IdeaJam(tm) feed for Roland Reddekop

re: Make ideajam firewall friendly

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:14:14 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Comment: @Matt White

I understand the challenge of programming for all the flavors of browsers and configs in the wild. Hats off to you and believe me I feel your pain. I'm pretty plain jane in my config: I just just mainstream browsers (IE7 and Firefox 3) to access gmail, facebook, myspace, domino web, and a plethora of other sites and I have yet to run into any other site where I need to disable my Symantec firewall before clicking on a button, so I imagine there is something very unique about the voting system on Idea Jam.

I would guess that the Symantec firewall I am using is one that would have one of the largest corporate distributions. And so, as you're commercializing Idea Jam and it will therefore deploy in corporate environments that could be very similar to ours, I would imagine you'll be needing to change the voting system eventually. Better to change it before it happens to a CEO of some prospective company and it ends up being a deal breaker. So this suggestion is moreless a friendly heads up and remember, "The customer is always right" even if they aren't :-)

re: Make ideajam firewall friendly

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:55:15 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: @Roland,

Thank you for the feedback about the Symantec Firewall issues you have experienced. Yours if the first experience we have heard regarding IdeaJam. IdeaJam is deployed in many companies and we have no reports regarding the Symantec firewall nor have we have heard of any regarding the public IdeaJam site.

So let's throw it out there (and I will post a blog entry about this) to see if anybody else is having the same experiences you are.

Again, your feedback is extremely valuable and we truly appreciate it.

Notes Client / Other: Make View Navigation consistent between standard Notes Views and Java Views

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:57:25 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: navigation
Idea:

To go to the beginning/end of a Notes View you used Ctrl+Home/End. For Java Views its just Home/End. Its a little frustrating to switch between two methods, especially for end-users who have no clue that Notes Views and Java Views are different.

re: Make View Navigation consistent between standard Notes Views and Java Views

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:48:55 +0000

Author: Bill Malchisky
Comment: Actually, in Notes, Home puts you to the beginning of the view -- horizontally; whereas End puts you to the end of the said row. Ctrl-Home puts you to the beginning of the view's top row and Ctrl-End to the view's bottom row.

Now, if the view lacks a horizontal scrollbar (or there is no other column off the screen {which includes a blank one}), then Home and End work as you described. For example, the Inbox in an ND8.0.x client, auto-resizes to avoid a horizontal scroll bar; this is a significant design enhancement as you'll always be able to see your data regardless of whether you have your side-panel expanded or not and folders.

So, it really depends on where one is, how well designed the application is, and what version of Notes they are using, as to the behavior here. It would seem that this is in-progress with the Eclipse based products.

Otherwise, a good suggestion as I completely support consistent design.

Notes Client / Other: More programmatic control over printing from Notes

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:38:26 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: printing
Idea:

I hate having to provide users with manual instructions on how to print landscape. This should be an option so the user can just click on print. Also, what about backend classes to print programmatically so that certain reports, maybe as PDF's can be produced via scheduled agents. I guess that's 2 ideas.

Notes Client / Core/Frameworks (Incl. sidebar, rich text editor): Prevent accidental closure of Notes home page

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:39:28 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: navigation home
Idea:

Since R5 the Home page was added to Notes (replacing the workspace) and many orgs deployed a corporate home page with news feeds and links to commonly used applications (often roles-based). Users are in the habit of pressing escape to close windows to get back to Home, but with 8, your home page now closes as well resulting in a temporary user "malfunction" until they find their way "Home" again.

Let's avoid this unnecessary disorientation by making the navigation of Notes 8 truly backward-compatibility with 5, 6, and 7. An Admin policy would be nice, but not required to control if the Home page is closeable or "pinned" open so you cannot close it with the escape key.

