Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
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 Continue reading SNTT: a pseudo Computed for Display Rich Text Field in the Lotus Notes Client
The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific Continue reading A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars
Toronto’s Connector extraordinaire Sacha Chua developed this super-nifty Lotus Notes script which does a flexible mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to Lotus Notes, as documented and shared in Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Keep Continue reading Sacha Chua shares her Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
I wanted to launch a excel (xls) file which was stored in a Profile document, from a Notes Client (tested in r8.5 but I see no reason this will not work in versions going back to r5) (Making it available Continue reading SNTT : using LotusScript to launch file attachements (EmbeddedObjects) in Lotus Notes
Hard coding is bad, bad , bad. Very bad, okay? (see Avoiding Hard Coding of Group Names). Here’s a quick and dirty way to have a drop down dialog which selects the “Year” and not be hard coded. 1234currentYear := Continue reading SNTT : Don’t hard code your Selectedable Years in a Lotus Notes dialog box.
The challenge was to have end users enter url’s (or uri’s) for content and have it presented as a link on the read only end part of the site. The problem is that means having “http” (or “https”) -which indicates Continue reading SNTT adding http onto URL strings in Lotus Notes