I’m trying to modify the Notes shortcut icon to add the ini parameter “=U:\Lotus\Notes\Data\Notes.INI”, yes I know running off a network share isn’t supported… I can get the parameter to add perfectly when I package using the Notes 8.5 Basic Client, but it won’t add to the Notes 8.5 Standard Client.
I hit on the idea of adding a new icon, this works and allows me to add the parameter. Great I thought to myself, but if I try to either remove the default shortcut under System Configuration or drop the rows from within Direct Editor, Shortcuts, neither method removes the default icon. I therefore have the working custom icon which I’ve added and the default icon which doesn’t work. Has anybody tried removing the default icons and if so, have you had this problem?
I can also reproduce this in 8.0.2, so am thinking that because of the eclipse client, the method of removing/changing the icon is different.
This is a know issue with 8.02 and 8.5. We are working on a solution for 8.5.1, in the mean time, here is the suggested workaround.
How can I delete the icons of Lotus Notes from the desktop?
Notes 8 Standard does not provide the ability to modify generated Notes icons through a MSI transform file. You can however continue to do this for Notes 8 Basic.
This is considered an enhancement request as this functionality would require significant work effort from the Notes offering install team, Expeditor core install team, and Global Install Handler to implement this. This would be new functionality to the Expeditor line.
Workaround:
Here are the instructions for preventing Notes and Symphony icons in Notes 8.x using Win32 platform:
On Windows before installing 8.0.2:
Go to Control panel
Open the System control panel entry
Select advanced tab
Click the Environment Variables button to select the environment variables settings
Click the New button in the lower half of the panel under the section entitled “System Variables”
For Variable name enter: RCPIGNORELINKS
For Variable value enter: true
Click Ok until all panels are closed
Reboot the system to make sure the variable takes effect
After reboot open a command prompt and type the command “SET” to verify the RCPIGNORELINKS=true value appears in the environment. If it does not appear, please repeat the steps 1-9 again.
Perform the Notes install
This value must be set as a SYSTEM environment variable and can not be set in the command prompt. This is because during the install some of the install processes are run as SYSTEM and just setting the environment variable as the user will not take effect.
If the customer wants to install the Domino Admin and Designer clients without icons, these additional steps must be followed:
Obtain the InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes from your IBM service representative.
Install the InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes with default values.
Invoke the InstallShield Tuner program and browse to locate the configuration file that has a .itw file name extension. The .itw configuration file is located in the same directory with the Notes installation that you want to configure.
Click Create a new transform file.
In the Select an MSI file field for the Microsoft (R) Windows(R) Installer Package option, select the msi file (Lotus Notes 8.0.2.msi).
In the New project name and location field for the Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Installer Transform option, enter the custom transform name. Save the file to the same path on which the install kit resides.
Click create.
Select Shortcuts.
Right click each Shortcut icon that is not wanted on the desktop and select Delete.Repeat for Program Files if desired.
Make any other necessary modifications.
Click Save.
After creating the transform file, you apply the transform file to the installation process. The installation process then uses the values that you set in the transform file in place of default values.
More details on transforms can be found in the section “Using transform files for end-user installations” in the “IBM Lotus Domino Administrator Help” guide.
As far as the inability to prevent creation of icons through a transform or on initial install, this is considered a separate problem. An enhancement request was submitted and is currently being investigating in SPR: PFON7EFLZV
I too am in a similar situation - however I am using basic and cannot point a shortcut to look at a notes.ini on the U:…Are you modifying the shorcut argument to =U:\notesfolder\etc\notes.ini ?