A Notes customer I supported years ago has been using web mail for a long time due to some customizations made to their Notes mail template. They finally got around to porting all of their customizations to the 6.5.5 iNotes mail template and want to switch all of their users over to it shortly. Unfortunately, they are getting this iNotes warning when their mail file opens to the Welcome Page:



I forwarded this technote to my client and asked for more information on his environment. Here's what I got back so far:

• Domino server is at Domino 6.5.5
• customized mail template is based on the iNotes 6.5.5 mail template
• PC recognizes DST
• Server recognizes DST
• The Domino server's OS is Windows 2003 SP2
• PC is running Windows XP Professional SP2

Based on that, my client shouldn't be getting that warning. My client added the iNotes_WA_UseServerTZSettings=1 to the NOTES.INI and restarted the server, but the warning remains.

I really don't want to tell my client to customize forms6.nsf, and they don't want to configure iNotes to not open to the Welcome Page. I'm guessing at this point that the only option left to my client is to follow the steps in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 942763. Did anyone else out there use this method to resolve this problem? Or is there some other trick he needs to get rid of that prompt?

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It seems my blog entries on customizing iNotes has gotten some attention. I received an e-mail today from Sir Thomas Duff, who let me know about his informative article titled Modifying the Domino Web Access Mail Template: Yes, It Can Be Done! on the e-pro website. Checking out the related links, I found another article on customizing iNotes by Chris Miller, Today's Underexposed Cool Tool: Domino Web Access Skin Editor. I've let my current customer know about the DWA Skin Editor, just in case they'd like me to customize iNotes to match the corporate colors. I wonder if the Lotus Workplace Messaging will allow any sort of customizability, as we're used to with the Notes mail templates?

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Using the Domino Web Access 6.5 on Linux Redbook, I was able to successfully add a button to the Domino Web Access action bar. For some reason, the add a function for showing a web page example didn't work. The Javascript code in Example 11-1 said to add the following to the Scene_Actions function in the Custom_JS form:

a_Actions[a_Actions.length] = {pos:100, title:'ITSO Redbook Page', href:'http://www.redbooks.ibm.com'};

While the [ITSO Redbook Page] button did appear in the action bar, when I clicked on it, I got a HTTP Web Server: Couldn't find design note - http:/www.redbooks.ibm.com error:



Fortunately, the provide a function to show an alert or dialog box example did work. I replaced the above JavaScript statement with this:

a_Actions[a_Actions.length] = {pos:100, title:'ITSO Redbook Page', href:'javascript:openWindow ( "http://www.redbooks.ibm.com")'};

and added this new function to the bottom of the JavaScript in the Custom_JS form:

function helpDesk () { var newWindow = window.open ( '/HelpDeskForm.nsf/CTR?OpenForm','helpdesk','toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes,directories=no,height=450,width=550' ) } function openWindow ( url ) { var newWindow = window.open ( url,'newWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes,directories=no,height=450,width=550' ) }

Worked like a charm.

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Ha! The information on how to customize Domino Web Access is in the Domino Web Access 6.5 on Linux book. Chapter 11. Now I just need to read and understand it.

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One of the assignments on my plate is to add a button to the Domino Web Access (iNotes) design. My customer is currently using LND 6.5.2. From what I've heard, there is an IBM Redbook that describes how to customize the forms6.nsf, but my customer hasn't been able to locate it. When I looked for RedBooks on DWA, all I found were books that involved platforms other than Windows. Very strange.

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