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Life is too short to drink che...Blog Authors: Barbara Skedel |
Change DWA Preference defaults
Barbara Skedel
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Does anyone know what form(s) I need to modify to change the default setting for all list-type views from show all documents as a scrollable list to show documents one page at a time (faster load time)? This is on the basics tab under preferences. My management is asking that we change this for all mail files, as well as prevent the user from modifiying it.
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1 Chris Whisonant Permalink I've never looked into modifying this in the templates. From looking at the 8.5 Public Beta and even technotes, there will be a Lotus iNotes tab in the Mail Policy. However, the scrollable list option is not one that's appearing in the policy document (at least not in Public Beta 2).
2 Barbara Skedel Permalink That's what I was afraid of. Searching the Domino support pages, it appears that if you know the name of the field you can run an agent against the inotes profile document and change the value, so now I'm trying to see if I can find out what the field name is.
3 Chris Whisonant Permalink You should be able to figure it out using NotesPeek... :)
4 Dale Cole Permalink I thought about this and this is what came to mind. I haven't tested this so it is "in theory."
1. You manually make the changes through preferences within the
database.
2. If that change could be made within the Lotus Notes client, all
you would have to do is open the template in the Lotus Notes client
and make the change in the template. Then all databases that
inherit from the template would have this change. Although the user
can change it back, but at 1am when the design task runs on the
server it will change it back to what the template has. :) Don't
know if you can make the change within the Lotus Notes
client.
3. If not, then you can find which view (or form) by looking at the
view (or page) properties in the browser - right mouse click on the
webpage and choose properties. If that doesn't work then you would
have to go through the web views (or web forms or just forms) for
the template in the Designer database.
Hope my thoughts were somewhat helpful?
5 Barbara Skedel Permalink You cannot make the change in the Notes client. I found an agent that I can run against the mail file that will change the field value on the iNotesProfile document:
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim Count As Integer
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set doc = db.GetProfileDocument("inotesprofile")
count = "1"
doc.ListViewType = count
Call doc.save(False,False)
I tested this against one mail file and it works. However, it
doesn't prevent the user from changing it back. I have yet to find
how this field gets set by default so when new mail files are
created it would already be set as we want. I just plan on running
the agent once a week against our mail files.
6 Chris Whisonant Permalink Good to know! Is there an inotesprofile document in the template, by chance?
7 Barbara Skedel Permalink Chris, I couldn't find it in the mail template; However, I did find information in the Domino Web Access 7 Customization redbook on how to change the default settings for preferences. You modify the s_MailPreferenceEditCode form in inotesX.nsf (where X is the
version of Notes you are using, ie inotes8.nsf)
In order to change the default of the option in the profile
document, the form s_MailPreferenceEditCode has to be modified.
This form contains the code to set the default values in the
preferences form.
To modify the default, open the form in Designer and search for the
string you want to change the default setting for (ex.
ListViewType|0) and change the value (ex. ListViewType|1). Save end
exit the document.
This has to be done on your registration server so that when the
new mail file is created it picks up the new default setting.