Ytria Tech Lab

The many and various ways of accessing Lotus Notes data with Ytria tools

Peter Woodford — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:11:21 +0000

If you’ve been using Ytria products for any length of time you’ve probably noticed that the tools are designed to run independently of your current Lotus Notes session. As one user noted, this means the tools won’t tie up your Notes session while processing databases. With that in mind, we’ll be going through a number [...]

Understanding Lotus Notes Parent/Response document hierarchy

Peter Woodford — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:03:04 +0000

The way that Lotus Notes manages document relationships is quite flexible and powerful but it’s also an area where you might encounter some problems. And we certainly get a lot of questions from customers related to the Notes document hierarchy. With this in mind we decided to write a short backgrounder on how Notes deals [...]

Design element hiding: A quick way to gather complex selections of Lotus Notes views

Peter Woodford — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:58:37 +0000

The version 10 release of Ytria’s EZ Suite toolkit was a major upgrade that brought a veritable cavalcade of new features (and the more recent 10.5 upgrade was no slouch on a features front either). That’s of course great and all but it also introduces the small problem of less flashy new features getting unjustly [...]

Better ways to explore/manage NAB groups and nested groups on Domino Servers using aclEZ

Peter Woodford — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:22:04 +0000

Lately we’ve heard from a number of customers who’ve been struggling with ever-more complicated group situations on their server NABs (Notes Address Books). One of these customers works as an admin at a company with a large and complex end-user population and we thought his story, might be interesting for other aclEZ users out there—particularly [...]

Get the last ‘lulz’: Verify Lotus Domino security with your Ytria toolkit

Peter Woodford — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:14:42 +0000

A spate of major digital security breaches have made worldwide headlines in the past year. In some cases, the cyber attacks were undertaken by politically motivated ‘hacktivists’; others attacks were criminal in nature; in other cases, the perps were arguably mischief-makers above all else. These events must have been miserable for the IT staffers at [...]

Upgrading Lotus Notes folder/view designs: a scanEZ tutorial for advanced users

Peter Woodford — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:15 +0000

We recently needed to update a number of folders in an internal application and found that scanEZ along with the undocumented ‘@UpdateViewDesign‘ @function provided us the best and easiest way to do this. The actual task at hand might not be something you’d personally need to do but if you can bear with us, the [...]

Lotus Notes Profile document management and troubleshooting with scanEZ

Peter Woodford — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:18:56 +0000

Though scanEZ is very much a general purpose Lotus Notes and Domino database toolkit, folks often tell us that Profile document issues were what compelled them to download and try the software in the first place. This post will briefly go over the basics of Profile document management with scanEZ; plus show you how to [...]

Introducing databaseEZ: The serverwide Lotus Notes database property manager

Peter Woodford — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:38:16 +0000

These are exciting times here at Ytria—we’ve recently released a new tool for Domino administrators. It’s called databaseEZ and it lets you see and manage global database properties for a Domino server. We’re going to use this post as a guided tour, so to speak, of its most basic features. The databaseEZ main screen The [...]

Keep track of Shared Action usage in Lotus Notes applications with actionBarEZ

Peter Woodford — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:47:47 +0000

In these days of XPages and Web-access Notes applications one might inclined to feel that Lotus Notes Action Bars are hopelessly passé. But even if that it were so, what about all those legacy Notes apps out there that still need maintenance–they’re chock full of Action Bars? We here at Ytria are still getting plenty [...]

Back from the NSF grave: How you can (sometimes) restore deleted Lotus Notes documents

Peter Woodford — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:11:47 +0000

Notes/Domino data loss is never fun. It’s bad enough when you lose data because of random bad luck (say, cosmic rays decide to bombard your hard disk sectors), but it’s particularly infuriating when it’s caused by the pure carelessness of others. Yet every so often there’s a happy ending to these apparent IT catastrophes. Consider [...]