Breaking Par Consulting Inc. Recent Tips

Deny Access vs Full Access Administrators

Matt Holthe — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0600

This is a pretty quick tip for all you administrators out there. I always thought that "Deny Access" was the be-all, end-all. But apparently not.

Turning single value processing function into multi value with @Transform

Matt Holthe — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0600

A co-developer recently had a list of document unique ID's. He wanted to look up a value from each of the documents. His first thought was to use @GetDocField, as in @GetDocField(unidList; "Form"). ("Form" wasn't the field he was looking up, but I'll use it here as an example). @GetDocField only works on a single value, so it was only looking up the field from the first UNID in the list.

Input Time Control and Time Zone

Matt Holthe — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0600

I was helping out another developer with a problem recently. They had an input control for a time value and wanted to show the time zone. The control wasn't showing the time zone, and I helped him get an easy work-around.

Image With Text On Top

Matt Holthe — Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0600

When creating a new application recently, I was given a logo image by the customer to be included in the upper left corner of the application (it was a Notes client application). The customer wanted also to have the application name appear on top of the image. There are a couple of ways to handle this, and this tip talks about some of them.

Reading a MIME Entity in the C API

Matt Holthe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600

I don't claim to be the best C programmer out there, but I have written DLL's, Domino server add-in tasks, and other API programs. When I was working with MIME trying to track down an issue someone was having, I didn't find much documentation on the subject. So I thought I'd share some findings, both for my reader's benefit and my own future benefit.

Timing LotusScript Agents

Matt Holthe — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600

Last week I published a tip talking about how simply making sure your variables have the correct data type can speed up your application. I realized when publishing that tip that there isn't anything on the Breaking Par web site that talks about how to time an agent. It's really quite simple, and I thought I'd mention it with this tip.

Defining LotusScript Variants

Matt Holthe — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0600

I keep seeing examples of LotusScript variables being defined in a way that they end up being Variant data types, so I thought I'd bring this up again as a reminder.

Document Locking and ws.EditDocument

Matt Holthe — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0600

I haven't used document locking very much, but one customer insisted on it. Then, after implementing document locking, I ended up with a bunch of replication/save conflicts. After several hours of digging, I came up with something I thought I'd share with all my readers.

Launch MS Word Document

Matt Holthe — Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0600

Someone recently wanted to be able to launch a Word document that was attached to a profile. (It was a "template" that they would fill out and then attach to a new document). He tried at first to get a handle to the attachment and use the Active method to start it, but that only works for OLE objects. Read on to find the solution.

Caching when updating responses

Matt Holthe — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0600

A friend of mine has an application that has documents in a parent-child relationship. The child documents have values that are computed based on the parent. When the parent changes, those children need to be updated. After the database grew quite a bit, the updating of the responses wasn't working any more. This tip shows a couple different ways of updating responses, and the "second" way solved my friend's problem.