Quickr Domino 8.5.1 FP 12 is available

Darren Duke  January 29 2012 02:22:18 PM

Available on IBM Fix Central. Contains the following fixes:

FP 8.5.1.12
12/22/2011	LHFX8NLKSA PPOR8PAPF7 LO65452 LO65920	Date Popup and Last Modified Date format is not correct for en-gb, should be DD/MM/YYYY.
12/22/2011	ESEO8PGKMP LO66016	With a customer specific place, not able to move an item to the very bottom of the table of contents.
12/22/2011	TJOR8PGTGR LO66048	When using a Quickr 8.2 themed place on Quickr 8.5.1, an image uploaded into the rich text editor shows as an attachment to the page and that attachment's modified time is wrong.
12/22/2011	HHIE8PL8FS LO66130	Quickr Domino server crash due to an incorrectly formatted URL.
12/20/2011	LHFX8NLJ6E LO65445	Unable to move documents from a parent folder to a child folder if there are 10 or more documents in the parent folder.
12/20/2011	CRAY88AM5P LO65545	Images uploaded to server when creating a blog comment do not show in the comment. *please note, limitations in blog comments prevent uploading an image to the server for blog comments.  This fix removes the Upload to Server tab from the Insert Image button in the rich text editor.
12/13/2011	DWHN8NFGVK LO65314	When accessing a document through Connectors where that document is based on a custom form containing a “Single Attachment” field, but the document itself does not contain an attachment, you will receive the error message “Unknown Error 500”.
12/13/2011	CSTS8M5MMD LO64311	When selecting More Actions - Print from a document where the Rich Text field would span to the next page, the text on the following page does not print.
12/13/2011	No SPR	When creating a Quickr Wiki place via Connections, the Domino server name is displayed in Connections as the owner. *please note, for this fix to take effect, you must run qptool upgrade -f on the places having this issue.
12/08/2011	CSTS8NAT6N LO65286	The Edit button is missing from a Workflow Approval Cycle For Approver after first logging in through Portal to Quickr using DN remapping.
12/08/2011	LHFX8NVHGY LO65643	When a place has the option “Show Editors and Authors a link to the Members page” disabled and an Editor or Author sends a notification, but deselects the “notify everyone” box, the member list is presented.
12/08/2011	CLOH8PBCJ3 LO65882	When upgrading a place to 8.5.x, a document based off a custom form that contains an attachments field has the Connectors default action of opening the document in the browser. (see fix CLOH8PBCJ3 in the “Merging Notification Template Updates” section)
12/05/2011	PPOR8K7LBE LO62665	If a user modifies a List and that user is different than who created the List, the Last Modified information isn’t updated with the current modifier’s name.
12/05/2011	HMON8HVHW4 LO61646	When in a notifying users within a Room, the text should say “Notify All Members of this Room” instead of “Notify All Members of this Place”
12/05/2011	CAML8MKVYL LO64655	When uploading an image to a custom form containing a non-editable Rich Text Field, the Quickr Domino Server will crash.
12/05/2011	MMOI8NXMP6 LO65715	Quickr Domino Server crash when creating a new list when the Quickr Domino server is on AIX.
12/05/2011	TDON84VL8C LO51011	Quickr Domino server crash when running ‘qptool report -policyexecute’ using a customer specific place.

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The (somewhat clothed) LS12 review

Darren Duke  January 23 2012 10:37:35 AM

I'll start backwards.....

With the explosion of Social Media and knowing "where to be", Kimono's was really only fun the last night and the first night. In between it was just too packed. Time to find another hang out for mid week me thinks. And with everyone and their dog having a 5MP camera on their phone, it is no longer "what happens as LS, stays at LS". Party accordingly.

The Blogger Open : my team won. So someone has really bad math skills! A valiant effort my Mike McGarel on "the scoring app". I feel for any family that comes to Fantasia Golf that day.

The CGS was a complete and utter train wreak. Whoever thought *not* to put a warning on screen and verbally before Zimmern did his stuff needs firing. Atrocious. And I'd have to say that most of the audience (especially non-US based folks) had no idea who he was. Then came out the blow torch......it was down hill the moment he hit the stage. When the pretzel cookie is the best part of the CGS you have missed your mark by many, many miles. Bring back the likes of the conductor. Now he was impressive.

Wifi : I think the same coffee nazis who kept stealing the coffee ran the wifi. IBM can measure how many purchases are made on mobile devices over Christmas, but not guesstimate that each attendee will have 3-4 wifi devices? A complete WTF all conference long. Social my arse. I wonder how many bloggers, tweeters and analysts gave up posting content about LS12 because of the LS12 wifi?

