Lotus Notes 8.x Questions


Error Opening email
I have a users that is getting an error when they attempt to open an email. Ther error is “the database cannot be read due to an invalid on disk strcture”.

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2012  2:19 PM
Lotus Notes 8.x
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25 pts.

View creation in Lotus notes
The view shows all the documents, by I want to filter it based on the username [strong]and[/strong] 2 other field values, Could you please help -  either dynamic views or Author/Reader fields

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2012  2:48 PM
Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes View
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10 pts.

In lotus notus using combo box
How do you set the default value for the combo box to be a blank so the user is force to make a choice from the dropdown list. I can’t make the first choice in the list be blank except for using ” ” quotes marks. I want to check the value to not be [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2012  6:13 PM
Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes Combo box
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385 pts.

Lotus Notes missing emails after archiving
My archive in Lotus Notes was itself mistakenly archived into a second archive file (a_a_<name>.nsf). In an attempt to move the files back into the original archive file (a_[name][/name].nsf), I seem to have lost the archive emails in both locations. However, both .nsf files look large enough that I think the emails may still be [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  8:28 PM
.NSF files, Lotus archiving, Lotus Notes 8.x
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15 pts.

Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Hotspot action question
Hi, I have seen this done but have no idea how to accomplish it, so any help is greatly appreciated ! I would like to send an e mail to a large group of people, and within the email have a sentence like “I have especially enjoyed working with xxxx” where xxxx will appear to [...]

Answer Question   |  February 29, 2012  1:00 PM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes 8.x
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5 pts.

Dialog List
Recently upgraded to Lotus Notes 8.5.3. User selects a keyword from the dialog list. The value that shows in the field is one up on the list from what they selected.

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  5:07 PM
Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes 8.5.3, Lotus Notes 8.x
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5 pts.

Lotus Notes mail issue
One of my colleague’s lotus mail is behaving strange…when ever the user sents a mail its not sending that mail instead it is sending old mail and its the same case while receiving mails…when evr any user sends a mail she is receiving old mail from that person but not the new one.. this problem [...]

Answer Question   |  November 15, 2011  8:24 AM
Lotus Mail, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes Upgrades
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305 pts.

Lotus Notes ‘File Truncated – file may have been damaged-
I currently have a 5.4 GB Lotus Notes 8.5 NSF file I’m unable to open. I have the message “File truncated – file may have been damaged“. I tried unsuccessfully various software (demo versions): Recovery for Lotus Notes 2.6, Lotus Notes Recovery (suitable for LN 6.0 / 6.5 only) and Recovery for Lotus Notes. Would [...]

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2013  12:32 PM
Lotus Notes 8.x
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5 pts.

Lotus Notes not going to trash once deleted
I have a customer that is unable to recover documents she has deleted. They are not going to trash, they are disappearing completely.

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2011  5:09 PM
Lotus Notes 8.x
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10 pts.

Customize Lotus Notes Inbox View
We have a generic mailbox used by multiple users to send mail. Even though the email header displays the name of the user who sent the email, in the Sent By field, I am not able to find a way to display the Sent By value in Inbox View. Is there any way to accomplish [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  4:31 AM
Lotus Notes 8, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes administration
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5 pts.

Variant does not contain a container
While click tools–preferance i am getting Variant does not contain a container anybody have a solution for it.

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  11:02 AM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes administration
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740 pts.

Skip All function is grayed out in Spell Checker of a Lotus Notes client
Hello, In Spell Checker, ‘Skip All’ function is grayed in Lotus Notes client 8.5. But the function is available in the same mailfile by using a Notes client 7 with the same settings as 8.5 client has. I think the problem is in Notes client but what? Does somebody have any idea what the problem [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  6:38 AM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes 8.x
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25 pts.

How to allow end users to arragne documents in the embedded web views
I have an embedded web view that display documents by defualt. I want to provide the end users to re-arrange documents by drag and drop or by document selection using javascript. Anyone done that? Thanks  

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  6:29 PM
Domino Designer, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 7.x, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes View
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ALK
125 pts.

Lotus notes 8.5.2, FP2 installed on XenApp 5.0 with data directory on network drive
We have 140 employees using Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Fix Pack 2, which is installed on XenApp 5.0 farm using a network drive for the data directory. We have between 1 and 3 people that lose their data directory (network drive) unexpectedly and we have yet to determine why? Has anyone else experienced this problem and [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  12:20 AM
Citrix XenServer, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Lotus Notes 8.x
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5 pts.

Migrating Lotus Notes Local Contacts
Currently, we face problem after we migrate user from old dept to new dept, the old email address still remain at local PCs It is possible to change local contacts to follow what has been change in server after migration? eg.  Old email address abc/acc (still appear in local PC due to cache) New email [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  5:49 AM
Lotus Notes 8.x
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105 pts.

Lotus Notes error
One of my users gets this message “Illegal circular USE: DocExpProcessing” when opening an older email after clicking on the “Ok” button this message appears “Generic LSE Failure (no mo info!)” this started occuring after an update from Notes 6.5 to Notes 8.5.2

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  1:36 PM
Lotus Notes 6.5, Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes error messages
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5 pts.

Problem using popupmenu in Lotus Notes
Hi. Yesterday I found this page, describing, how to use use popupmenu in lotus. http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tip/Popup-Menus-made-easy-in-your-applications I see, it’s 11 years old , but could u plz help me? This method doesn’t work for me. When I call TrackPopupMenuEx, nothing happens. I tried to debug it: hMenu, hWnd etc. are ok and contain Long. But no [...]

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2011  6:38 AM
Lotus Domino development, Lotus Notes 8.x, PopupMenu
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5 pts.

Lotus Notes password expiration
Does lotus notes have a password aging or expiration setting for new client login?  If so, where is the setup?

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  3:21 PM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes administration
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5 pts.

Lotus Notes 8.5 – Unread mail in multiple folders view
Hi all, I use Lotus Notes 8.5 at the office and have a lot of unread messages in various folders and subfolders next to the mail in my inbox. In Outlook, there is this very handy view that displays all unread messages sorted per folder. As soon as a message has been read, it is [...]

Answer Question   |  March 18, 2011  11:46 AM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes 8.x, Outlook
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15 pts.

Unable to create/delete rules in Lotus Notes Client 8.5
getting Error: “Field is too large (32K) or Views column & selection formulas are too large ” while trying to creat modified any rules in lotus notes client 8.5

Answer Question   |  March 24, 2011  7:19 PM
Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes 8.x, Lotus Notes Rules
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120 pts.