I have Manager rights at the ACL of an application .When I open this application from designer it gives me below error
"you cannot view the design of this database because it is hidden "
I dont know what went wrong with this application . Can any one help
You need to have access to the template (usually an .ntf- file) of the database.
The design of the database was hidden when replacing the design using a template.
There is NO WAY to access the design of the database anymore.
There was a hack some years ago where you could open SOME of the design- elements by editing some bits in the nsf with a HEX- editor, but this does not help you at all as it does not make the relevant code visible.
Wihtout access to the template that was used to create the database there is no chance for you to do anything with the design of that database anymore.
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I recently made changes and created two forms in a database residing in a production server. When I sent out the link, the users are getting this error:
Unable to create document, database does not contain design.
I suspect that the database residing in their Workspace is not getting the latest design elements (not in-sync). I tried asking one user to remove the database from her Workspace, sent the link to the database to open it again, and click on another link which I provided to open up the two forms and she was able to access the forms.
May I ask if there's any other way I can do for them to not delete it from their Workspace and re open it again so it will get the latest design elements? Should I request the Notes Administrator to perform some codes in the console?
Form designs are cached by the Notes client, presumably to aid performance. As far as I know, it's not possible to disable the caching.
If users have a database open when you modify or add forms, it's usually necessary for them to close and reopen the database to see the design changes, but they shouldn't ever have to remove the database from the workspace and re-add it. I don't think there's any way to avoid having to reopen the database.
I have seen a problem affecting several users at one customer where Notes wouldn't update its design cache, no matter what they did inside the client. The only solution I found in that case was to close Notes, delete a file named "cache.ndk" from the root of the Notes data directory, then restart Notes. It's been 2 or more years since this last occurred, so it might have been fixed in some version of Notes.
Currently working at 9.0.1 FP6.
When I Make some changes and run Xpage application at lotus notes it gives me Error 500 : unexpected error condition. To resolve it I sign the application from IBM domino administrator and clean it from designer then I again execute the application it works fine until I make some other changes .
please some one guide me how to resolve this issue permanently.
Firstly, do you have the xpage error page checked?
In Designer >> Application Properties >>Errors and Timeouts >> [Check] Display XPage runtime error page.
Checking that option may give you some more information - Also, is anything extra written to the server log?
Are you making changes to the design of the application or to a document within the database?
If it is with designer, are you building the project? You should do this really after each change before using the application.
Where you say you sign the database from the admin client, are you doing so with an admin id which is different to the id you are normally using, as if it is a different id, it may be the id you are using does not have the correct rights?
Also, is the database is located in a folder within the Notes data directory? If so try putting the database in the Notes data directory and not in any
subdirectories.
Just a couple of quick things:
Your code MUST be signed with the same ID. Just re-check by looking at the design elements in Domino Designer!
What does the logs on the server tell you? You could use the Log File Reader project on OpenNTF to get easy access to these logs and stack traces.
/John
Open the Domino\data\domino\workspace\logs\error-log-0.xml file. It contains full stack trace of the error.
I am doing trend analysis of data from lotus notes. I need to manually export data from lotus notes and import it into excel. Is there a way to automate this? I can even work with Access. I tried to create an agent and I do not have access to do so.
There are many ways to do this, depending on your skills and your access to the Notes database.
First of all, when you say "I do not have access to [create an agent]", are you saying that you don't have designer access to the database where the data lives?
If that is the case, simply build a separate Notes application, and write your export agent there. Put that application on the same server, and you can set the export to run every night 8or whenever you like).
Another option is to use COM in Access and pull the data over that way. You have all the COM classes documnented in the Domino Designer help, and the code should be very similar to what you would writ in Lotusscript.
A third option, if the database is web enabled, is to use HTTP to pull the data out of views. You can read it using ?ReadViewEntries, either as XML or as JSON. This requires that all the data you need is exposed in the view, though.
I think the first option is the best, though. However, if you have been tasked with creating this export, you should be able to ask for proper access to the database...
I know this is a past posting, but someone may need the latest answers get to Domino Data.
You can export any view in Notes. File -> Export -> Select CSV as the option.
Then there is the IBM ODBC driver. There are two versions. One for 8.5.3 and another for 9.x. Download here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/toolkits.html
Instructions on how to install here http://xpagesbeast.com/uxdesign/dont-forget-about-the-notessql-driver/
Using DomSQL which is a true JDBC driver for Notes Domino data. Non Notes environments can execute SQL SELECT queries using this JDBC driver.
http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/blog.xsp?permaLink=NHEF-8Q7AW3
Using the Domino REST Services. You can access DominoData through a URL and it returns JSON. There are URLs to get all database instances on the server, then you can get all views in the server, and you can then access documents in the views.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Domino+Access+Services+9.0.1#action=openDocument&content=catcontent&ct=api
If you cannot create an agent (no designer access) you can try to install NotesSQL (ODBC driver) besides your Notes Client and access with Excel, MsQuery, etc. with your user id.
You can find more information here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomino/notessql/
I am trying to create an XPage version of the domino bookmarks.nsf used for creating the home page in the client. The users want to be able to see their most used databases with a link to go straight there.
