerstriking relatives had died, and an estimated sixty prisoners are facing imminent death.

At the four F-type prisons that are currently in operation – at Edirne, Kandira, Sincan, and Tekirdag – prisoners may leave their cells only once a week if a member of their immediate family visits. Otherwise, they are held permanently either in single-person or three-person cells in what has been termed "small group isolation." These new cell-based facilities are a stark contrast to the large ward-based system that is typical in older Turkish prisons. "

Comment From Christian Brandlehner

Christian Brandlehner — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:56:33 AM -0500

Have you managed to get the FCKeditor upload connector working? I am still trying to figure out how to use that with Domino.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:55:34 AM -0500

I dont see anything within the libraries that I used that will use a password.

You might try Julians, its in Java but, it can be called from LotusScript using the LS2J

I would not be surprised if microsoft has an exposed hook into the compressed folders functions at the OS level. I know that these DLLs have been around for a long time, Im pretty sure they are prior to MS compressed folders.

Comment From Vaclav

Vaclav — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:49:34 AM -0500

Hello,
I would like to ask you if it is possible to unzip file using LS protected by password. It need to be done directly from Notes, not using external program because ziped files are in folder restricted only for SYSTEM.
Thank you
Vaclav

Comment From Julian Robichaux

Julian Robichaux — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:17:11 PM -0500

Great minds thinking alike...

Two things:

1. Keep in mind that the ZipFileManager agents in that database are actually LS2J, so you still can use LotusScript.

2. I've never used the built-in zip dll's, so it's interesting to see how you can make them work, regardless of which technique you decide to use. Once you make your decision, please tell us what made you choose one technique over the other -- that will be good information to have.

Sounds cool, in any case.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:44:22 PM -0500

You understand correctly.

Did you ensure that the $ServerAccess view has been rebuilt?

I just performed the test again (successfully) on a 6.5.4 client.

If its not working for you then I would be interested in identifying what is different.

Comment From Brian Mumey

Brian Mumey — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:30:09 PM -0500

Hey Dwight! I think misunderstanding this post. I have a local replica which uses 'enforce consistent acl'. It has a group with manager access. I add a group of that name to my local address book with me listed as a member. This will give me manager access to the replica? It didn't for me, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Comment From Christian Brandlehner

Christian Brandlehner — Mon, 2 Jan 2006 04:52:40 PM -0500

Have you seen that article? http://blogsphere-wiki.protekt.or.at/index.php/Configure_HTTP_reply_header

So adding a HTTP response header for /FCKeditor/* may have good results too.

Comment From Dwight Wilbanks

Dwight Wilbanks — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:46:03 PM -0500

@john
Not sure, Frederico Caldeira Knabben is the primary author and he lives in S�o Paulo, Brazil. It is possible that he knew about the potential for American amusement with the name. Im not sure

Heres the product link

http://www.fckeditor.net/default.html

Comment From John Tasler

John Tasler — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:22:16 PM -0500

I like how close FCK is to another choice word in my vocabulary. I have to imagine that was intentional.

Comment From francie "the shiznit" whitlock

francie "the shiznit" whitlock — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:04:18 PM -0500

Dwight?
Where the hell is Dwight?
Has anyone seen the geeky code-monkey sitting in a dark corner of the server room, typing frantically. Can someone please identify this sun-bathed Bono-esque dude with the "chick-checker" sun glasses for me? That devil may care smile on this guy's face spells "I'm Caribbean-bound" if you ask me!

Isn't it amazing what happens when you put sunshine on a geek? Kind'a like putting water on a beautiful pink daisy! aaawwww

Comment From dwight wilbanks

dwight wilbanks — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:59:15 AM -0500

When you are editing a page on the web, you can loose the whole thing if you let your session time out (by taking too long to edit)

If we had a configuration item for the session timout of the domino server, then when an authenticated user loads a page, it could set a timer to give a popup warning about the session potentially timing out. Then how bout a ajax call to insure that you are authenticated before continuing.

Then add an event to onsubmit of each form, to fail out until authentication can be confirmed.

Maybe this is something for facelift?

Comment From dwight wilbanks

dwight wilbanks — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:02:14 AM -0500

I built a custom login form (dxl) for blogsphere here:
http://www.dwightwilbanks.org/dwightwilbanks/blog.nsf/htdocs/DWIS6KDMKR.htm/$file/loginform.dxl

Basically to do it, I copy/pasted the $$ReturnGeneralError (or one of them) form back into blogsphere and renamed to $$LoginUserForm

Then I zapped the entire contents of

and pasted in the contents of the table from domcfg.nsf $$LoginUserForm, I used just the inner table and pasted in the hidden fields at the bottom.

I took the contents of the computed value from the IBM $$LoginUserForm and pasted that into the computed value insidet the blogsphere

Comment From Phil Randolph

Phil Randolph — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:59:49 PM -0500

Glad to have you in the blogsphere!

Just listened to the podcast that you and Lance participated in regarding AJAX. I'll be following this work very closely to see where I can use it in my implementations.