This weekend I made some strange experience with a ‘foreign’ database design. The database consisted of a basic frame set with a navigation page on the left and the main view display to the right. The navigation had been driven by an outline that mainly linked to view design elements.

After adding a new private view to this database I dashed into some really buggy behaviour. When I closed the database while on of the private views had been focused, the next time I opened the database I ended up with an error message:

Insufficient frame/frameset handles

and a whole bunch of database links opened up on the top of my workspace.

A quick research on the web has not provided me with any clue until I started to inspect the whole design. To make it short:  the issue had mainly been caused by (missing) target frame settings. (more…)

Today I (again) ran into a question, which is crossing my way from time to time, and I was always asking myself where the hell I have seen this before:

What are the minimum requirements for a custom build database to work as an (additional) Address Book in Lotus Notes?

Or, to try it with other words:

Which design elements are required within a database to provide all the required interfaces required to work as a custom Address Book in Lotus Notes? (more…)

Today I took the chance to have a deeper look into the ‘new’ AutoSave function of Lotus Notes 7 for the first time. Since I am this kind of user who tends to hit CTRL+S every second line to save my last changes in the code or the document I am just working on I am not really in danger of loosing a lot of information when the Notes client goes down for whatever dubious reason ever. But I am aware that there are people out there writing long-drawn-out documents without even thinking of a file name (or subject/tile) at all. (more…)

I did finally get some time to set-up and try the new Sametime 7.5.1 version with the recently released Sametime 7.5.1 Software Development Kit (SDK).
Since there is no updated IBM Redbook of “Extending Sametime 7.5″ available yet I’d like to outline some of the changes when setting up the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with Eclipse 3.2.2. (more…)

First of all apologies in case my previous comment guided somebody into some dead end lane. I discovered today that I missed a tiny little but very important detail and I am kind of ashamed myself that I forgot the simple basics of reader and author fields.
The important bit of working with reader or author fields is that they are restricting the access to the document as soon as one of them had been added to a document. This is going to be especially important with reader fields. (more…)