Does anybody know how the domino favorites works and how to consume data from it?
The bookmark.nsf is beaten in mystery only by the desktop.dsk :-)
All entries in the Open button are stored as Outline design elements. Outlines are read/write in the LotusScript/Java/SSJS API, so you could grab them in a SSJS library. I don't know when/how the favorites are updated
We have a legacy Lotus Notes application that we want to see if we can make an improvement, first by making a test environment for this application. Currently the application is located on the main server and being replicated every 15 minutes to the web server. The replica on the web server has different forms and views since they are adjusted to display the information on the web browser (in my understanding)
I have made a new copy of the application that is on the main server without any problem. I had some problem replicating it to the web server since I do not understand what will happen to those element design that are not being used in the application on the web server. So what I did was replicating the application from the main server to the web server, then deleted all the design elements on the web test then copy all the design elements from the production environment to the web test.
By doing that I was able to get into the login page then log in. After I login, the frameset that suppose to display the default view giving this error message 'HTTP Web Server: Couldn't find design note'. First of all, I thought this is normal since I could not find the view in the database and that confused me since the live system works without that view present on the database BUT when I tried to access a view that I know present on the database, I still get the same error.
So after all that I opened the web test application on a Lotus Notes client. I can open the views that are exist. Now at this point there are 2 things that I am very frustrated about:
The live system works even when the code specifically mentions views that I cannot find from the Domino Designer. It just does not make any sense
As a test I created a 'Test' view on the web test application. Basically I just told it to fetch one of the form called 'WORec' that contains Work Order information. Into my surprise, the view opens up on the web browser but shows no result, which frustrates me even more since the view 'WOByName' gets all the Work Orders just fine. These 2 views have the same selection formula, so I really do not understand why 1 view is able to show data where the other does not. Moreover if I tell the test view to fetch all the documents in the database it only fetch those documents that are not 'WORec' form
I know this is long but if I can get some pointers on what I am doing wrong here. I am just trying to create a test environment. Unfortunately I never dealt with Domino web application or a replication that completely has different element design.
Let's start with the test view.
When you created the view, you need to first verify it is a Public view. Private views or Shared Private on First Use (SPOFU) views are not what you want here.
also, verify the name and alias of the view is unique to your database.
Next, verify your selection formula is correct.
use formula, instead of simple so you can actually see the formula. e.g.
SELECT #UpperCase(Form) = "WOREC"
Refresh your view designer (F9) - do you see your records coming through?
also, make sure the view is not hidden from Web clients... you will see this in the designer client, when looking at a list of views - a column indicating whether or not it is hidden from web clients, note clients, mobile clients, etc.
if not, open one of the documents up. Show properties, verify the form property in the box (2nd tab), matches the value "WORec". If not, correct your view selection with the correct form name spelling.
Next, you need to make sure you are allowed to view this from the web.
Open the Access Control List (ACL) and add "anonymous" as reader or above.
Open the view in Designer, and Preview it in web browser.
As for the "Couldn't find design note" message - that's not good. You definitely are missing design elements. Whether this is due to a selective replication formula issue, or acl issue, or whatever, is hard to tell. But if you have a Notes thick client and a separate web version, I would recommend different databases (or master templates) and not trying to use selective replication to handle that sort of thing.
As I understand it, you replicated the database then deleted all design elements and manually replaced them by copying from the production web replica. Instead, you should have made a template from the production web database (by doing a design-only copy), and then you should have used the 'Replace Design' feature to update the test web database from that template.
As an aside: an application built the way you describe (two replicas on separate servers, each with a different set of design elements) is a pretty bad implementation. It may have been done in the very early days of Domino, before the "Hide from Notes client" and "Hide from Web" properties were available at the design element level. Or it may have been done deliberately for "security purposes" (which I put in quotes because relying on Domino design element to enforce security on a Domino web application doesn't really make the application any more secure). You may be stuck with this... but you may not be. So before you try to improve or enhance this application, I think you should look into using the "Hide from... " properties on the design elements.
On the other hand, if you stick with the current design, I do want to mention that you're going to need to make sure the ACL settings and selective replication settings on your main and web test replicas match the ACL selective replications settings on the corresponding production replicas. Otherwise, you'll end up with a jumble of design elements when the test databases replicate across servers.
I suggest you to make a new copy of the Notes Database that is on your web server to your test server.
try to open in with your browser and check that all is OK.
open this copy in designer and check that it contains the views that you didn't see previously on test.
I'm not sure that you have really 2 different designs (one for webser different from the one of your main server) so:
- on the main server: open the File/Replication/Option for this application. In advanced, check When web server receives from .... if the design elements is checked.
if not it makes sense that there are TWO different design versions.
Maybe the view you didn't find (on the web server) restricts use? to check this:
- In the view (on the main server) check in the properties of the view the tab with a key "all readers and above". If it's uncheck THIS is the reason why they don't exist on the web server AND that you don't see them in the designer:
If your don't have the role or are not the person which can "who may use this view" you don't see the view and can't copy it.
To correct this simply enter the ACL (file/Application/Access Control) and grant you the corresponding role.
I hope I helped