Upgradring 8.0.2 to 8.5

Upgrading to Lotus Notes 8.5 was just alot of work. And it should'nt be.
Playing with my setup I realize that this is all my fault. In an earlier post I told about the use of the "SETMULTIUSER=1" parameter. And it worked even when I installed All Clients, both Designer and Administrator.

But... when I wanted to upgrade I got busted. "You are atempting to upgrade a multi-user install blah blah please install the right package blah blah". Well my bad for doing a multi-user install for Designer and Administrator i Guess. I'd better uninstall 8.0.2 entierly and install the 8.5 Lotus Notes Client Only. Best put the Admin and Designer in a virtual machine.

Trying to uninstall I get the same message "You are atempting to upgrade..blah blahh..."

I ended up manually removing the Lotus Notes 8.0.2 Clients and reinstall 8.5.

The moral of this "Don't be to creative. Just because You can get some unsupported feature to work, does not make it a good idea to do so."

Happy New Year!!

It's three hours in to the new year. The celebrations were nice and quiet with a good traditional meal, good beer and ofcourse fireworks. This year I managed to capture some of it with my Nikon D40x. This picture is taken from my porch/balcony on the back of my house. I like the view from here.

Now it's of to bed. The new year start with someting very nice. Back on work on Monday, travelling to Lotusphere is only 11 days away. Yes the nice thing I had in mind is Lotusphere 09.

Happy new Year everybody!!

Notes 8.0.2 selection check marks.

New style of selecting documents.

Notes 8.x introduced a new way of selecting documents in the views. The whole row is highlighted and you can select several documents by holding the shift key or the ctrl key down. I guess most of the windows user know how this works.

But hey!! You can still turn the old style selection on. To do this you go to Preferences -> Basic and in the bottom of the list there is and option to show selection marks for selected documents.
This has been received as good news by the community, but beware.

Playing with this i noticed..

1. This work for mail and calendar and to do only, hence I believe this settings should be under the mail and calendar part of preferences and not Basic.

2. With the new style selection performing action on highlighted documents in a search result actually works.

I'll elaborate:

Doing a view search with the 'keep current order' or 'show all documents' will return you search result nicely. When you highlight a document and press an action like 'Reply without attachment' this will work!!

Now if you turn on the old style selection type, running action from the same search result sorting will fail, and you will get an error "No document is selected" Hah!! All the documents is selected, what gives?

In eariler clients this truly fails. The client gets all confused about which document is the selected one. In the above mentioned search result sorting types all docments are selected and hence have the selected check mark to the left. You may end up replying to the wrong document.
Who really studies the original text included in the reply message body field?

My hopes for the future

As the parameter to turn the old selection style on or off is in the basic section, I hope this is because this is something to be enabled for all views in any databases. By doing this, executing actions from a sortable search result will finally work...

I just could not resist!!!

...Finally. Redmond got it right this time.

..and here's my dog.

For all foreign readers of my blog, you probably don't know this. "Snill hund" means "Good dog".
This blog was intended to have some posts about my dog. But as you've might have guessed, it does not.
Until now.

Well, the familys dog is a Labrador Retriver. He's brown and almost a year old. And he really is a good dog. His name is Jaro.

Almost backed into beeing a dog owner, this has been quite an experience. Having a dog is something that the adults in the family must want. The responsibilty will be on mom and dad, no matter how many promises you might get from your children. That beeing said, it grows on you. Now I would not miss it for the world. It's a lot of fun, and a bit of hard work (agility training!).


In the picture you can see Jaro on top of "Lyderhorn" on of the mountains surounding Bergen.
A good two hour walk.