Discover Page

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hi Guys,

I’m writing to you regarding $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=1 parameter in notes.ini about 2 montsh since we started to deploy to our user Notes9.

$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=2 like it is now by default is not good for us because it almost does not give option to users to open Default Home Page, except going to Favourite bookmarks>Default Home Page.

So we added to Desktop setting policy we use for all users, in Custom Settings>Notes.ini: $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=1, Enforce.

It worked well till about 4-6 day ago. Now parameter does not change on user side to 1, and stays as default 2.

In the same time I’ve noticed that two new parameters appeared in notes.ini(I can tell that for sure, since earlier, when upgrading to Notes9 I’ve always looked via Find: DISCOVER in notes.ini, and there was only $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=1):

DISCOVER_UPDATE=26/06/2013 22:37:05

DISCOVER_COUNTER=0

Are these 2 lines related to $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE or with Discover Page? I could not find any info related to this.

Also please suggest how to set this parameter via policy so Discover page would not appear anymore. We do not need it, at least like it is now, by default instead of our corporate home page.

P.S. Initial info we used for this parameter was based on a topic in Notes9 Beta Forum. I could not find that topic now. a similar topic in this forum: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=0F15B0132FFFDBC785257B430048A7E8#822A1E022854D0E485257B43005FC7E3 http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=0F15B0132FFFDBC785257B430048A7E8#822A1E022854D0E485257B43005FC7E3, but that solution does not work now.

Thank you.

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Subject: Same issue

Hello,

same issue here. Dose anyone have a solution for this?

Regards

PAT

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Subject: Discover Page - Issue resolved from IBM

HI All,

I was having this issue and logged a call with IBM. (Service request no 54042,999,866)

They acknowledge the issue and say it will be resolved in 9.0.2 due Q1 2015 I think.

They sent me a document with the changes they would be making to the NAB template and when I put them in place it resolved it for me.

I’ll list the changes below :

Using the Designer, open the Policy Settings\Desktop Settings form in pubnames.ntf

On the Basics tab, change the formula for the $Pref$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE$HA field to:

@If(SocEdHome=“2” & SocEdHome$HA!=“1”;“”;tmpDISCOVER_HOMEPAGE$HA)

Change the input translation formula for the $Pref$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE field to:

tmpOut:=@If((SocEdHome=“0” | SocEdHome=“”) & tmpDISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=“5”;“5”;SocEdHome=“2” & SocEdHome$HA!=“1” ;“4”;“2”);

@If(tmpOut=“”;“2”;tmpOut)

Change the hide/when formula for each of the cells in the ‘Discover page:’ row to also hide if SocEdHome=”2”. Essentially, the string :“2” needs to be appended to each existing hide/when formula. PLEASE NOTE: Each cell in the row may have a slightly different hide/when formula. It is important to preserve each formula, and only append :”2” to the given formula.

Open the properties dialog for the $Pref$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE field, and change the field type to Dialog list. Ensure that the ‘Allow multiple values’ checkbox is deselected,

Save and close the form

replace the design of your names.nsf

Edit and resave any existing Desktop Policy documents.

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Subject: response to this will be posted shortly.

Xing Fu updated on 7/4/2013:
Hi Andrei,
May this could do some help to you:
In order to do policy settings for the Discover page, please do the following:
A. Make sure you have Admin access to a Domino Server running a build later than v854_06262012

B. Create Settings for a Policy by doing the following:

  1. Open Server’s Domino Directory:
  2. Select “Policies”/“Settings” in the Navigator
  3. Click “Add Settings…”.
  4. Include a unique name in the “Name:” field.
  5. Under “Discover Page Options”:
    a. Set “Discover page” field to “Set as Home Page”.
    b. Set “First Tab Shown” field to “Quick Links”
  6. Uncheck “Don’t set value” for both options a. and b. above.
  7. Save and Close.

C. Create Policy with above Settings by doing the following:

  1. Under “Policies” in the Navigator.
  2. Click “Add Policy”.
  3. In Basics tab:
    a. In the “Policy name:” field, Include a unique name.
    b. Leave “Policy type:” as “Explicit”.
    c. In the “Desktop:” field, open the “Select Keywords” dialog and choose the “Settings” doc just created above. Click OK to save and close.
  4. In Policy Assignment tab:
    a. Add a user who lives on the same Domino Server. Make sure to include hierarchical name i.e., First Last/Org
  5. Click Save and Close.

D. Prepare Notes Client:

  1. Switch user ID/Location to the user added above in step B.3.a.
  2. While holding down the keys Ctrl+Shift, open the local names.nsf. This will cause the hidden views to display.
  3. Open the “$Policies” view.
  4. Select all docs and delete. Ignore any error or warning messages.
  5. Close names.nsf.
  6. Close Notes.
  7. Open Notes Client notes.ini and set variable “$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE” value to 1.
  8. Save and close notes.ini.
  9. Launch Notes.

Before performing all tests, verify that the following Preference setting is enabled:

  1. Open “File”"Preferences…"
  2. Open “Windows and Themes” page.
  3. Check the option, “On restart, reopen any tabs that were open when I closed the client.”
  4. Click “OK” to save and close Preferences.

mc. fx, hi

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Subject: Guys, you may want to check this out

I found this APAR (searchable through the Internet) that explains how to resolve this.
LO75555: $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE KEEPS ON GETTING A VALUE OF 2 EVEN IF THE DESKTOP POLICY SETS IT TO 1 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO75555

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Subject: Proposed formula’s don’t lead to proper result

It seems there are 3 different possibilities for the Discover page:

  • The discover page is never shown and can also not be recalled from the help menu (5)

  • The discover page is shown instead of the homepage (2)

  • The discover page is shown the first time you start a new client. When you click the page away, it won’t show again, but can be recalled from the help menu (1)

The proposed settings will either force a 5 (never show) or a 2. It’s not possible in any way to select option 1 even though for many this is the preferred option.

I therefore propose the following changes:

Field tmpDISCOVER_HOMEPAGE. Change the choices to:

Do not show|5

Use as homepage|2

Show|1

Do the same for the $Pref$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE

The input translation formula for $Prefs$DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE should be:

tmpOut:=@If((SocEdHome=“0” | SocEdHome=“”) & tmpDISCOVER_HOMEPAGE!=“”;tmpDISCOVER_HOMEPAGE;SocEdHome=“2” & SocEdHome$HA!=“1” ;“4”;“2”);

@If(tmpOut=“”;“2”;tmpOut)

This way the administrators can properly choose what value they’d like for the homepage.

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Subject: Discover Page - no luck

Hi May,

Thank you for reply.

However your solutions did not helped. It keeps changing to $DISCOVER_HOMEPAGE=2 even in the way you said.

In the meanwhile it seems that this issue appeared since we upgraded the design of the Domino Directory from 8 to 9.

It comes to my mind that because of the new section “Discover Page Options” and it’s defaults it overrides Custom Settings. I’ve played also with various ticks in “Discover Page Options” section, but it is still not clear which one exactly respond for this parameter. Is not really obvious…

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot for your support so far!