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Source Control in Domino Designer 8.5.3- 10 October 2012 - (0) Comments

Thomas Hampel
 10 October 2012

Trying to set up a new machine with Domino Designer 8.5.3 and Source Control (SVN) based on this Blog post from Niklas Heidloff unfortunately was not working as expected.
It seems like the
Eclipse Update site for GEF which was refernced in his blog post was not available any longer.

> CWPPR0031: The requested provisioning operation(s) completed with partial success.

> Error parsing site stream. [The XML stream is not a valid default "site.xml" file. The root tag is not site.]


Image:Source Control in Domino Designer 8.5.3

A quick search brought me to the an update site hosting the
older versions recommended, adding it to the Application Locations fixed this small problem.
Image:Source Control in Domino Designer 8.5.3

Although this is one way to make it work, the most simple way is to make use of a ready-built Update Site from OpenNTF, see this project
Basically you need to download & unzip this file to your loal disk, and point the application installer to this update site.

Happy coding!

Exporting Notes Documents- 2 October 2012 - (1) Comments

Thomas Hampel
 2 October 2012

A customer wanted to have all attachments of some selected Notes document exported to the file system and also wanted to keep an option for developers to access the metadata of the original Notes document.
Nothing easier than that, so I wrote this small script to get the job done.


First the entire document is exported into DXL, then all attachments are detached to the file system. Both parts are not rocket science, but some people might want to reuse the code.
To avoid name conflicts while detaching files a folder is created for each Notes document so all attachments of this Notes document will be stored in this subfolder.


Option
Public
Option
Declare
Dim
gCounter&
Sub
Initialize
     
Dim s As New NotesSession
     
Dim coll As NotesDocumentCollection
     
Dim BasePath$

      BasePath$ =
InputBox ("Export data to path...: ", "Export", "C:\")
     
     
'# add backslash at the end
     
If right (BasePath$,1) <> "\" Then BasePath$ = BasePath$ & "\"
     
     
Print "Using BasePath : " & BasePath$
     
     
Set coll = s.currentdatabase.Unprocesseddocuments
     
If coll Is Nothing Then
             
MessageBox "No documents selected"
     
Else
             
Print "Processing " & coll.count & " documents..."
             
Call ExportToDXL (coll, BasePath$)
             
Call ExportToFile (coll, BasePath$)
             
MessageBox "Export completed."
     
End If        
End
Sub

Function
ExportToDXL (Coll As NotesDocumentCollection, BasePath As String)
     
Dim session As New NotesSession
     
Dim stream As NotesStream
     
Dim DXLfilename$
     
Dim doc As NotesDocument
     
Dim tdoc As NotesDocument
     
Dim exporter As NotesDXLExporter
     
     
If coll Is Nothing Then Exit function
     
Set doc = coll.getfirstdocument
     
While Not doc Is Nothing
             
Set tdoc = coll.getNextDocument (doc)
             
'# Open xml file named after current database
             
Set stream = session.CreateStream
              DXLfilename$ = BasePath$ & doc.universalid &
".dxl"
             
If Not stream.Open(DXLfilename$) Then
                     
MessageBox "Cannot open " & DXLfilename$,, "Error"
                     
Exit Function
             
End If
             
             
'# kick off the exporter process
             
Set exporter = session.CreateDXLExporter
             
Call exporter.SetInput(doc)
             
Call exporter.SetOutput(stream)
             
Call exporter.Process
             
             
Set doc = tdoc
     
Wend
End
Function

Function
ExportToFile (coll As NotesDocumentCollection, BasePath As String)
        On Error GoTo ErrH
        Dim doc As NotesDocument
        Dim tdoc As NotesDocument
        Dim rtitem As variant
        Dim targetpath$, fname$
        Dim FieldList(0) As String
        Dim oba As Variant
       
        '# define which fields to scan for attachments
        FieldList (0) = "Body"
       
        If coll Is Nothing Then Exit Function
       
        Set doc = coll.getfirstdocument
        While Not doc Is Nothing
                Set tdoc = coll.getNextDocument (doc)
                If doc.Hasembedded Then
                        targetpath$ = BasePath$ & doc.universalid & "\"
                       
                        If Dir$ (BasePath$ & doc.universalid, 16) = "" Then MkDir targetpath$
                       
                        '# loop list of fields
                        ForAll f In FieldList
                                 Set rtitem = doc.GetFirstItem(f)
                                 If Not rtitem Is Nothing Then
                                        If (rtitem.Type = RICHTEXT ) Then
                                                '# make sure the field contains some objects and detach
                                                If IsArray(rtitem.embeddedObjects) Then
                                                        ForAll o In rtitem.EmbeddedObjects
                                                                If ( o.Type = EMBED_ATTACHMENT ) Then
                                                                        Fname$=o.Name
                                                                        If FileExists (fname$) Then fname$ = CStr(gCounter&) & Fname$
                                                                        Call o.ExtractFile(targetPath$ & Fname$)
                                                                        gCounter& = gCounter& + 1
                                                                End If
                                                        End ForAll
                                                End If

                                        End If
                                End If
                        End ForAll
                End If
                Set doc = tdoc
        Wend
continue:
        Exit Function
       
errH:
        Stop
        Print "Error " & Err() & " in line " & Erl() & " - " & Error
        Resume continue
End Function
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