Tips

Tips

Lotus Notes Domino Access, Permissions and Authentication

• Detect and fix 'Manager' access control list settings in Lotus Notes Domino

  Many Lotus Notes database access control list (ACL) settings are configured by default to "Manager" level. Learn how to detect and fix this permissions issue.  Continue Reading

• How to correct Lotus Notes public key mismatches in four easy steps

  If a public key in the Notes Address Book (NAB) isn't the same as the one in the ID file, processes fail, including email encryption, renames and recertifications, password checking and public key checking, and requests sent to the AdminP task. ...  Continue Reading

• How to update Lotus Notes documents after an employee last-name change

  After a last-name change, a Lotus Notes user may no longer have proper access to Lotus Notes documents, because they still contain her old last name. This LotusScript utility from SearchDomino.com member Scott Huyser solves that problem. It updates ...  Continue Reading

• Secure Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with LotusScript

  Want to protect your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from tampering? This LotusScript code from SearchDomino.com member Prasad Knair programmatically lets you secure a Microsoft Excel file with a password and prohibit what columns can be edited.  Continue Reading

• Controlling access to the Domino Directory with Extended ACL

  Extended ACL is an additional level of database access control, beyond the standard access control list, that allows you to control access to sets of documents within a Notes/Domino database -- much more easily than you could using Reader and Author...  Continue Reading

• Using a Lotus Notes ID to validate a user to a Domino server

  Learn how Notes ID files work and how they're used to validate users to a Domino server.  Continue Reading

• Inside Domino Certificate Authority in R6

  Even though Domino and Notes can be configured for high security, the power in the certifier ID file has been a problem.  Continue Reading

• Meet the Extended ACL

  The dialog box for configuring it is arguably the least intuitive and most complex of any that has ever come out of Cambridge and that is really saying something.  Continue Reading

• Rich text field workarounds

  Here are two Rich text field workarounds.  Continue Reading

• Domino and user authentication

  This tip details method used to prevent users from being prompted to enter their name/password several times when attempting to access a database that they do not have permission.  Continue Reading

• Build an extended directory catalog

  An easy way to give developers (and admins) all the customized views they want to access Domino directory data, but without adding/changing a single view to your production NAB.  Continue Reading

• Synchronizing your contacts

  This Lotus Notes/Domino utility synchronizes contacts located in your Lotus Notes personal address book with the contacts located in your Domino server based mailfile.  Continue Reading

• Can't launch attachments? Check the form security

  If you're experiencing problems with readers being unable to launch attachments, you might want to check the form security.  Continue Reading

• Managing recertification

  How to best deal with ID recertification timing.  Continue Reading

• Update ACL of selected databases

  This code allows you to easily update the ACL (access control list) so that the administration server is changed from the old server to the new server in a migration.  Continue Reading