New XTAF dictionary features for LN 8.5.x Multi-User installations !?

HCL Domino Domino Forum
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Hellodoes anybody have experience with Lotus-Notes Multi-User installations and the new XTAF dictionary features ?

The goal is to install LN 8.5.x FP3 incl. the new XTAF dictionary features in one step.

I don’t want to use the policy or widgets to deploy.

  • Therefore I put the dictionaries to my installation CD-ROM

…\dics\updateSite_de.zip

  • Then i change the installation manifest of the LN installation

…\deploy\install.xml

…snip…

…snap…

The result is the following:

  1. For the user (Administrator) which has installed the Multi-User installation of Notes the Dictionaries are available and it’s working.

  2. I eject the installation CD-ROM

  3. Login into windows as additional limited Windows user.

  4. For this additional user Notes is hanging during startup …

  5. I checked the logs which indicates me that notes want to install the dictionary again … for the new user. But the source (CD-ROM) is not inserted)

  6. I insert the CD-ROM and start notes again… viola notes comes up and the spellchecker are also available for this user.

The magic question is:

What’s going wrong here ?

How can I force the installation to install all additionally dictionaries on the same way as the default English dictionaries ?

(user feature context , global feature context )

Neither --shared=“true”-- nor — action=“install”— or — mergeaction=“add” changes the context.

Please help

best regards

Dominik

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Subject: I assume the dics were installed in user context (…\workspace\applications) rather than in machine context (progdir\framework..)

I assume that the dics are installed on a user basis.If you can find them in the users data directory …\workspace\application.… the dictionaries were installed on a user basis.

You should integrate the XTAF dictionaries into the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 installkit to let them install into a machine context and you should not install them afterwards (they would be installed in user context).

Because the first version of XTAF_dictionaries were not properly signed, you may get an install error if they are installed as part of the Lotus Notes install kit. Ensure that you are using the latest (and properly signed) XTAF dictionaries dated from May/2010.

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Subject: you’re right… but how to change ?

Hi,yes, you’re right. Indeed the XTAF dictionaries were installed in the user context.

But how can I force it to install in machine context in detail?

Should the jar-files of each dictionary merge into the updateSite.zip of the Notes installation package itself ?

In the past I separate the updateSite.zip (Notes 8.5.1) and the updateSite_xx.zip (dirctionaries) to different folders on the CD-ROM.

Only the “…\deploy\install.xml” (Notes 8.5.1) points to the dictionary updateSites_xx.zip

(I use the new right signed XTAF dictionaries)

best regards

Dominik

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Subject: The easiest way: Use a localized (e.g. German) Lotus Notes client

because all XTAF dictionaries are already part of the install kit of a localized Notes client.You may have to remove UserInterface=de from the notes.ini in the Allusers directory

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Subject: … and the not easiest way ?

Hi,thanks for answer… and the not easiest way ?

Because our company is an international one and our software is always in English.

So I have to rollout the English software with multiple XTAF spellchecker/ dictionaries.

regards