ACL inconsistencies giving you headaches? Here’s how to find and fix missing ACL entries on a Domino server using aclEZ (0)
Domino security is something of a mosaic, built upon, among other things, the many individual entries found in all the Notes database ACLs on a server. This system works great—it’s extremely flexible and it gives admins the control they need to make their servers impregnable fortresses. But there is one problem associated with this approach [...]
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Dynamically sortable view columns are trouble: Here’s how viewEZ can help you find and fix them (2)
We recently posted a tip to help you figure out which views in a Lotus Notes databases are the least often used, so you’ll know which ones to cut if the application’s size needs some trimming (the fewer the views, the fewer the space-consuming view indexes). But after you’ve finished throwing all the dead weight [...]
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Are your databases bloated with view indexes? Here’s a trick to help you cut file sizes (0)
This post recounts a database optimization trick and Lotus Notes secret that was shared by Eric Houvenghel at this year’s Lotusphere (Hat tip: it was first suggested to us by our friend Alexandre Denis):
When NSF files start looking a little flabby
Have you ever seen a Lotus Notes application grow mysteriously large in size? And have [...]
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Un-dead Lotus Notes Documents: How ‘ghosts’ can haunt your databases (6)
Have you ever seen a deleted document mysteriously re-appear in a Lotus Notes database? If you answered “yes” you probably weren’t hallucinating … and you’re not alone.
This eerie issue can occur when someone replicates a database after a long period of dormancy—like when somebody’s laptop gets plugged in after a long vacation. These [...]
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How *often* you click Ctrl+S can affect Lotus Notes application development (3)
Continuing in our series of Lotus Notes secrets, we’d like to share a strange little tidbit about design element replication (this is one of the secrets that Ytria’s Eric Houvenaghel shared at his Lotusphere 2010 BoF session):
A tale of two Lotus Notes developers
Once upon a time two developers were each working on their own local [...]
Lotus Notes Secrets
How hiding views from the Notes client can bring a Domino server to its knees (1)
In Domino Designer, enabling the option to hide views from the Notes client has one very unexpected impact:
It’s not just hiding the views from the Notes client, it’s also hiding them from the Updall task–which means the Updall task will no longer update the view index.
So the job of indexing the view will instead fall [...]
Lotus Notes Secrets
Building a Library of Lotus Notes Secrets (0)
All you Notes pros out there, does this story sound familiar? You get stuck on something so you ask yourself, ‘why isn’t this working?’; in the course of troubleshooting you discover a little something about Notes (something that’s conspicuously absent from the Help documentation); knowing this ’secret’ helps you fix the problem and helps you [...]
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