A customer was not able to access the online help for Sametime Meeting within the Notes embedded Sametime client. Neither the “Help Topics” link in the Meeting sideshelf nor the question mark button within a Meeting room did work. The
IBM Notes: Missing menu option “File – Application – Install”
If you are still missing the option “File -> Application -> Install” in the menu of the Notes client although you already followed the instructions in this article, then try to set the value “enable.update.ui=true” in the file [codesyntax lang=”text”] …\<notesdata>\Workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\com.ibm.notes.branding.prefs
IBM Notes 9: Missing Activities Sidebar?
In case you have just installed IBM Notes 9 Social Addition and missing the Activities sidebar now: The sidebar is no longer part of the Notes install kit but part of the Connections plugins for Notes. Please check this article
Restore Notes Folders: restore deleted folders with just a single mouse click
Lialis has published a new version of a tool called “Restore Folders” which allows either users or administrators to easily recreate folders in a user mailfile which have been deleted. Key features: Restore deleted folders in Lotus Notes mail files
Hide “Activities” sidebar during installation of Lotus Notes client
If you want to hide the IBM Connections “Activity” sidebar as you install a Lotus Notes client you need to add the following parameter to the PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI file of the client package: com.ibm.rcp.ui/HIDE_PANEL_com.ibm.workplace.ae.client.views.AESideShelfView=true I did not find that documented somewhere and
Using Sametime Web API features with SSL
If you want to use the Sametime Web API features of the Sametime Standalone or Sametime Embedded Client in Notes if you have enabled SSL for awareness / presence information you need first to do some steps on the client
Lotus Domino Admin Client: Disable loading of Data\domino files
Just in case I do not remember it the next time: The NOTES.INI variable ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1 prevents loading of the files in the data\domino directory of the server. This speeds up the loading time of the “Files” tab in the Lotus
Error installing FP2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1
As I tried to install Fixpack 2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 today the installation failed with the message “Error encountered while installing Notes Core Hotfix component.”. After some investigation I found that the JQS.EXE process (Java Quick Starter) seems to
Copy file instead of a link with Quickr connector in Notes
As I was already asked several times: If you drag and drop a file from the Quickr connector in Lotus Notes into a mail, just a link to this file is created. The same is true if you select “Copy”
Notes 8.5.1: Solution for wrong calendar weeks in Germany
As I already got several requests now I think I need to document it here: Users in Germany do see wrong calendar weeks in Notes 8.5.1 this year. To correct this you need to change a setting in your Notes