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A fast way to change NSF Replica IDs: Often a handy time-saver (and occasionally a life-saver)

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Try to picture yourself in this situation: An end-user alerts you to the fact that they just did something very bad to a Lotus Notes database—and…

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ACL inconsistencies giving you headaches? Here’s how to find and fix missing ACL entries on a Domino server using aclEZ

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Domino security is something of a mosaic, built upon, among other things, the many individual entries found in all the Notes database ACLs on a…

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Are your Lotus Notes databases bloated with view indexes? Here’s a trick to help you cut file sizes

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This post recounts a database optimization trick and Lotus Notes secret that was shared by Eric Houvenaghel at this year’s Lotusphere (Hat tip: it…

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Un-dead Lotus Notes Documents: How ‘ghosts’ can haunt your databases

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Have you ever seen a deleted document mysteriously re-appear in a Lotus Notes database? If you answered “yes” you probably weren’t hallucinating ……

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How *often* you click Ctrl+S can affect Lotus Notes application development

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Continuing in our series of Lotus Notes secrets, we’d like to share a strange little tidbit about design element replication (this is one of the…

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Building a Library of Lotus Notes Secrets

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All you Notes pros out there, does this story sound familiar? You get stuck on something so you ask yourself, ‘why isn’t this working?’; in the…

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How hiding views from the Lotus Notes client can bring a Domino server to its knees

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In Domino Designer, enabling the option to hide views from the Notes client has one very unexpected impact: It’s not just hiding the views from the…

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When Formulas Fail You: An Alternate Way to Search for Elusive Lotus Notes Documents

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It’s tough to find certain types of documents in Lotus Notes databases. For instance, a problematic application may be full of ‘orphan documents’…

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Previewing Lotus Notes Database Replication with scanEZ

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Despite the many advantages that come from the Lotus Notes and Domino secure distributed environment, it’s important to remember that replication…

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A Lotus Notes Application Signing Primer

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Design element signatures are something of a mystery for many Lotus Notes developers and administrators. So here’s a brief rundown of what design…

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A Better Way to Find and Fix Replication Conflicts in Lotus Notes Databases

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A Better Way to Fix Save and Replication ConflictsReplication and save conflict documents are, to a large extent, an unavoidable fact of life when…

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How to Deal with “Private” and “Private on First Use” Views

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Paul Davies posted a very interesting question in response to our Changing a Lotus Notes view’s status from private to shared article: I’ve spent…

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Changing a Lotus Notes view’s status from private to shared

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We recently received an interesting question from one of our customers: “Is it possible to toggle the private/public setting for views using Ytria…

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Introducing the Ytria Tech Lab

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Hi and welcome to the Ytria Tech Lab. We’ll be using this site to: Post articles on Lotus Notes development and Domino administration Share code…

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