I have just installed Notes 9 (not yet supported by IT). From the Discover tab I have clicked on the Notebook button. When selecting “A new notebook” with “notebook”.nsf in the box I click OK. A message comes up stating that notebook8.ntf template in user’s data directory cannot be found. I downloaded a copy of the file that I found on the Internet.
Question: where do I put the notebook8.ntf file?
Running Notes9 on Windows7 64-bit
Subject: Anywhere in the data directory, but somethin is wrong
You probably have an old Bookmark.nsf/Bookmark.ntf, because notes 9 should search for notebook9.ntf, whitch is installed together with the client, so something is bad with your installation.
Subject: I am looking at the code …
The code in play here is the createJournal procedure located in the Globals module of the JournalPrompt subform.
Here an excerpt of that code:
Dim template As New NotesDatabase( “”, “notebook9.ntf” ) 'no path specified so looking the the data directory
'see if the Journal6 template exists
If template.isopen = False Then
Msgbox getString(18), 16, getString(11)
Exit Sub
End If
Dim NewJDb As notesdatabase
Dim acl As NotesACL
Set NewJDb = template.CreateFromTemplate( “”, JFn, True )
Subject: Thats unfortunate …
… as the client would be able to create a database from any templaty in any location within the datadirectory. At least, if the code would use the RepID instead of the filename, it would work
Subject: perhaps this will work for you …
place notebook8.ntf into the data directory and rename it to notebook9.ntf
Subject: Thats not a real problem for me …
The code-snippet you have shown simply says, that this part of the Notes Client is not up to the rest of the product quality wise. Nobody expects templates to be bound to a specific location within the notes data directory for creating new databases … sorry, applications.
Subject: Lastly …
I had nothing to do with writing the code snippet. Just put it out there for your consumption. My experience is the Notes Client absolutely expects templates to be in the data directory and install, as far as I know, installs all templates to the data directory.
Your original question was Question: where do I put the notebook8.ntf file? I hope you got your answer
Subject: I think it’s notebook9.ntf you and looking for and …
I think it’s notebook9.ntf you are looking for and it belongs in the …\data directory as specified in the File (menu) - Preferences - Basic Notes Client Config —> Local Application Folder
Subject: Fixed?
This was reported during development of Notes 9 and was reported fixed in the shipping version on 9.0.0 I just tested with a clean install of 9 and its working properly (going through the same link you used). Is it possible you got a beta version of the code?