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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 11: Pass-thru HTML and Generate HTML for all fields

Welcome to blog series part 11 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA. In this entry I’m going to talk about “Pass-thru HTML and Generate HTML for all fields”. A neat aspect of forms development in Notes was the ability to treat text on a form as pass-thru HTML.  This meant that you could add HTML and inline JavaScript directly onto your forms and mark it as pass-thru so that the Domino server

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 10: Refresh fields on keyword change

Welcome to blog series part 10 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this entry it’s all about “Refresh fields on keyword change”. Ya, let’s take a moment to just love this one.  Have you ever used it in your Notes apps?  Refresh fields on keyword change was a bit of an odd beast, no?  The purpose of this operation was to enable field options (or values) to be recalculated based on

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 9: Response Documents

Welcome to blog series part 9 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA..  In this entry I’m going to talk about how DOCOVA handles response or child documents. First let me take a second to praise response documents in IBM Notes.  You know, they seem like such a simple thing but I think it’s surprising how many systems don’t include this type of construct out of the box.  With their ability to inherit

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12 Apps in 18 Days – A Notes Migration Project

Jamesway Incubator, located in Cambridge Ontario, manufactures and sells incubators worldwide.   For years they have used IBM Notes and Domino collaboration products to automate business processes and share information with a staff located all over the world.  However, like many in the Notes and Domino community, a corporate decision was recently made to switch to Microsoft based technologies. Replacing Notes based email is relatively easy, since the migration tools and processes are well defined. 

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 8: Profile Docs

Welcome to blog series part 8 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this entry I’m going to go over profile documents. In Notes apps, profile docs were convenient for, and typically used for, holding application settings type information.  The information on profile docs was easily gotten with @formula commands like @GetProfileField. The question is: Does DOCOVA support profile documents? Yes.  If a Notes application used profile documents then they will be

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 7: XPages

Welcome to blog series part 7 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this entry I’m going to discuss XPages. So, the simple question is: Does DOCOVA migrate and support XPages? Annnnd, the answer is: No. For DOCOVA’s development we pretty much stayed away from XPages for two reasons.  First, although we might have been able to leverage it on the Domino side, it wasn’t a good fit for the SQL edition

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 6: Security

Welcome to blog series part 6 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this entry I’m going to talk about three things. Security, security and security. We thought the security in Notes/Domino was pretty good.  It was clear, easy to manage and provided for a lot of variable implementation.  DOCOVA’s enhanced security capabilities were made so that it is flexible enough to support the Notes/Domino approach to security. DOCOVA application access control

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 5: File attachments

Welcome to blog series part 5 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this entry I’m going to talk about how file attachments are migrated over to DOCOVA. When it comes to the importing of data from a Notes application to a DOCOVA application, the DOCOVA App Importer initially scans and detects all file attachments in the source nsf and keeps track of what form design elements contain an attachment. As the

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Migrate Notes to DOCOVA Blog Series Part 4: Richtext and Doclinks

Welcome to blog series part 4 of 17 on migrating Notes apps to DOCOVA.  In this blog entry I’ll talk about richtext and how it gets migrated over. So, first off, there is  no such thing as a “richtext” field in a browser as compared to what a richtext field is in a Notes client.  If you are running DOCOVA on a Domino platform rather than one of the other SQL database platforms, DOCOVA

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