Blogger of the Year : rightly won by Stuart McIntyre.

Parties : invited to a few. Attended more that I wasn't invited to. The Ephox invite to Australia Day was there, but only if you gave them a closing Portal deal. And I thought I was egotistical! Needless to say I didn't go. But they can have all my portal deals for Q1 and Q2 if they like......or as it's more correctly called: none.

Sessions. I didn't attend that many. Most lost me at the length of the session title and if you were not there for Cloud, XPages or Connections you were shit out of luck. And having the keynotes early didn't help either ;) I pity any Domino Admin that turned up this year, and I think that, and the crappy scheduling will affect the numbers next year. There was no balance if you were there for XPages as you either had days of nothing or 5-6 sessions all at the same time you wanted to attend (ironic that I'm complaining about lack of content and at the same time, cluttered content. If you were there I think you get my meaning). This ain't IBM's first rodeo here so I'm not sure how they don't get this right. There were also a lot of IBMers presenting. I'm guessing IBM want *their* people out front as SME's when businesses realize social and cloud are just prefix words for "services". And where was Lotusphere Idol? I owe a hat tip to Scott Souder for his jibe at the Ask the PM's session. A classy comeback from a classy dude.

Rebranding/Renaming : As IBM bolts headlong away from the Lotus name IBM Docs got on the of the biggest cheers in Ask the PM's as the PM pointed out she had the shortest names product. I guess Lotus Knows not to name any product "Lotus". And Notes, Domino and Quickr are not being rebranded. Party accordingly.

Coffee : tumble weeds, like the coffee

Quickr : Again tumble weeds. In the customer evangelist panel (yes, the panels were actually good!!!) 4 of the 6 "customers" on stage mentioned that they used Quickr. IBM is missing a big opportunity here and will continue to miss it until it sees the need for something that IS NOT FileNet nor Sharepoint. And Connections Files ain't it. In my opinion Connections Files is about as useful as Quickr Entry was. And Quickr Entry was crap. These are your customer evangelists (your = IBM). Do you listen to them?

Capacity : I don't know the official number, but my gut was 4,500-ish. Vendors on the showcase floor did say that foot traffic was much the same as last year. My observation is that there were way more IBMers than before. The Blogger Open was packed, so registrations for that were up 40-50% :)

OGS : yes, I was watching it from my hotel room on the Dolphin, sans clothes. OGS product mentions usually go from flagship down to toilet paper in that order. Let's just say Domino and Notes was 1:40 in before it was even mentioned. Of a 2:00 show. But it was better than last year. And no animals were harmed in the making of the OGS (that should really be implied don't you think?).

Social : Before LS12 it was an overdone word if ever there was one. It's the new decades "e-commerce". Irksome and buzzy in all the wrong way. Like cloud.

Overall : I had fun. I always do when 100's of my favorite people are in the same place, but somehow (and I can't quite put my finger on it) LS12 seemed like it was done on the cheap this year. Maybe the recession is starting to bite even the titan-esque IBM or maybe I am wrong. Either way I had fun and look forward to a more balanced and less cluttered schedule next year.

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Vote for your 2011 Blogger of the Year TODAY until 5pm

Darren Duke  January 18 2012 10:19:59 AM

That's right you have until 5pm EST today to vote. There are lots of good candidates (I'm not one of them, although surely I'd win Tweeter of the year right now)....

Go over to http://planetlotus.org/my/awards/ to vote. You'll need a free "MyPL" login to access the page, so if you don't have once go get one!

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Why you really need Windows 7 x64 and 8GB RAM on PC’s

Darren Duke  January 3 2012 08:43:00 AM

So here is a comparison of Windows 7 with 3GB vs 8GB RAM. The machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500.

First up 3GB running Windows 7, 32 bit:



This machine runs the usual. Notes 8.5.3 + Admin + DDE, Quickr, Skype, TweetDeck Office, vSphere Client, etc. It never drops below 70% used with my normal day to day operation.

This same machine with 8GB and Windows 7, 64 bit (you need 64 bit to see more than 4GB RAM)....the penalty? You need to reinstall everything....but with Windows you're rebuilding your machine every 18 months or so anyway right? ;)

So with 8GB RAM it very, very rarely gets over 45% under "normal" loads, and I've yet to see it over 60% at all:


With RAM being cheap it's a simple upgrade. For the ThinkPad I got Kingston ValueRAM 8GB PC3 SODIMM kit from Amazon for $36.99 (a kit of 2 x 4GB), obviously check what RAM your computer needs, and how much it can take first.

