How can I convert an .nsf lotus file to a text file? i want to write a java program to read .nsf file which is on my system. i have tried it simply but it is showing non english character is their any way to get access them normaly.
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That code is in .net and using any server's session, I just want to read .nsf file by java without creating any server's session in fact i have .nsf database. i just want to read as a text file.if there a way to parse .nsf with javacc,it would be better enough......
lotus notes database is full of proprietary design components. Assuming you just want to export the data, you will need to write an agent, (aka batch process), that would look at all documents in the database and then export all the fields into a plain text file.
If you're into XML, you can export data in that format as well, but again, you will need to write an agent for that.
Alternatively, there are some basic builtin mechanisms in Lotus Notes to export data but this is restricted to running them from views. Views do no necessarily get all the documents. You can design a view to do that though.
Providing the size of the database is not extremely large, (less than 200k documents), you can create view listing all the columns you want to export and a view formula that has "Select #All", will give you all documents. Then, the "quickest" way to get data out from a view can be found here using simple export procedure.
There is still the issues of exporting rich media, you can have a look here for that.
You can export some data easily by selecting all the documents in a view, and then going to Edit > Copy Selected As Table. Then just paste the content into Excel or a text file.
To access the data beyond what is showing in a view, you can try a few other things:
Connect to the data using the NotesSQL driver
Connect via the COM api (using Java, C#, VB, etc)
Create some views in Lotus Notes that DO have the data you need, and use my recommendation above.
Install and and my Export to Excel application
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We are using v9.0.1 and have one application that we must preserve for the time being. I am hoping to expose this database's documents with all content to a MySQL database for which we will develop a web front-end to present the records read-only. I know I can export the data to text files or to XML, but I want to retain the formatting of the rich text fields and the files that have been added to them (there are several per document). I've emailed the documents in an agent to a document management system, but the content of the rich text fields is stripped of any formatting and all the data I output is presented in a plain .txt file, but the attachments are preserved. I am hoping to provide a more elegant solution.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Ginni
The Domino router can do rich text to HTML conversion, so if set up properly you won't lose all your formatting -- but you still won't get great fidelity. I used that technique in an archiving product that I built 15 years ago, but it was only "good-enough" fidelity, and it was only for Notes email messages. There would be more to do if you're dealing with application documents. It's been too long, so I can't recall any specific details.
If you can spend money on this, the migration tool from Genii Software will help. Look up their AppsFidelity Migrate product. There may be some other third-party products that you could work with, but this one comes from a company that has been 100% dedicated to dealing with Notes rich text for decades. If you call them, tell Ben that I sent you.
For example I have to run a query to fetch data for a list of part numbers.
The list is very big say 1000. So I do not want to give all the part numbers in the query instead want to take it from a file say .txt or .xls
Is It possible with Notes SQL?
Why use Notes SQL to import data from a text file into Notes? Just write a Lotusscript agent that does the import.
Notes SQL is just a driver that maps SQL queries onto Notes and Domino databases, views, and documents. It's up to you to construct the queries and run them somehow.
There's nothing in the syntax of NotesSQL that can take input from files.
If the program that you are using to generate and run the Notes SQL queries has the ability to read files and use the contents of a file to modify the query before giving it to NotesSQL, then the answer is yes, it's possible to do what you want with Notes SQL.
You have it all backwards. NotesSQL lets you query (pull data out of) a Notes database (.nsf) using ODBC. That way any software that can connect via ODBC has access to Notes data. It doesn't allow importing data into Notes. To get the data into Notes you'll need to either write a script or use something like IBM Enterprise Integrator (IEI, formerly LEI, formerly formerly Notes Pump.)
Would it be possible to create and populate tables within ckeditor from uploaded files?
A user would choose a file from their machine in any format such as word, excel etc and it could display a formatted table in the editor....
It is pretty clear that one can create a table in CKEditor. Also, it is possible to add a table automatically. Now, if you want to automatically add a table based upon the content of an uploaded file, then:
create a form where the file can be uploaded
implement the feature with which one can upload the file
make sure you know where your files are, either using a database or a deterministic algorithm
implement a server-side functionality which prepares the content (table) data
use the prepared data as input at client-side
I have a system with an Excel spreadsheet template file which is used for invoicing. I would like the user to be able to click a button on an Xpage, which will then open the spreadsheet and enter the latest invoicing data in Excel. I don't mind if Excel is either the application on their machine or on the server, but my preference would be the application locally on their machine.
I've looked into Xagents, as I feel this is probably the answer. I know they can be used to create Excel but I have not been able to locate any mention of opening an Excel file, and entering data into specific cells.
