The drive could not be mapped because no network was found

Symptom: 
When trying to map a network drive, you may receive this error: “The drive could not be mapped because no network was found”

Causes and solutions:

1. The workstation service is missing from the computer's list of services. Install the Workstation service by enabling the Client for MS network.

2. The Workstation service is stopped. Restart it and make sure the Status setup as automatic.

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Notes: Database is much bigger than expected

Symptoms:

A database with a very big size, does not have the number of documents (and/or attachments) that would justify it.

Possible cause:

Deletion stubs. When documents are deleted they are stored internally for a x number of days (depends on the database configuration), therefore they still occupy disk space. If the database has frequent deletion operations on a large number of documents, this can easily add up to it's size.

Solution:

How to remove the deletion stubs immediately? Follow this steps:

1.  go to the Replication Options of that database
2. select the Space Savers Tab and on the first option * ("Remove documents not modified in the last [x] days" replace the number displayed (usually 90) by 0.  * WARNING: do NOT select the checkbox before this option!!!
3. enter the database, exit and go back to the Replication Options and set that option back to the number of days it had before
4. compact the database.

The deletion stubs will have been deleted and, after compacting, the database's size should diminish visibly.

For more information see the IBM's Technote nº technote 1095683.

Notes: Border appearing around image, even though hotspot's border is disabled

Scenario:

An image, with a action hotspot around it, displays a border, even though the hotspot property "Show border around hotspot" is not set:

Solution:

Place the cursor to the left of the image and hit "enter" to add a line above it. The border will be gone.

View Error: Entry Not Found in Index

Scenario:


A view used for lookup suddenly starts to throw the error "Entry not found in index", even though there are documents that match the lookup key and no change was made to the view's design.




Problem:


The view has the option "ODBC Access: generate unique key" active and there are Replication Conflict documents displayed on the view.

Solution:


Add this formula to the view's selection formula, to exclude the Replication Conflicts and the error will stop:  !@IsAvailable($Conflict)

Notes: A Shared Action code was changed but it behaves as it wasn't

Problem:

The Shared Action's Lotus Script code is changed on the template and, after the refresh design, the working database's action button behaves as before the change.


Solution:

Place the Lotus Script code on an agent and call it from the Shared Action using formula (@comamnd([ToolsRunMacro];"agent_name").
This way the refresh design will always update the code correctly.

Notes: SelectAll in an embedded view does not work

Problem:
When using the formula in an embedded view, no document is selected.

Solution:
Use a button with these formulas:

@Command([OpenView];"view_name");
@Command([ViewCollapseAll]);
@Command([ViewExpand]);
@Command([EditSelectAll]);
@Command([FileCloseWindow]);
@Command([ToolsRunMacro];"(dummy_agent_name)")

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Notes: Document has not yet been saved error.

Scenario:

Embedded view on a form (or page) has an action button that invokes a LS agent to work on selected documents. This works fine in a regular view.

Problem:

This action button returns the error: "Document has not yet been saved".

Solution:

In embedded views, the LS needs to be in the action button.

Notes: When a space is not a space

Symptoms:

A field that receives numbers (either is a number field or is a text field that receives input from a number field on a dialog box), contains spaces (ex: 1 000 or 27 000) that can't be removed with a @ReplaceSubstring(field_name; " "; "").

Cause:

The number field has the "Punctuated at thousand" option set, which, in some user settings, causes the insertion of a space within the number. But this space is not the common ASCII character 32, but a special one: the ASCII character 160.

Solution:

Use this code:

sSpace1:=@char(32);
sSpace2:=@char(160);
sNumber:=@ReplaceSubstring(field_name; sSpace1; "");
sNumber:=@ReplaceSubstring(sNumber; sSpace2; "");

Notes: Insert a DocLink into a Rich Text Field while editing the document (without the need of saving it)

There's a lotus script solution for this but it will cause a Replication Conflict if the document locking functionality is active on the database.

