This seems to be absurdly difficult to do. I remember registering on-line last year but I can't find Lotusphere as a testing site this year.

If you have registered for a test, please share how you did it!

See you all at the sphere!

-- Jeff

We have a process where a file is sent to a mail-in database from an outside source.  When the email with the attached file arrives, the attached file is processed by an agent that is triggered by the Before New Mail Arrives event.  I recently took over maintenance of this particular application.  Our end user complained that some documents that should have been updated by the agent, were not being processed.

In the agent log, I saw that sometimes the agent did not run to completion.  However, there was no error messages in the agent log. The server log did not even show the agent as having been run. 

The key to the mystery is the event that triggered the agent.  Agents triggered by the Before New Mail Arrives event are not run by the Agent Manager. They are run by the Mail Router.  The Mail Router is restricted by the server as to how much time it can spend processing any one mail document.  On our server, the time limit was set to 30 seconds!  I went back to the agent log, and sure enough, every agent run that failed to run to completion, was truncated at exactly 30 seconds.  I've asked our Admins to increase the time limit to 120 seconds and see if that give the agent enough time to run. 

What I really need to do is re-design this agent to simply flag the incoming mail doc, and have another scheduled agent to the heavy lifting.

The parameter can be found in the server configuration document  \ Router/SMTP \ Restrictions and Controls \ Delivery Controls \ Pre-Delivery Agent Time out.

Hope this can help others.

-- Jeff

Saw this on PC World this morning.

Nokia Unveils Thinner Smartphones to Do More With Less

But this bit,  about half way down, caught my eye:

The other new phone is the E75, the successor to the 9000 series Communicators. It has a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from behind the 2.4-inch, 320x240 pixel display, and a regular dialling keypad just below the display. Like the E55 it has a 3.2 megapixel camera, AGPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a FM radio and music player, but the key feature is its support for e-mail. It simplifies connection to Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, POP3 and IMAP e-mail services, or Web mail services such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail, said Öistämö.

"There's no need for middleware and no need for the BlackBerry tax," he said, referring to the additional BlackBerry Enterprise Server license fee that businesses must pay if they want employees to access corporate mail via BlackBerry handsets.

I love it that they placed Lotus Notes before MS.

--Jeff

I'm coding a web page where I want to display the user name and and user's employee number.

Getting the User's Name is simple enough. I just have a computed for display hidden field with a default value of @UserName.
 
But I also want to show the Employee Id, which is on the Person doc in the employeeId field.

At first I thought I'd have to do a look up into the NAB via the $Users view, find the person doc based on user name, and get the employee Id from the person doc.  That is until my co-worker, Colin, suggested I look at the @NameLookup() function. This one little function does exactly what I was plannig to do, and probaly much faster.  Now I have another computed for display hidden field called empId with a default value of @NameLookup([NoUpdate];@UserName;"employeeId") and my webdoc has instant access to the employee Id. And, as long as I have a User Name, I can quickly access any field on the Person Doc.

Just thought I would share.

-- Jeff

At Lotusphere 09 I attended the excellent session on setting up a domino server at home (BP202).
Later, I saw this Statement of Support from IBM for a Domino Server on a NAS. 

At home I have a Netgear ReadyNas Duo.
I've got plenty of disk space and I was wondering if anyone has tried running a Domino Server from one of these little boxes. Would it care about an operating system?
Any Thoughts?

-- Jeff