If you are a Domino designer I am 100% sure you are as frustrated as me when you double click any design element and it takes for ages for it to open.
Solution:
1. double click the design element
2. click on any other tab of a view..
usually the design element then opens immediately
BUT: be aware that you didn’t “single-click” first on another design element, cause that would cause that element to be opened 🙁
yours
iPinky7
Hi again
Here is an update on “easiest way to open design elements” which seemed to be very obvious..
In the other post (see link above) I wrote that the keyboard shortcut <ctrl><shift><r> does not always work when the focus is wrong.
but you can easily change the focus to the “Applications” view with another shortcut: <ctrl><F7>.
Actually <ctrl><F7> is the same used to switch focus in the client (see here)
So in the designer you would get a popup menu something like this:
Does it appear to you that you would like to see all mail by person? well.. that’s easy.. just open the view all mail by person
Have you ever heard about the “Collaboration History”?
This feature is WAY cool… (I 100% doubt that the big MS brother can do it 😉
See how it works:
Just right click on a mail in your mail box. select the name of the sender (or recipient, in case you sent that mail) and then select “Collaboration History”
I’m loving it
Does it happend to you over and over again that you type the same lines of code for achieving simple stuff?
Happens to me several times a day.
Solution:
With Domino 8.5 designer you have it:
Open the view “Snippets”
are you frustrated with the BIG, I really mean B*I*G, navigation on the left-hand-side?
all those design element categories, you are constantly opening and closing categories or subcategories
Solution:
Use <ctrl><shift><r> and start entering the prefix of your element you are looking for (frm for forms, view or lup for views or lookup views, class for LS classes, agn for Agents, pg for pages etc…)
in fact I just figured out: views can’t be found: typing view will not yield anything. luckily you can enter *view or *lup to find all your lookup views.
You could even use something like *xyz*view to find a view containing xyz.
You can with <ctrl><F10> open the “menu” for the dialogbox, that way it’s also easy to switch/choose the working set from your keyboard
The only thing I miss here is the possibility to search for “aliases” too
too bad <ctrl><shift><r> is not enabled always. In the Navigate menu you can always access it but for some reason it’s not always bound to the key sequence 🙁 (open a Script Library and check the Navigate Menu)
but in such bad circumstances you could still use the accelerators: <alt><n> and <u>
I have reported this issue via feedback
report it too (<alt><h> and <s>) to increase the awareness of it on IBM side!
Are you annoyed with the Sidebar taking too much space?
Solution:
use keyboard shortcuts to open/close:
to open use <ctrl><4>
to close use <ctrl><0>
you can use <ctrl><F7> for a menu with open panels:
You can then use the keyboard to select a panel (let’s say Sametime), you then use some <tab> keys to navigate to the searchfield and you can easily find your desired chat partner without the need to use the mouse
Do you hate the “Workspace” in Lotus Notes?
Are you lost finding your applications?
Solution:
1. use bookmarks and folders and give the folders intelligent names
2. use the open button (<alt gr><b> or <ctrl><alt><b>, <alt gr> = the righthand-side <alt>)
I have a project called AWC. typing in awc will find too many items. but using .AWC as a folder (DOT AWC) I can enter .awc and it lists only that folder
Do you miss additional language dictionaries to spell check your texts in Lotus Notes 8.5.2?
Here is the solution:
Steps:
1. download this Zip File (Notes_XTAFDictionaries_852_WinLnx_Ml.zip)
2. extract the updateSite for the dictionary you need (I use C:temp)
3. extract the extracted updateSite (I use in this example: C:temp)
4. Ensure in the Notes client that you can use Widgets: FilePreferencesWidgets
5. select ViewRight Sidebar PanelsMy Widgets
6. select ViewRight SidebarOpen (or use <ctrl><4>)
7. select the right hand side MenuConfigure a Widget from…Features and Plugins on an Update Site
8. enter file:/c:/TEMP/site.xml
9. click load and select the displayed feature then click Next > and Finish
10. Restart your Notes client and select the new dictionaries to be used for spell checking
