Workplace Forms & Workflow-Xpress Demo Site at last!

Well here it is at last. I can't say that it is finished as it seems the more we do the more ideas we come up with to make it better.

Here is a link to the ISW Workplace Forms Demo site. We have a few forms on show however the best area is the Form Gateway. The concept is that organisations can have a Forms Gateway where external (and internal I guess) users can gain access to forms they are allowed to complete. They can fill them in and submit them and they start a Workflow process using Workflow-Xpress. We are pretty happy with the progress however it is really just a proof of concept. The possibilities are great though and it is great to see the products coming together in the exact way we thought they would when we started with Workplace Forms last year.

We have many ideas of what else we can do and essentially I can see this turning into a product offering for organisations that are looking at Workplace Forms and are interested in a Forms Gateway. Feel free to make suggestions/ask questions etc. 

DBLookup Tips

One of my colleagues pointed me to this DeveloperWorks article on performance tips for DBLookup. Some excellent tips here and I am sure a few of us have made some of these mistakes in the past.

I know I will be checking some of our larger Notes applications for some of these tips. 

What a wonderful feeling!

Just wanted to say how fantastic it is to be engaged to Jayne. We are progressing our plans, date is set, location is set, invitation list is getting their, engagement party set (even though numbers are getting out of control), Jayne is almost moved in, and the more time I spend with Jayne planning everything the more positive I am that we are going to have a wonderful life. Life doesn't get much better than this.


Double Right Click in Notes 8

When I first installed Notes 8 Beta I almost freaked when I realised Double Right Click to close a document/database/view etc was not supported. I searched preferences trying to figure out how to turn it back on. After a while I looked at the Notes 8 Beta discussion forum and found that it wasn't supported but Mary Beth Raven had committed to bringing it back.

But then why wait!!! Nathan Freeman has posted on how to bring it back now! That is what I call a righteous hack! Well done Nathan. 

Notes 8 beta is now available

While I am sure many have already realised the Notes 8 beta is now available.

http://www.ibm.com/lotus/getnd8now

While there seemed to be some download problems early on due to the rush it seems to be fairly speedy now. I am off to install the beta now:)