One problem I've had with DDE 8.5 is that I could not copy an Action in a form and paste it into Shared Actions.  I work on a lot of older databases and replacing redundant actions with shared actions is one of the cleanup tasks I do.

Well, now with DDE 8.5 FP1, I can do this again.  Woot!

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Sorry for my swipe at the current marketing campaign, but I spent the last hour finding that Notes won't do something I thought would be a no-brainer.

I wanted to create a frameset that displays framesets from two external databases.  So, in Database A, frame1 points to Database B, and frame2 points to Database C.  Each frame uses a formula that retrieves the path to the external database from a profile document.  Turns out that the Notes client won't render a frameset that contains more than one computed frame to an external database.  One computed frame works just fine.  And it all displays properly in Domino Designer.  Ugh!

I even tried using Notes URLs, but Domino Designer doesn't allow Notes URLs for a Frame URL.  I found that I could get this to work if I use the folder icon to select each database and frameset within the frame properties.  I'm glad that I got something to work but I really wanted to use a compted formula for each frame in the frameset so that I'm not left with a hard-coded solution.

The problem is still there in Notes 8.5 too.

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I currently work for a client that has employed a distributed Domino infrastructure. Databases typically reside on up to twenty servers. Unfortunately, whenever specific users click on a doclink to a database they've never accessed before, they end up with an icon on the first server listed alphabetically in the domain.

Several Domino administrators I've worked with in the past explained to me what was happening, but I'd never seen any official documentation on this. So, I spent a decent amount of time today looking for documentation on this particular facet of Notes/Domino.  Thankfully, someone JY Riverin in the Notes 8.5 Discussion forum pointed me in the right direction:

How does Notes determine which replica to use with @Command([FileOpenDBRepID]) or a database link?

What's even more interesting is that the Designer Help doco for the FileOpenDBRepID @Command, makes no mention of the Catalog/domain search server setting in the Location document, or that the Domain Catalog comes into play.

Now that I have an official technote, I will be working with my client to possibly use policies to remedy this situation. Why the information in the above technote hasn't been incorporated into the Help databases is inconceivable!

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