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Today i setup a Domino V12 server just for test some new features. A customer ask to use photos on Verse hosting photos on Domino.

Domino V12 comes with Verse 2.0. I just download the version 2.1 of Verse and follow the installation instructions.

After the setup i just put a URL of a PNG image on the person document, field photoURL  and add the entry VOP_GK_FEATURE_230=1 to the notes.ini of the server.

Works Great



Yesterday it seemed like it would be an ordinary working day but a client called me informing about the expiration of a certifier. It would be normal to resolve the problem with the re-certification procedures but it was a special certificate.

This client has been using Notes/Domino since version 4.0.  When I saw the certificate creation date 05/09/1996 I was impressed.

This customer uses the environment for mail and applications for 25 years!. How times flies

I started working for this client in 1999 by installing the first R5 server (5.0.4) on an IBM Netfinity 5500 Server running Windows NT 4.0.

The hardware is gone, the operating system and the administrators who created this certifer are no longer in the company.  I believe they never imagined that the day to re-certify would come.

I learned a lot from this client and from the environment they have.

There are dozens of servers, thousands of users, hundreds of applications and a lot of success history to tell.



1. Open the Domino directory
2. Select the Server view
3. Select Programs view
4. Click Add Program
5. Under the Basics tab and in the field Program name enter: nserver
6. In the Command line enter:
    -c “tell http restart” ( for restarting the HTTP Task )
 7. Fill in the Server to run on field and also set a schedule under the Schedule tab.
8. Save the document
If you want to see the schedule at the Domino console type show sched



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This history began in 2011 when the category IBM Champions for Social Business was created. At that time there were only 50.  During the following years I was also nominated in other categories such as IBM Middleware, IBM Cloud and recently IBM Watson IoT.

It is a journey of many years, a lot of learning and also knowledge sharing.




When you create mail journaling you can encrypt all documents using the Administrator ID.  Last week a customer ask to add access for another user (developer). The Admin remove the database encryption but lots off documents remain encrypted . The solution was to remove the document encryption using the following steps:

To remove encryption from documents:

1. First, create a view named “Encrypted”. The view selection formula you use will vary depending on the type of database with which you are working.


  • If working in a mail file, then use the following:
      • SELECT (Encrypt = “1” |  EncryptionFlags = “2”)

    If you are working in a non-mail file and want to remove encryption from documents encrypted with a Private key, then use the following formula:

      • SELECT @IsAvailable(SecretEncryptionKeys)

    If you are working in a non-mail file and documents may be encrypted using either a Public or Private key, then use the following:

      • SELECT @All

    In the above scenario, if you want to remove encryption based on the Form or other field value, then remove the @All. For example: Select Form = “Report”.

    In other scenarios, use an ampersand (&) to add additional criteria to the selection formula. For example: Select Form=”Report” & @IsAvailable(SecretEncryptionKeys)

  • 2. Create an agent with the following code. Set it to run manually from Actions menu on all documents in the database.

Dim s As New notessession
Dim db As notesdatabase
Dim view As notesview
Dim doc As notesdocument
Dim nextdoc As notesdocument

Set db = s.currentdatabase
Set view = db.getview(“Encrypted”)
Set doc = view.getfirstdocument

While Not doc Is Nothing

  • Set nextdoc = view.getnextdocument(doc)
    'The below loop is mandatory to ensure that all $File entries are unecrypted
    Forall i In doc.items

    • If i.isencrypted Then
      • i.isencrypted=False

      End If

    End Forall
    'Must have at least 1 field encrypted in order to call Encrypt method
    Dim temp As New NotesItem(doc,"tempjunk","temp")
    Call doc.encrypt
    Call, False)
    'This portion can now remove the fields relative to encrypting the
    'single token encrypted field.
    Call doc.removeitem("$Seal")
    Call doc.removeitem("$SealData")
    Call doc.removeitem("SecretEncryptionKeys")
    Call doc.removeitem("Encrypt")
    Call doc.removeItem("tempjunk")
    Call, False)
    Set doc = nextdoc



When using the Domino Administrator client, the Rules tab does not display when you select Messaging Settings on the Configuration tab.  You may also notice that after a Configuration document is edited from the Domino Administrator client, the Rules tab no longer appears when the document is viewed from the Notes client.


The issue occurs because the “ActForm” field is present in the configuration document.


To resolve the issue, delete the ActForm field from the Configuration document. There are two approaches to accomplish this:

Approach 1: Create a Formula agent, designed to act on selected documents, to delete the field ActForm:

Steps to create the agent:
2. From the menu, select Create -> Agent.
6.  Enter the following code into the main window:
FIELD ActForm :[email protected]
7.  From the menu select File -> Save.
8.  Exit from the Domino Designer client.

Steps to run the agent:
1. Open the Domino Directory from the Notes client.
3. Select the affected configuration documents.



Approach 2: Code can be added to the ServerConfig form so that it deletes the field when the Configuration document is opened.

2. In the left pane, select Forms.
3. In the right pane find and open the Form “Server\Configuration Settings”.  Note: The form’s Alias is “ServerConfig”.
4. In the lower left pane the Objects tab will be selected by default, locate and select the Queryopen event listed.
5. Paste the following code into the Programmer’s Pane:

Dim doc As NotesDocument
Set doc = Source.Document
If Not doc.Isnewnote Then
If doc.HasItem(“ActForm”) Then
Call doc.RemoveItem(“ActForm”)
Call, True)
End If
End If
End Sub

6. From the menu select File->Save.
7. Exit from Domino Designer client.






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