Have a great Lotusphere !!

I will not be attending Lotusphere 2009. But I wish all those lucky people who are going a great time.
I will be watching the blogs for the stories to tell.

Good old @functions

From time to time we use Notes databases to store documentation for processes and projects. And to avoid that everybody enters information using their own format we ask peolpe to use predefined templates to create unity in the created documentation. Normally these templates would be provided as main documents in the database and the users will copy and paste these template documents.
Now I remembered from way back in Notes 3.3 that I had created a bit of @function code to allow users to pick a template from a list and copy the selected template into the document the user is working on.

This is how the @function code works:

• Let the user pick a template from a list of templates using @Picklist and and categorised view
• Open the selected template document
• Navigate to he body field
• Select all the content in this field
• Copy the selected content to the clipboard
• Close the selected template document (and view)
  
• Paste the selected content at the location of the cursor
  

Downside of this method is the screen seems to flicker as the function opens a view, a document, selects the body, closes the document, closes the view and pastes the content, but with the current workstation speeds it is hardly noticable.
How about that in the age of xpages, sidebar widgets and composite applications.

For those interested I have made a database available for download. The function is available on the main topic, place the cursor in the body field and click on the "import template" button.
CopyAndPasteTemplate.zip

Note: the download is stored on Dennis' blog, as I cannot find an option in Blogger to provide downloads of type zip.

Upgraded to designer 8.5 - something is missing

Up until now I have stuck to doing development in the R7 designer client. But now that we have planned to start upgrading to 8.5 in Q2 of this year I could no longer resist and installed the new domino designer 8.5 via the upgrade installer C1SQ5EN.exe (all clients, thanx Dennis for the explanation list of cryptic installernames).

But on opening the designer client, to my suprise the bookmarks I so carefully created and grouped over the years are not showing.
Searching help and the web has not provided an answer. So I am posting it to the community.

Does anyone have an idea how to import / restore the "old" bookmarks ?

A happy and properous 2009

So it has been a while since I posted here, actually a very long while.
But as one of the new year pledges to my self I will try to keep up this blog better updated more regulary.

To start I wish all the IBM Lotus fans around the world a happy and prosperous 2009.