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Journeys Debugging Open Liberty and MVC 
By Jesse Gallagher | 12/1/21 12:34 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
I mentioned in my last post that I've been tinkering with a modern structure for OpenNTF's web site as a side project. In that, I talked about how I've been going with Jakarta MVC for the front end, but ran into an odd problem with the latest versions in Open Liberty, and that was the impetus to tinkering with ERB.
Well, I decided to go back and take a swing at trying to make JSP work in this case, since it's (still) a good engine for this purpose, and it could be a fun experiment. I was indeed able to do it, and I think the path I took is worth chronicling here.
Highlights as start page hides the Community overview
By Christoph Stoettner | 11/19/21 1:47 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Connections 7 creates the Community Highlights page automatically and sets it as the start page for new communities.
That’s configured in the highway service, which is available for administrative users on https://your_connections_url/connections/config/highway.main.gatekeeper.tiles
So far so good, the community menu looks way cleaner, until today I haven’t thought about this.
HCL Connections switch to allowlists
By Christoph Stoettner | 11/19/21 1:44 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
How to add additional allowlist rules to HCL Connections
A long time ago, I wrote about the new implementation of allowlists in HCL Connections and that the documentation on customization and adding new rules was an absolute miracle for me.
I haven’t implemented allowlists at any customer at the moment, because the first tries in 2018 were horrible. Even formats from the builtin editors got deleted during the save procedure. During test deployments I often start with enabled allowlists, but later I always switch back to blocklists.
For a support ticket I had to check some settings today, and so I tried with enabled allowlist and blocklist. This let me remember the old blog post and I wanted to check if custom rules can be added now.
Replace curl shipped with Windows with a recent version not build by Microsoft
By Daniel Nashed | 11/19/21 1:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
While working on a OpenSSL server side project, I used curl.exe to test client cert authentication.
It turned out that curl.exe shipped with Windows 11 is a quite old version -- last security patched end of 2019.
The version is the exact same version I also see on Windows 10 (see details below).
If you are using Curl on Windows, I would strongly recommend to replace Curl shipped with Windows, with a current Curl version provided by the Curl project directly!
Disabling persistent chat in Sametime 11.x
By Rainer Brandl | 11/17/21 6:55 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In one customer situation I had the request to disable the new ( and great ) functionality of the persistant chat.Well, you have to install the MongoDB during the installation of the Sametime Community Server but can disable the need of the MongoDB afterwards by going through the following steps
OpenNTF 20th Anniversary Celebration - Dec 14
By OpenNTF | 11/16/21 12:01 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse
In December of 2001, Nathan Freeman and Bruce Elgort came together to create an open source community for Lotus Notes. 20 years later we are still serving the open source community around the HCL Digital Solutions portfolio of products.
Technical Documentation? Here you go!
By Oliver Busse | 11/16/21 6:05 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
I admit: I love to write technical documentations. It's an unusual habit of a developer to do so, but somehow I adore having something to look at after a while and still be able to understand what's going on.
In the past I used several tools for that. What I can say is that word processors like MS Word are NOT suitable to write a decent documentation for software. Just do not use them.
I recently discovered MkDocs as the tool of my choice. This allows you to create neat online documentation as well as printable PDFs using the right plugins.
HCL Connections - how customize user invite theme
By Matteo Bisi | 11/16/21 6:02 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
HCL Connections is a customizable product, using the traditional way with " <CNX-CUSTOMIZATION-DIR> " or using customizer.
During this days we are working on an upgrade to version 7 where the whole cnx theme it was supposed to be customized in red even the Invite guest
After some test without the result , because the HCL documentation was not updated (invite application is NOT mentioned even reading version 7.0 doc) we have found the correct path in a css comment ....
HCL Traveler has ended supporting HTTP (without SSL)
By Ales Lichtenberg | 11/16/21 6:01 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
With today’s update (November 15) HCL Verse for Android, HCL Traveler Companion for iOS and HCL ToDo for iOS has ended HTTP configuration support and only HTTPs are no longer supported.
This applies from these versions:
HCL Verse pro Android (12.0.5)
HCL Companion pro iOS (12.0.2)
HCL To Do pro iOS (12.0.2)
Domino One Touch install on Ubuntu and Debian
By Daniel Nashed | 11/8/21 2:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
I am still not a big fan of Domino on Ubuntu or Debian. And it still makes a lot of sense to stay on platforms that are close to the two fully supported platforms RHEL and SLES!!!
But specially for me testing software and also supporting my start scripts, this installer makes a lot of sense to support those platforms.
For Ubuntu and Debian I needed the work-around to change the shell from dash to bash during install.
Domino install challenges on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
By Daniel Nashed | 11/8/21 2:11 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
There has not been any testing on my side for the start script on Ubuntu so far.
But now that Ubuntu meets the basic requirements for Domino support, I took a quick look.
There has been a live console issue, which I fixed in 3.6.1 today (already in the develop branch of the Domino Docker Community project).
But it turned out that also the Domino install script has an issue on Ubuntu, because the default shell is dash instead of bash.
Here are the technical details and a workaround.
Domino 12.0.1 – new compact option
By Ulrich Krause | 11/8/21 2:09 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Domino 12.0.1 includes an interesting enhancement to the compact task options. Together with the options -c and -X, -RESTARTensures that a compact that terminates because the limit set with -X is exceeded continues at exactly the same point during the next run. This ensures that even large files are compressed, which at the moment would never be fully compressed due to exceeding the time limit.
Writing A Custom ViewEngine For Jakarta MVC
By Jesse Gallagher | 11/2/21 6:15 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
One of the very-long-term side projects I have going on is a rewrite of OpenNTF's site. While the one we have has served us well, we have a lot of ideas about how we want to present projects differently and similar changes to make, so this is as good a time as any to go whole-hog.
Domino-docker explained – Part 5 : Adding add-ons on top of your Domino image
By Martijn de Jong | 11/2/21 2:34 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In the previous parts, I explained how to create a Domino image and deploy it. But what if you want to add fix packs to your Domino image? Or Traveler, Volt or Verse? The scripts of the domino-docker project make this super simple. In this part, I’ll show you how to do this.