After upgrade, search page on old teamroom throws Application Exception - Search string is empty error

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Hi folks,

I didn’t find much with the magic of google for this one, so I’m wondering if anybody else has seen this.

I support a bunch of old teamrooms that haven’t had their design changed since way back. I did an upgrade to Domino 9 on the weekend, and the search function is no longer working for them. Whenever a user clicks the Search option in the menu, the URL is

http://domain/teamroom.nsf/By+Date?SearchView

There is a $$SearchTemplateDefault form that always worked.

After the upgrade, the server returns an error page:

HTTP Web Server: Application Exception - Search string is empty

Has anybody come across this, and is there a fix? I notice that there’s a technote for 8.5.3 FP4 here - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21639178 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21639178 - but in this case the fix is to uninstall the fix pack.

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Subject: Fixed in Interim Fix 4 for IBM Domino 9.0 (9.0.0.0)

I need to improve my googling

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650034 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650034

Phew! I’ll install that tonight and see if that fixes the problem. For now I’ve done a quick and dirty design change to whack a “&query=*” on the end of the search URL to keep things running.