Going up the wall here… I have a server db set to launch a designated frameset. It has worked fine for years. It still works fine on my workstation. But now when I open the db on a laptop I am preparing for a road trip, it just opens the default view and navigator.
I checked all the db props, and everything is set correctly. I tried deleting the frameset and pages that appear in the frames and then restoring them. I made sure the frames were pointing to the right design elements. I refreshed the design. I tried changing the launch setting and then changing it back. I deleted bookmarks.nsf and cache.ndk and rebooting. What else can I do??
The Notes ID on the travel laptop is different from my own, but that shouldn’t affect the launch behavior since access is not an issue with a frameset or page. I am logging in as myself on the server (same nw login as my workstation).
TIA
Mark
Subject: Database not launching designated frameset
You may have already solved this, but if not, can I ask whether you are opening the database from a bookmark or the workspace icon?
I had a similar problem when I found that bookmarks can be a bit unreliable. See what happens when you open it from the workspace.
Helen.
Subject: RE: Database not launching designated frameset
Helen,
Thanks for responding. I have not solved it yet. I have opened the db from a bookmark, from the workspace icon, and from scratch. I have deleted the bookmark (and workspace icon) more than once and re-set it. I have opened a different replica of the db on a different server. Same behavior. I am really hoping it is something stupid that I just haven’t realized yet, and it will suddenly hit me, hopefully today.
Another thing I forgot to mention yesterday: the second laptop that is going on the road is acting the same as the first laptop.
Mark
Subject: RE: Database not launching designated frameset
Also, I should add that when I switch to the other ID on my own workstation, the behavior is the same as on the laptop. When I switch back to my own ID, it opens correctly with the frameset again. So now it definitely seems like everything is set up correctly and it’s some kind of access issue.
I thought for sure I’d solved it when I realized the IDs in question did not have access to two other db’s that are integrated, but even after granting the proper ACL access and deleting cache.ndk, nothing changed. I cannot figure out what other access issue there might be; I’ve gone over the form field by field.
Subject: SOLVED re: Database not launching designated frameset
I went back to the frameset, thinking that it HAD to be some sort of access issue. And that’s what it turned out to be, although not of the type I was looking for. I knew there was no issue with the pages in two of the frames, and I never even looked at the third frame, which just contained the default view for (what I thought was) everyone.
Since I had exhausted all other possibilities, I finally took a closer look at that frame’s properties and was suprised to see that the view it contained was computed, since I had no recollection of writing a formula for it. When I clicked on the “@” button to see the formula, I found my answer. For the ID in question, it was going to a different view than everyone else. The view was specified by alias, and when I checked on it, there was no such alias for any view. When I changed it to a valid alias name, it worked perfectly.
So it was not that the ID in question was not allowed access to a certain design element; it was that I given a certain design element the wrong name, so it could not be accessed.
Lesson learned: check ALL elements, rather than skipping over the one(s) you “know” are correct.
Subject: Database not launching designated frameset
Not sure if I understand your problem correctly.
Were talking about the Notes client here, and you have a local replica on that notebook? Still sounds like a access issue to me, then.
Subject: RE: Database not launching designated frameset
No, sorry - the laptops are accessing the same replica (on the same server) as my workstation. There are no local replicas involved…
Subject: RE: Database not launching designated frameset
O.K., but I’m still confused about this paragraph:
“The Notes ID on the travel laptop is different from my own, but that shouldn’t affect the launch behavior since access is not an issue with a frameset or page. I am logging in as myself on the server (same nw login as my workstation).”
Same login, different ID? Maybe I’m just a little slow today.
I remember having similar problems occasionally, when I was working on an application, that used a document (referenced by it’s notes url). Reading your postings, it appears, that there is nothing like that in your start-up frameset?
Subject: RE: Database not launching designated frameset
Sorry for not being clear enough… When I log in to the laptop after it boots up on Microsoft XP, I am using the same user name and password that I use to log into XP on my workstation.
But when I log into Lotus Notes on the laptop, the Notes ID file on the hard drive is not my own ID; it’s the ID of the person who will be using it when the laptop gets shipped out. So I put in the pw for that ID, which I know since I registered the “user” (it’s a generic user, not a specific person).
You can’t hide a frameset or page based on a user name or role or group, so the difference in ID files can’t account for the difference in launch behavior. (I can hide certain elements on the page, and I do, but that can’t hide the entire page or render it unavailable.)
And no, my frameset does not have a specific document in any frame. It’s three frames - two have pages in them, and the third one is the view.
Thank you for sticking with me thus far - I am leaving for the day now but will continue troubleshooting tomorrow…
Mark