Moved from Ukraine to Denmark

From 1-st December I work and live in Denmark. It's really interesting experience for me and my family. I had been working with e-conomic from Kiev for more than 3 years and at some point company decided that it had sense to invite me to work in main office. Now I'm here, so wanna tell 'hi' to those who live here :)

Couple fresh photos of Copenhagen.

City is ready for Christmas:

Now most funny thing :), we met hundred well organized girls, they marched along the main shop-street of the city and cried slogans about Justin Bieber. It was really funny.

What is comfort zone for Domino developers our days?

Lotus Script is no longer in my 'comfort zone' anymore but Java/JavaScript. That's actually it. We already moved all (well 90%) of backend to Java. Now Lotus Script serves only to provide validation/picklist/msgbox on forms/views for existing 'classic' applications. Now we are slowly moving everything to web and I like that.

We are aiming in few years to let our users to un-install LN and simply use browsers and that would be perfect. That time we should have no even 1 line LS and @Formula.

Exception occurred calling method NotesAgent.runWithDocumentContext(lotus.domino.local.Document) null

Tried to run agent with 'context document' in xPage (via SSJS) and got this problem. I did not find a way how to solve that except to enable checkbox 'Run as Web User' for agent, however I need to run agent from 'signer' as 'runner' has Reader access and my agent update should document. It's terrible with this problem (if it is problem ofc :)). What should I do know?

ViewEntry and Show multiple values as separate entries

When your view has column with option 'Show multiple values as separate entries' and you use ViewEntry to read data from that column you will have a problem. Result of your getColumnValues() can be different, f.x. in 1 case it can be 'Vector' and in another case 'String'. It depends if entry was really split on few entries because of multi-value. I've lookup around and found this issue already reported on IBM ~3 years ago (IBM whats up?)

Full description of problem

Here is a solution I made

Vector v = entry.getColumnValues();
Object o = v.get(0);
String title = "";
if (o.getClass().equals(String.class)) {
 title = (String) o;
}
else if (o.getClass().equals(Vector.class)) {
 Vector tmp = (Vector)o;
 title = (String) tmp.get(0);
}

Content Is Not Allowed In Prolog

Got this issue in the morning. We have service that "aggregate" data from multiple RSS into 1 RSS. The issue appeared because at one of RSS we enabled encode option [encode UTF-8] but not [encode UTF-8 without BOM]:

encode in UTF-8
encode in UTF-8 without BOM.

our Java parse does not understand this BOM (byte order mark). So we just swtiched to one without BOM byte. I've made tests using this online tool, it worked just as I expected XMLValidator

Cool trick which I never saw in LotusScript. Pass function as parameter.

Read this code

'Comments for SetValue
Sub SetValue(src As Variant, target As Variant)
 If IsObject(src) Then
  Set target = src
 Else
  target = src
 End If
End Sub

'Comments for Test
Function Test(value As Variant) As Variant
 SetValue value, Test
End Function

You can call Test(now) or Test(customobject) or Test("ABC") it will return you just same object/value. nice, isn't it?

msgbox Test(now).DateOnly
msgbox Test("Helllo")
msgbox Test(customobject).customProperty

Do not see right now really huge benefits from this but just nice to know this.

Default sort order

Guys, does anybody make it (Default sort order) working? I played to much with it without success, my Domino server still ignore sorting (as Swedish) for my application.

Predefined NoteID for design elements and applications

Sometime those NoteIDs can be quite useful, so I decided to gather all of them into place I can easy find.

FFFF0002 "About This Database" document
FFFF0004 Default form
FFFF0008 Default view
FFFF0010 Database icon
FFFF0020 Database Design Collection (view)
FFFF0040 Database ACL
FFFF0100 "Using This Database" document
FFFF0800 Replication Formula

ReplicaID for few databases:

0000000000000E00 Mail database
0000000000000E01 Personal Address Book
0000000000000E02 Subscription Database
0000000000000E03 Bookmark

Create Lotus Notes views on fly

I'm wondering if somebody know how to use views that I created on fly, lets say we have document with embedded view which is not created yet. Before we open this document we create view (but simple triggering agent). However we can't use this view as embedded view on document till we reopen database. Anybody has any idea how we can avoid this problem?