Mail File Owner - It just keeps getting worse!

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Okay, so I posted on this topic a few months ago…http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/ShowMyTopicsAllFlatweb/1f2ce88567ab52a985256e1d007c4762?OpenDocument

Now, with 6.5.1, it’s gotten worse! Now they’ve added an input validation so you cannot select a mail-in DB name as the mail file owner! HELLO. EARTH TO LOTUS! I’m betting that 99 out of 100 customer service departments in the world who uses a mail-in db will want the DB name displayed as Principal (i.e. “From”)instead of an individual person’s.

Now, granted it was easy enough to take the code out of the template, but what is the point of this? Will someone from IBM/Lotus/Iris/Mars please reply?

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Subject: Here’s a simple workaround.

Create your mail file with a R5 mail template, change the Mail File Owner field, then replace design to a Notes 6 mail template.

Make sure you set all the preferences in the calendar profile before migrating to the 6 template, because it won’t allow any changes with the flat name.

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Subject: Here’s a simple workaround - thanks

Hi Don - just to say thanks for your work around. I had created a mail-in database and made the user the owner. Originally he had designer access but even by giving him manager access it wouldn’t work.The database was v6. I replaced the design with a v5 one - made sure he still had access and replaced it again with v6 template. He restarted notes and was able to use it.Cheers, Teresa

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Subject: Mail File Owner - It just keeps getting worse!

We have the same issue here. The owner of the mail-in database should be able to be the title of the mail-in database. Otherwise this defeats the purpose we are using them for.

We are looking forward to a reply from IBM/Lotus on this as well.

Thanks

Tracy

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Subject: Mail File Owner - It just keeps getting worse!

Hi Kurt,

I agree with you entirely on this matter as we have a lot of mailin DB’s and now I am unable to change this mail file belongs to field to a mailin DB name.

Can you please instruct me on how to modify the code in the template in order to get around this problem as I am not a developer and don’t understand much of the coding.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Subject: RE: Mail File Owner - It just keeps getting worse!

Hi Kavish,

FYI, I’m not a developer, either! :slight_smile:

But here is what I did…I recommend testing this on a mail file first before changing the template.

Open the DB/Template in Designer and go to the Forms. Find the (CalendarProfile) form.

Find the Owner field on the form, click on it, then in the Object pane (mid-lower left of screen) locate the Input Validation code and click on it. You should see this code:

xxNO_OWNER:=“No owner has been specified for this mail file”;

xxNO_HIER := "The owner’s name must be entered in hierarchical format, because the current user’s ID is hierarchical (current ID is " + @Name([Abbreviate]; @UserName) + “).”;

@If(Owner = “” ;@Failure(xxNO_OWNER);

@Contains(@LowerCase(@UserName); “cn”) & !@Contains(@LowerCase(owner); “cn”); @Failure(xxNO_HIER);

@Success)

Remove the three lines directly above the “@Sucess)”, and save the code.

You can also remove the section of code (4 lines total) that starts with "xxNO_HIER := " but it doesn’t hurt to leave that in.

Test it, and if you are satisfied that it works, do the exact same thing for either the Mail6.NTF and/or Mail6EX.NTF template(s). Be sure to refresh design on your mail-in DBs for the change to show up.

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Subject: RE: Mail File Owner - It just keeps getting worse!

Hi Kurt,

The 3 lines you’ve mentioned in your post (the ones that start with @Name…, @If… and @Contains…) aren’t complete lines. The @Name line is a continuation of the “xxNOHEIR:=…” statement. Just deleting these three lines produces an error message when you save the validation script.

I deleted the whole validation script, and that seemed to work okay. I’m not gonna change my template, though, just the mail-in databases.

HTH