Received one of the longest IBM links I have ever received the other day: http://w3-03.ibm.com/sales/supporVShowDoc.wss?docid=l0781
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Wow! You guys heard of tinyurl.com?
One of the coolest and most powerful features of Notes 8 is the MyWidgets sidebar and the ability to link widgets to text selection actions and/or LiveText.
The only thorn in the side is that not all users are capable of doing their own widgets and some widgets cannot be sent to them because they contain custom data. Take a widget that generate directions for instance. Normally the starting address and you choose the destination address but since the starting address it set it makes the widget difficult to share. What to do?
The solution is of cause to generate the widget on an ad hoc basic. Meet the Google Maps Widget Generator. The widget generator works as follows.
You point your browser at the Google Maps Widget Generator. From this page you follow the short instructions and drag the extension.xml to your MyWidgets sidebar. This installs the widget into your client.
To generate a directions widget you right click the widget and choose to open it in the sidebar (it isn’t visible by default).
Now specify the title you would like to see when right clicking text in the client in the top field (e.g. Google Maps from the office) and the source address in the bottom field (e.g. 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd, Lake Buena Vista, FL). Then click “Go!”
From the resulting page simply drag the extension.xml link to your MyWidgets sidebar to install the Google Maps widget.
Now your new Google Maps widget is available in your Notes client. To generate another widget click the “Generate another widget”-button and simply right click the widget header and choose “Close” to close it. You may always reopen it to generate new widgets.
The move of my blog has been completed and the performance is already much improved and it’s now actually possible to perform a search. Nice. If you do experience any problems please let me know. Thanks.
So I’ve finally grown tired of my blog provider. It’s just too restrictive, performance is very bad and the memory limitations means that I cannot even perform a search on my own blog. Very bad. I’m currently taking steps to move my blog to my own server and I hope to have it up and running very soon.
Be aware of running both CA process and ID Vault at the same time as the ID stored in the vault hasn’t been certified yet. The limitation is understandable but why it’s possible (i.e. the checkbox is available in the UI) to store a newly registered ID when using CA process can be confusing.
For more info see technote 1367969: ID Vault upload during registration fails when using Certificate Authority
So it’s been very quiet in lekkimworld.com land over the month of May. Nothing much have happened blog wise and with 5 posts including this one I think I’m at an all-time low. So what’s up with that? Well I don’t know; I think I’m just in the mood just now. It’s not like nothing is going on as I’m very busy evangelizing about Notes and Domino 8.5, teaching AppDev stuff to customers and generally a lot on the road. I’m just not blogging. Why? I don’t know. What’s even more wierd is why I want to share that…
I have some cool XPages/MyWidgets stuff I’ll probably blog about soon but except that I think I’m all blogged out for May. I expect normal operations to resume in June.
Just found this gem in the Lotus Connections Forum on how to force the language for the Lotus Connections UI using just two simples lines in the httpd.conf.
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What is happening
The certificate for some Java applets in Lotus Domino 6.5.x, Domino 7.0.x, Domino 8.0.x, and Domino 8.5 have an expiration date of May 18, 2009. Starting May 19th, Web users will see a dialog with a message similar to one of the following when loading a Web page that contains a Java applet from the Domino server:
“The digital signature was generated with a trusted certificate but has expired or is not yet valid.”
“The security certificate has expired or is not yet valid.”
This issue can occur even if IBM is set up as a trusted publisher in the browser.
What does this mean
Please be assured that this message does not mean security has been compromised. It simply reflects the expiration of the signature originally provided in the security certificate used with certain Domino applets. You can find an explanation in the following technote:
Title: “Security certificate expiration messages generated from Domino applets (May 18, 2009)”
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21381298
Action needed to resolve
To resolve the situation, you have three options: (1) Instruct users to “Always Trust” content from IBM, (2) if using Domino 7.x, upgrade to Domino 7.0.4, or (3) download and apply fixes. IBM recommends that you replace the affected Jar files (option 3) as described in the following download document for any supported release of Domino:
Title: “Download re-signed Java applets for Lotus Domino (May 18, 2009)”
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg24022981
Alternatively, an interim fix will be posted to Fix Central for the latest Modification and Fix Pack levels by May 8th. These include Domino 6.5.6 FP3, 7.0.3 FP1, 7.0.4, 8.0.2 FP1, and 8.5.0. If you’re not running one of these releases, access the download document above, which provides fixes for all supported release levels.
General Self-Help Resources
Here are links to other ways that you can access IBM Lotus Notes & Domino self-help support information on the Web:
Sincerely,
The IBM Lotus Notes & Domino Team
Actually started using Vista gadgets today and found a small media player that appears to do the job just fine. Really starting to like small, non-intrusive, applications that gets the job done.