So, an alternative is to have a page with an embedded view showing the documents list from where the user will choose the document to link to, and then call this page on a dialog box.
On the page's QueryClose event, add this:

@Command([EditMakeDocLink])

And on the form where the RichTextField is, add a button or an Action with a formula similar to this:

@DialogBox( "pg_name" ; [AutoHorzFit] : [AutoVertFit] : [NoNewFields] :
[NoFieldUpdate] : [SizeToTable] : [ReadOnly] ; "Insert Doc Link" );
@Do
( @PostedCommand([EditGotoField];"rtf_field_name");
@PostedCommand([EditInsertText]; @NewLine);
@PostedCommand([EditInsertText]; "Document link: ");
@PostedCommand([EditInsertText]; @NewLine);
@PostedCommand([EditInsertText]; @NewLine);
@PostedCommand([EditLeft];"2"); @PostedCommand([EditPaste]))

Notes: View Entry's ColumnValues returns an array for a specific column

This will happen if the column's property "Show multiple values as selected entries" is selected.

In this case the ColumnValues property of the NotesViewEntry class, will return an Array and the common way of obtaining it's value will fail.

To access the entry's column value weather it's an array or not, use this:

Function getColValue (vCol As Variant) As String
If Isarray(vCol) Then
getColValue = Cstr(vCol(0))
Else
getColValue = Cstr(vCol)
End If
End Function

And then use it like this:

stringValue = getColValue(vwEntry.ColumnValues(1))

Notes: Scheduled agents on server

If you want to run (for troubleshoot purposes, for instance) an agent directly on a server, with the server's id, and you have no access to the machine, just run it from the web:

http://your_server/your_db_path/your_db/your_agent?openAgent

Now just go to the server's log to check for debug and/or error messages.

Notes: After logout, authentication is no longer possible

Symptoms:

User presses the login button/link, inserts username and password and gets authenticated. Later he presses the logout button/link, and he is successfully logged out. If he tries to login again, he's unable to because the authentication form is never presented again (unless he closes the browser window and re-opens it).


Possible Solution:

In case the login link is like this:

top.location.href = "/database_path?OpenDatabase&Login">

change it to:

top.location.href = "/database_path?Login&redirectTo=database_path?OpenDatabase">

Notes: View doesn't refresh

Symptoms:

• permanently shows the Refresh Icon

• the "NoCache" parameter on the dblookup "doesn't work"

• the view.Refresh statement doesn't refresh the view

Problem:

The view probably uses @Now or @Today formulas in the Selection Formula or in a column, which prevents the view's index to be updated (it's always out-of-date as these formulas force the calculation to go to the minute:second detail).

Solution:

Use this formula instead: @TextToTime("Today") - it calculates only to the year-month-day so that the index only updates once a day.

Notes client: action bar properties are not rendered in the client

If the display border property of a view or form action bar is set to Always but it doesn't show when viewed in the client, check under File -> Preferences -> User Preferences -> Additional Options and make sure the option "Standard dialog boxes" is not checked.

Windows: Usb Hub is not recognized ("Unknown device")

If Windows XP does not recognize a Usb hub, and categorizes it as an "Unknown Device" even after updating the drivers, unplug the electrical cord from the hub and try again.

Notes - Lotus Script: Resume without error

Scenario:

A script ends and returns the "Resume without error" message, even though no error was thrown during it's execution.
Checking the Error$ function, it may return the message "Variant does not contain a container".


Possible solution:

Include in the script the "Option Declare" statement, correct all errors (undeclared variables) and save it.

Notes - LotusScript: function returning a notes document

Problem:

Even though the document is instatiated inside the function it is not returned to the calling code.

 

Explanation:

You're probably declaring and setting the value of the NotesDocument's parent database inside the function, which is outside the scope of the calling function. As a result, although you return the right document, the containing database is no longer open.

You can either pass the database *and* the document and pass them both back, or you can declare the database globally .
 

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Windows - ActiveX: ActiveX is enabled on IE but does not work

Other possible symptoms:

- unable to access MMC console (access rights message error, although having administrator rights) and/or unable to save a new one ("MMC cannot save the console");
- windows update not working or crashing the IE browser;
- msn messenger unable to connect.

Solution:
Go to Start -> Run and write: regsvr32 MSXML3.dll and click OK.