Monthly Archives: September 2009

False Positives on Planet Lotus

By Ian | September 25, 2009

Once upon a time, 2006, there was “Show ‘n Tell Thursdays – A Project Of The Lotus Notes And Domino“, and the SNTT tag is still used, but Planet Lotus is where the action is now, an aggregation of Lotus related blogs and news.
Recently False Positives was accepted for inclusion as part of that community. [...]

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Five films from the TIFF

By Ian | September 22, 2009

We saw 5 great films in the Contemporary World Cinema program in this years (2009) Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
We started off with a Irish film, Perrier’s Bounty, set in the underside of North Dublin. Great and meaty characters. I hope the DVD has English subtitles and translation so I can understand [...]

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Validating URL and Email Addresses with regexp in Lotus Notes

By Ian | September 17, 2009

I needed to recreate this from scratch, and so I’m documenting this here for the next time.
Most of the credit should go to Julian Robichauxand his ls2j examples db, and in particultar the JakartaOroWrapper Library
My “invention” involves creating a isValidateURL and isValidateEmailAddress Regular Expression (or regexp ) routines that worked for me.
1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647Uselsx "*javacon"
Use [...]

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can’t use @ThisName in Hide-When formulas, LOTUS NOTES meta coding FAIL

By Ian | September 11, 2009

I had hoped to use the “@ThisName” to get the suffix of the field name “Comment_1″ and hide it if the Field “Status_1″ is “Pending” by doing this :
1234Suffix := @Right(@ThisName; "_");
EmpListFieldName := "Status_" + Suffix;
Status_value := @GetField(EmpListFieldName);
@If( Status_value = "Pending";@Return(@True);@Return(@False));
but it didn’t work
finally traced it down to the “@ThisName” formula and [...]

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Expanding Group Names for Lotus Domino using LotusScript

By Ian | September 8, 2009

I needed to find the people that belonged to a given lotus Notes group. It couldn’t be a simple lookup since other groups can and frequently are also members of a group, so it needed to be be recursive.
1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556Function expandGroupListMembers(GroupName) As Variant
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim gView As NotesView
Dim memberList As [...]

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SNTT: a pseudo Computed for Display Rich Text Field in the Lotus Notes Client

By Ian | September 3, 2009

As in last weeks posting, I wanted to have help verbiage centrally maintained (without developer innervation) but always displayed update in the end user document (the final end user). Easy enough to do with text or on the web, but doing this with rich text (pictures and text markup) on the Notes Client [...]

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