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Ask the Product Managers LS12 addition - what I’d like to see answered

Darren Duke  January 3 2012 08:04:00 AM

One of the most successful sessions of LS11 maybe back (it should be, although I'll admit I haven't checked the schedule), and if it is here are some of the things I'd like to see addressed (in no specific order):

• Now that I have a Macbook Air.....Quickr Connectors for Mac. Come on, this was on last years too.
• Lotus Protector for Mail Security - Your gonna make that applet (a) not an applet, and (b) faster right?
• Lotus Protector for Mail Security - ICAP for Domino servers
• Lotus Protector for Mail Security - SSO with Notes, like Sametime has.
• Lotus Mobile Connect - any reason the fixes on Fix Central are "protected" via entitlement checks?
• Wiki's/InfoCenters - the screen shots and versions in the docs are not always up to date (or even correct)
• Traveler - Spell check on Android
• Traveler - ActiveSync on Android (several reasons, not least the set up headaches, and the issue above)

To any PM of any product I am always full of ideas (and other stuff occasionally), but really, we don't just sit around making this stuff up. This is what my (and your) customers are asking me week in week out (OK, so the Quickr Connector one is me - I get this about once a month right now), but I'm always available to bounce ideas off when you are looking at the list of things you'd like to accomplish. I also like Rob Novak's idea (comment 25 on the above like) about round tables......

For comparison go take a peek at the LS11 addition of this post.

And I hope my posting these questions ahead of time, then possibly asking them doesn't constitute "peacocking" as that is neither the intent nor the goal of this post. Any PM is free to comment here prior to the session and I would think that would be satisfactory as well.

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Quickr Connectors 8.5 HF10 available - support for Notes 8.5.3 added

Darren Duke  December 17 2011 06:47:53 AM

It actually took me a while to find the fix list in the readme document because it was so short! Available from Fix Central (direct download link) and containing the following fixes:

1        Fixed issue in Quickr Domino with creating and navigating very deep directory structures in Windows Explorer
2        Added Support for Notes 8.5.3

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Thank you and goodbye to 2011 - the not so Yellow (anymore) Bubble review

Darren Duke  December 16 2011 06:15:02 AM

Snarky continuation of the annual tradition of tracing the previous years happenings......this time is, shock horror, 2011!  With 2012 bearing down on us here's what took place in the last year (allegedly):

I turned 40. So much of this stuff may be wrong as my memory starts to go the way of my eyesight. Although I've managed without Viagra so far.....

The blog (or more correctly this blog) had far fewer posts than any other year. I guess my Yellow Tiger Blood is waning,

IBM looked like they were going to dump the Lotus brand. Then looked like they weren't. Then looked like they'd compromised.

With the rebranding effort some of people said "Yes, please rebrand". Others said "NO, don't rebrand", Most said "Lotus? That's still around?....I used to like 1-2-3.....what ever happened to that?"

The "Mastering XPages Book" was released. I think it shocked a whole lot of people by actually selling.

Firefox 3.x was current in-market release on 1/1/2011.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 4 was released.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 5 was released.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 6 was released.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 7 was released.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 8 was released.

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox 9 was/will be released (depends on the post date of this smirkathon. ETA 12/20/2011)

Speaking of Firefox, Firefox lost market share. I wonder why?

Speaking of browsers. Internet Explorer lost market share. Because it is a shitty browser.

Chrome almost doubled market share. It's fast. I hate to say this, but this is now my browser of choice.

Speaking of Google, their unofficial motto continues to be "Do Know Evil".

If you'd have sold your RIMM shares at the beginning of the year, you'd have gotten close to $65/share. Now? Not so much. $15-ish. That's quite a hair cut.

Speaking of RIM. The guys flying this company into the ground are still there!

Speaking of RIM. They released a tablet. Without email. Apparently someone at RIM thinks they can do something other than email. It appears they were wrong. The guys flying this company into the ground are still there!

Speaking of RIM. They had a 3 day world wide outage. Every IT person on the planet said "Meh, I have an iPhone". Every business person on the planet said "WTF! Get me an iPhone". Every CEO on the planet told their CIO's, "WTF! Allow iPhones on the networks". Lotus Traveler got installed in a whole lot of places after that. The guys flying this company into the ground are still there!

Speaking of RIM. Dear reader, your DR tests are useless. Until a disaster happens, your paper-based DR plan is like gold. After a disaster, your paper DR plan is used as bog roll.

Speaking of RIM. If you really want to pull yourselves out of this really, really bad year simply rename or prefix all of your products with the words "Social" or "Cloud".

Speaking of IBM. Literally every product or service was renamed or brute forced to have the word "Social" in it.

