I just learned today (after a year and a 1/2 on R6!) that there is a new feature called “Recompile All LotusScript”. I was tempted to use it today because I’ve experienced a number of unexplanable scheduled agent failures over the last few months, but then a little voice in my head said, “Robert, you’d better check LDD…or you could be soooorrry!”.
Surprisingly enough, I actually took my own advice and have yet to find any glowing reviews regarding this new feature. Would some of you mind sounding off and providing me a confirmation (…or warning) regarding this new feature? Has anyone found it to be useful? Or is it more hassle than its worth?
I’m on Notes R6.5.2, but we have a mixed client environment with some users on R5 and R6.0. Thanks, in advance, for the advice.
Subject: RE: To Recompile All LotusScript…or to Not? …ah!..that is the Question!
I have noticed that some LotusScript agents will not work on R5 clients, if they are saved/compiled with a R6 client (They appear to be totally empty, no Initialize, no Terminate event is executed on R5 clients). So, in a mixed R5/R6 client environment, I would recommend to compile all LotusScript agents always with a R5 client.
Subject: RE: To Recompile All LotusScript…or to Not? …ah!..that is the Question!
Plus it isn’t real safe to be using r5, to look at r6 apps.
One thing that this destroys, is the capability of views keeping users changes. Everytime I have to compile, and users have their columns sorted/hidden/shifted the way they would like, it gets set back to defaults when I update one program unrelated to this.