Notes / Domino by Jesper Kiær
Notes Client - sending crazy key combinations to interact with Windows
By Jesper Kiær | 3/31/25, 1:49 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In my earlier blog entry I showed how to refresh the Notes Client UI with F5 sending key presses from code.
Using the same technic you can do some wild stuff, since you can almost simulate any keypress on the keyboard.
In an Action button you could for example:
- create email (CNTL + M)
- log out of Notes (CNTL +F5)
- lock Windows Windows key + L)
- show emoji bar (Windows key +.)
- show previews of open applications (Windows key + tab)
- print screen (ALT + PrnScr)
F5 - UI refresh from code
By Jesper Kiær | 3/27/25, 9:04 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In the Notes client you can refresh the UI by pressing the F5 (F9) button.
This means for a document the UI document gets recalulated and updated.
There are methods to something similar in code, UI.reload, UI.refresh etc,
In the backend document you can call doc.computewithform, but my experience is that with a complicated form with maybe both LotusScript and Formulas it will often fail.
Sometimes you just need a simple F5 refresh to update the document...because it works.
So here is a way to make a F5 refresh from LotusScript and Java.
Classic Domino and HTML 5
By Jesper Kiær | 5/28/24, 8:21 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Sometimes a simple web application based on classic Domino is in place.
However Domino has not been updated in this area for many years.
If you create a form and use it on the web it will create a very old HTML document type.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
In 2024 you probably want to use HTML 5 and some of the newer features in it.
Fortunately you can change it to HTML 5.
The very useful little feature of a NotesItem
By Jesper Kiær | 10/2/23, 2:02 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Sometimes there are these little things that you somehow do not notice ...until one day you do.
The thing I stumbled on, is that the NotesItem has a property called "SaveToDisk".
You can set whether a NotesItem should be saved to disk or not when a document is saved,
How to get a Live Text Widget up and running.
By Jesper Kiær | 9/28/21, 1:40 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
I recently wrote about how Live Text was very popular at customer, because it would recognize certain text everywhere and provide a related document lookup.
It is very simple and no coding is involved, but you may need to use some Regex to define what text is to be recognized.
Hogne B. Pettersen in the comments asked if I could show how it could be done
So here is a way to get you up and running.
Nevermind.dk
By Jesper Kiær | 8/24/20, 5:03 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Recently at a customer I had made some changes to a solution. I was running HCL Notes V11 and everything ran fine on my PC.
Soon an office complained about some code had stopped working.I had upgraded a script library to a newer version of Apache POI for working with Excel files in some agents.