Notes 7.0.2 doesn’t seem to solve my tiling background image issue… :-(

As reported previously we have been having some problems with form background images tiling across the form in Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for a certain application. Unfortunately the issue is still present in Notes 7.0.2 while the issue doesn’t appear in Notes 7.0. While Notes still has this issue we cannot recommend our customers to upgrade their client to 7.0.1 or 7.0.2. Bummer!

Bruce, Vince and Chris also had the problem in Notes 7.0.1 – does 7.0.2 solve the issue for you guys? I would very interested in hearing from you.

Disapointing news on the timetable for Hannover – release date pushed back?

I got quite disapointed when talking to a former IBM colleague of mine yesterday when he said that the public Hannover beta had been pushed back to 2nd quarter 2007 and the gold release pushed back to end 2007. From comments on Ed Brills blog I had gathered that a public beta would be available start of November 2006 (60 days from 1 September 2006) and from other discussions online that the gold release would be available mid 2007.

Does anyone have any credible info as to release dates? We need some solid information to tell customers.

Show ‘n Tell Thursday: Don’t rely on the default font-size (28 Sept 2006)


You should be aware of relying on the default font size of the Lotus Notes client when doing richtext programming via LotusScript. I found this out then doing an application that does the following:

  1. Grabs a document with a richtext item.
  2. Makes a copy of the backend document to do a reply-with-history style function.
  3. Remove some items in the backend and bring the document to the UI.
  4. Move focus to the richtext item and add a text like “User did function xyz at 07:41PM on 28 Sept 2006” using the InsertText method.

The problem here is that if the user just wrote an e-mail using the normal e-mail functionality where he ended the e-mail using a larger font, the text you add via LotusScript will be added using this larger font-size.

So when doing richtext programming be sure to always set the font-size or take some counter measure to avoid this behaviour.

Re: What’s up with Sametime 7.5 spellchecking?

I was made aware by a coworker that the UI language and the spellchecking language doesn’t go together as started previously. The only available spellchecking language in Sametime 7.5 is English. The dictionary for the spellchecking is located together with the IBM “langware”-plugin (see the “pluginscom.ibm.langware.v5.dic.en_US_5.3.1.9-20060714” directory) in the Sametime 7.5 install directory.

I wasn’t able to find any additional dictionaries but found a post in the Sametime forum on LDD requesting the same thing. I do not however think I would be well of by finding additional dictionaries since there is no way to specify the spellchecking language in the Sametime client UI.

What’s up with Sametime 7.5 spellchecking?

We have been running the new Sametime 7.5 at the office since its release and I must say that I’m impressed. The UI is slick and the new features have made it an up2date IM client. The small issues we had getting the server installed was, I guess, minor and could be expected. I have blogged about a couple of the issues previously.

I have an issue with the real-time spellchecking though. The feature is nice but apparently the spellcheck language follows the UI language which means that I cannot run the UI in English and have the spellcheck in Danish which is my native language. Separate options for UI language and spellcheck language would be nice. If IBM decides to do this I also think that they should consider letting the user set the spellcheck language from the button bar of the IM window for easy on-the-fly switching.