Speaking of IBM. Lotus was renamed to ICS. But only in private. And on email signatures. And on business cards. Shockingly neither email signatures nor business cards are private. Who knew?

Speaking of IBM ICS, they killed the blogger program. Luckily for me I don't post very often any more.....did I already say my Yellow Tiger Blood is waning?

Speaking of IBM ICS, I was hoping to see Quickr Connectors on the Mac.

Speaking of IBM, they started a Champions program. Yeah, yeah. I'm not one. Read this blog or listen to the podcast to find out why ;)

Speaking of This Week In Lotus, I missed my first ever episode. Now I've missed a few.....did I already say my Yellow Tiger Blood is waning?

Steve Jobs died. By all accounts the dude was a complete and utter dick (yeah, I know, kettle meet pot), but all the bad stuff is forgiven forgotten when you help build the stuff he did.

Speaking of Apple, I got an iPhone. Then a Macbook Air. I hated both at first. It's only been a few weeks with the Air and my dislike is still there although "hate" is no longer the word. Not a complete fanboy. Yet. But admittedly I prefer my iPhone over my Galaxy S now.

Speaking of Apple. I would love to see Quickr Connectors on the Mac......Did I say that already?

Speaking of Apple. You really need to put a 8GB RAM option on the Air.

Speaking of Apple. How on earth can you have a phone without being able to flag favorite contacts or quick dials?

On my trusty Lenovo T500 Thinkpad (we sell these you know....Lenovo I mean, not T500's specifically) I moved from Windows 7 32 bit with 3GB to Windows 7 64 bit with 8GB RAM. I highly recommend this. And RAM is cheap nowadays. Did I say I was getting old? I don't recall....... :)

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Windows 7 tip that I accidentally stumbled upon - or RTFM I guess

Darren Duke  December 15 2011 05:11:27 AM

See the screen shot below? See the red box I've highlighted? That is a button that will show the desktop. No. More. Constantly. Minimizing. Windows.




I've always right clicked on the taskbar and picked the option, but I guess since Windows 7 (at least, never used Vista) is now a handy shortcut.

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Quickr Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 11 has arrived

Darren Duke  December 15 2011 04:56:22 AM

Available on IBM Fix Central (direct download link for all OSes). A small one this time around, containing the following fixes:

11/28/2011	DTRR8LJM53 LO63711	Group can not be expanded in Room Membership when the group name starts with a pound sign (#).
11/28/2011	DWHN8LNCEW LO63705	Quickr doesn't display Scandinavian characters correctly for documents published From Quickr to Filenet.
11/21/2011	RSOI8N8F2T LO65163	When a notification is sent to a Member via the Member’s Page - More Actions - Notify and that place is set with a custom theme, when the user opens the link, the place is shown with the standard theme instead of the customized theme.
11/21/2011	RSOI8JFJXT LO62055	When copying a document based off a custom form to a Room and then copy custom form to room, changes made to that room's custom form are not honored in the already copied document. (see fix  RSOI8JFJXT in “Additional Information for special fixes” section)
11/21/2011	PPOR8N7JWV LO65172	Calendar date format is not correct, should be dd-MM for en-gb.
11/21/2011	MMOI8NA4NF MMOI8NA3ZC LO65257 LO65258	User name display error in group expansion and Member page when the DN does not start with "cn=" or "uid=". (see fix MMOI8NA4NF - MMOI8NA3ZC in “Additional Information for special fixes” section)

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Traveler 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 (aka 8.5.3.1) is available

Darren Duke  November 21 2011 03:58:07 AM

My iPhone DA Address fix should work with this provided you put it back in.....see this post for more details. Available from IBM Fix Central and contains the following fixes:


APAR #

Component

Abstract

LO62996

Server

Cancel "This and Future" from Apple device not handled as expected.

LO64280

Server

Upgrade on Linux OS may cause classpath issues since program directory changes.

LO64553

Server

Silent install on Linux ignores user and group name from installer.properties file.

LO64563

Android

Plain text mail does not wrap correctly on Android device.

LO64602

Server

Initial sync takes longer than expected when syncing large number of documents.

LO64693

Server

Database exception not logged during startup.

LO64714

Server

Large calendar item may cause calendar issue on Android client.

LO64718

Server

Server install may hang if server document or server ID is secured.

LO64722

Server

Exception during startup of Lotus Traveler server.

LO64744

Android

Device connects at midnight regardless of auto sync settings.

LO64972

Android

Mail sent from device missing carriage returns when viewed in plain text format.

LO65055

Nokia

Reply to signed mail and user is prompted to sign the reply.

LO65075

Server

Apple iOS5 devices may try to repeatedly sync folders.

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