Composite Application Editor will not edit Page Properties - you're hosed
Category Domino designer Composite Applications
A colleague and I have within a couple of days both seen this in the Composite Application Editor:
If you see the same thing in your CAE, you are going to spend some time repairing your Lotus Notes 8 client.
Let me explain what's wrong with this picture.
If you are in the CAE and you right-click a Page and select "Edit Page Properties" and then click the Advanced tab, it is supposed to look like this:
You see a list of Page properties. You can click Add to add new properties, you can click Edit to edit existing properties.
In the first screen dump, the list is empty and clicking the Add or Edit buttons displays error messages. There must be some kind of corruption in the CAE that has happened when this phenomenon shows up, because if you open up the same Composite Application with a CAE from a different workstation, you are still able to edit the properties.
My fix for the problem was to de-install the complete Notes client, delete my local Notes Data directory and the re-install. Takes hours to do. I will now start doing my Composite Application development in a VmWare image, making sure I have a backup copy of the image to roll back to.
Does anyone know of a quicker way of fixing the problem?
A colleague and I have within a couple of days both seen this in the Composite Application Editor:
If you see the same thing in your CAE, you are going to spend some time repairing your Lotus Notes 8 client.
Let me explain what's wrong with this picture.
If you are in the CAE and you right-click a Page and select "Edit Page Properties" and then click the Advanced tab, it is supposed to look like this:
You see a list of Page properties. You can click Add to add new properties, you can click Edit to edit existing properties.
In the first screen dump, the list is empty and clicking the Add or Edit buttons displays error messages. There must be some kind of corruption in the CAE that has happened when this phenomenon shows up, because if you open up the same Composite Application with a CAE from a different workstation, you are still able to edit the properties.
My fix for the problem was to de-install the complete Notes client, delete my local Notes Data directory and the re-install. Takes hours to do. I will now start doing my Composite Application development in a VmWare image, making sure I have a backup copy of the image to roll back to.
Does anyone know of a quicker way of fixing the problem?
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Comments
Posted by Bram At 11:36:34 On 16-09-2009 | - Website - |
What preferences are going to go away? The ones that I access from File->Preferences?
It's still a lot easier than a complete re-install.
I will try it out next time I see it.
Posted by Jens Bruntt At 13:28:56 On 16-09-2009 | - Website - |
So I moved the workspace directory, then launched Notes. This creates the basic files. I tried opening Designer, it worked, proving the problem was a file in the workspaces directory. I then copied and pasted folders, bit by bit, back into the newly-generated workspaces folder. If, after pasting a folder, Designer wouldn't open then I deleted the folder and started repeating the process with sub-folders/files. Within half an hour I'd identified the (presumably) corrupt folder and lost none of my settings.
I would strongly recommend this systematic approach if some client setting stops working, because you'll lose fewer settings. If you've customised the Client in any way, you'll also spend less time doing it than recreating all your settings or (even worse) trying to remember where you downloaded various widgets.
Posted by Paul Withers At 15:23:05 On 16-09-2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Bob Balfe At 15:54:06 On 16-09-2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Jens Bruntt At 07:36:56 On 17-09-2009 | - Website - |
We are running 8.5fp1 og Windows XP and Vista.
Posted by Jens Bruntt At 07:45:25 On 17-09-2009 | - Website - |