Notes Client / Other: Make any NSF the Home Page via Policies

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:51:11 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: navigation
Idea:

Make any Notes NSF and make it your "Notes Portal" via policies. Then you can use "hide-whens" and ACL roles to serve up the content that applies to each person's job. This will align Notes with the web-side of Domino where you just enter a URL into a server document to determine your initial landing page.

re: Make any NSF the Home Page via Policies

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:18:04 +0000

Author: Craig Wiseman
Comment: Agree 100%. This looks very similar to this idea:
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re: Make any NSF the Home Page via Policies

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:10:00 +0000

Author: Gregg Bendtsen
Comment: I thought this is already a Policies Setting document configuration. What am I missing here? On a Policies Settings document: Bsics tab, Homepage/Welcome Page Options

Lotus Foundations Start / : Support Standard External USB Drives for IDB Backup

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:53 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: backup
Idea:

USB Drives are inexpensive and ubiquitous...perfect for swapable backup on third party hardware

re: Support Standard External USB Drives for IDB Backup

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:04 +0000

Author: Ed Wolb
Comment: Have you tried using a USB drive? It is already supported.

Quickr / : Let Quickr Entry Use Folders

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:02:18 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: Quickr navigation
Idea:

I was disappointed, after the hoopla about Quickr Entry (formerly coined Quickr Personal) to see that it does not support folders, which makes it pretty unfriendly to get new users to use it. Don't expect to see our users drag and dropping their files to Quckr en masse now. I think if Lotus wants to fight Sharepoint they need to up the ante a bit here.

re: Let Quickr Entry Use Folders

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:03:49 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Roland can you post a screen shot of what this looks like? You can do so by editing your idea and attaching a png, gif or jpg.

re: Let Quickr Entry Use Folders

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:05:58 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Comment: Bruce, screenshot uploaded. I made it the max size supported on Idea Jam (450px). A higher max size would be better though...idealy 600 px. Hope this helps.

Couple notes:

--In Firefox, if you move your mouse over the "twistee" looking thing to the left of the Time label, it highlights, but there is no code to change views. Its almost as if the designers were toying with the idea of having different filters over the view like "by folder, by tag", etc. but pulled it out, except for this mouseover remnant. In the Quickr forum someone confirmed that Quickr Entry is a flat view only (no folders or by category or by tag). The only filter available over this flat view is Time.

--If you drag a file folder to the upload target, it ignores all sub folders

--In the Explorer connector, when you are working with an Entry place, the function to create folders is not available. Dragging folders into the Explorer connector results in sub folders being ignored

Lotus Foundations Start / : Post a Lotus Foundations Trial ISO online

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:26:17 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Tags: trial demo
Idea:

The Nitix product had a 30 day trial. Where's the Lotus one?

re: Post a Lotus Foundations Trial ISO online

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:25:57 +0000

Author: Jane Wilson
Comment: Hi Roland -

Thanks for the feedback. We also think trial versions of the product are important.

IBM business partners can download a copy of Lotus Foundations Start from the Software Access Catalog now. We are also working on making a 30 day trial download for potential customers and business partners and hope to have that available soon.

Kind Regards

Jane Wilson
Senior Product Manager
Lotus Foundations

re: Let Quickr Entry Use Folders

Thu, 15 May 2008 02:16:46 +0000

Author: Kevin Hansen
Comment: This is not only a great idea, but an essential feature from my organization's perspective. Quickr Entry is an incredibly valuable tool, but it won't be adopted (and thus, people will be less likely to want to also use the full Quickr version) unless they can create/import/drag-n-drop their folders.

re: Make any NSF the Home Page via Policies

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:16:04 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Comment: @2 Gregg - that policy doesn't do what I am asking...I've checked into it and it only gives you a welcome page that you add to the bookmark.nsf which has severe limitations e.g. no custom images.

re: Support Standard External USB Drives for IDB Backup

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:12:00 +0000

Author: Roland Reddekop
Comment: @1
Is this support documented? Note I am specifically speaking of USB for IDB backup. If its changed I'll withdraw the idea. I am going by the following 2 knowledge base articles:

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re: Support Standard External USB Drives for IDB Backup

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:44:34 +0000

Author: Ed Wolb
Comment: I suppose that depends on your definition of "support". The software will support standard USB drives, but Lotus Foundations Technical Support might not help you diagnose an error with it if it does not work.