Is this possible?
EDIT: you can use Apache POI for editing and creating Microsoft Office documents. This is a java project which gives you a handle to office documents and this can be used using java.
A good starting point can be the blog of Christian Guedemann from webgate:
http://guedebyte.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/documents-and-spreadsheets-with-xpages-building-the-kernel-part-ii/
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The only way I KNOW and tried to write data from Notes to Excel is exporting the data to an HTML page and setting the Content Type accordingly (e. g. as described here (there are a lot more resources available for taht):
http://www.dominoguru.com/pages/developer2010_xpagexlsexport.html
I am not sure if this is of help but it seems that this project can help you:
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=ZK%20Spreadsheet%20for%20XPages
As far as I can see this project can load Excel files from XPages - and then it should also be possible to edit the files.
Besides that the only solution I can think of is a Notes Agent that is called from the XPage. This agent can then run in background and do all the excel stuff. After running, the XPage can show a link to the Excel file. Actually this is the solution I would consider to implement - but maybe others step in with better answers here.
You don't want to introduce a dependency on Excel in your application -- wouldn't work with an iPad front-end. Rather have a look at the ZK Spreadsheet, it will fulfill your needs.
However if you have to have Excel, then you need a roundtrip solution: load the Excel from an URL (probably generated by an XAgent (?) and save it back. The saving back part is the tricky one. Normal HTTP doesn't allow that. What you need there is a webDAV capable server. Watch out for a project on OpenNTF soon (just clearing IBM legal) that provides webDAV.
However the ZK Spreadsheet looks much better for your needs.
I have a sample database at the following URL --> http://www.nnsu.com/nnsusite.nsf/%24%24OpenDominoDocument.xsp?documentId=B65507CB2DE15B3286257986005F061D&action=openDocument
Download the APCC.nsf. This will allow you to create/read a new EXCEL spreadsheet and then stream the resulting file to the requesting browser. There is not need to have EXCEL or office installed on the Server.
THe examples create a new workbook, but you can also store a "template" on the server or in a notes document and use it as a starting point and then save it to a document or stream it to the requesting browser.
With Apache POI you can read/write to a spreadsheet using data from the notes document the process is initiated from.
I'm about to export a lot of data from a Lotus Notes db, and I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on how exactly I can move forward on this point.
Notes has some views (lists with custom templates?) of some kind - are these saved in .nsf files on the Domino server, or are the .nsf files for email only?
If the .nsf files are actually the database files, what would be the best language / development pack to use to pull data from them?
If you need full-time synchronization between an existing Notes infrastructure and a RDBMS, LEI (Lotus Enterprise Integrator) or a third-party tool like Notrix would be your best bet -- it's as simple as defining a job and a schedule/trigger to run it. If you need to occasionally pull (or push) a subset of the data, then NotesSQL is probably the easiest approach. If you're not afraid of learning the structure of the NSF (Notes Storage Facility), then the LotusScript/COM API or the Java/CORBA API would give you finer-grained control.
If what you really need is a one-time dump of everything, then exporting all of the data notes to DXL (Domino XML) would give you the most complete version of the data you're going to get, and in a way that would let you recover and convert formatted Notes Rich Text, file attachments, and so on in a way that would be incredibly difficult to achieve otherwise. DXL is verbose, so don't say I didn't warn you, but it is pretty comprehensive as well. (The DOmino Designer Help entry on the NotesDXLExporter class has example code that is exactly on point.)
It all depends on what language you're familiar with.
If you know LotusScript well, then that would be my first choice since it's the most integrated with the platform.
If you don't know LotusScript that well, but you know C#/Java/C really well...then you shouldn't have any trouble using any of those APIs (and they should all be able to get the job done equally as well).
In Lotus Notes Domino all the data is stored in the .nsf files. This is true for all Notes databases, not just email. The data is all stored in documents which are basically collections of named fields containing values. The views are simply ways of indexing and displaying collections of documents based of specific criteria. The views can also calculate values based on the value of a field in the documents.
The Notes LotusScript and Java APIs are essentially identical and would be the simplest way to programmatically access the data. The C API is much lower level and probably overkill for this kind of thing.
You could look at NotesSQL, if you want to create an ODBC connection to an NSF file to pull data into SQL or Access. If all the data is contained within the view you could simply select all the documents and click Edit > Copy Selected As Table and paste into Excel.
To answer your other questions: Notes views are similar to SQL views - essentially a query on the data stored within the NSF. NSF files contain both the data and the structure of the application in one file.