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Nov 14, 2014, 2:13 PM
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What is this progress bar and what does it do?

  • Category: Notes Client
  • Platform: Windows
  • Release: 9.0.1
  • Role: Administrator
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  • Replies: 2

Hi all,

I am a Jr. Systems administrator at a company that uses lotus notes and this is my first time using Lotus Notes.  I learn a little more everyday but soon we will be moving on to another product.  One question that I have been asked multiple times is what is this little green bar and why is it always "on".  Nobody that I asked seemed to know exactly what it does so I thought I'd ask just so I'd know.  So to describe what I am talking about in the very bottom right hand corner of notes starting from the right side it shows the location name, Then the signature or encryption Icon, then the security icon, then there is a little yellow/orange bar that says "Progress Bar" if I hover over it, then to the very left of that is a small rectangular bar that looks like a progress bar but does not do anything when you hover over it.  It alternates from grey to green, like it is some type of status indicator.  I figure it is some type of status bar to show that notes is doing something in the background?  Our users freak out and I have gotten a couple of tickets stating something like "lotus notes is replicating not stop, please help", I'll show them the Replication and Sync page to show them it is not replicating non-stop but they are still worried that this small green bar is slowing down their computer or something else similar to that.  Does anybody know what this is?  Thank you.

 

Philip G Gonzales

Nov 14, 2014, 5:25 PM
17 Posts
What is this progress bar and what does it do?

Basically, the area of the Client you are describing is "Progress Button" and upon clicking on it, would see a "Progress Page" displayed on a tab within Notes.

A Notes Client operated in Standard mode utilizes java and Eclipse platform and this feature would be available there.

It was made available starting in Notes 8.x and is a contribution from the Expeditor platform, for further details in use of this feature, we'd advise review of our web resources on Expeditor toolkit and taking a look at the IProgressMonitor interface in our Eclipse documentation.

 

Some additional information that might be helpful:

- the "Progress Page" is helpful for Eclipse Developers to review progress of system/non-system Eclipse jobs and progress

- since there are infinite possibilities given the extensibility of the Client and jobs that could run by Eclipse plugins available/used within a given environment, unfortunately, there is no single resource to list them all

- since there is no direct means to restart a job listed there manually, we do not recommend canceling an active job at this Page since a restart would have to be realized in the code that started the job                       

- the Eclipse-specific jobs displayed on this Page should not be confused with Notes tasks that you might see within the Task Manager and are not directly used to review a Client's performance

- a job's progress on this Page is not indicative of a Client performing better or worse

- a job's progress is not stored in a local cache, but is collected via the IProgressMonitor interface in Eclipse and reported

Nov 14, 2014, 5:25 PM
17 Posts
What is this progress bar and what does it do?

Basically, the area of the Client you are describing is "Progress Button" and upon clicking on it, would see a "Progress Page" displayed on a tab within Notes.

A Notes Client operated in Standard mode utilizes java and Eclipse platform and this feature would be available there.

It was made available starting in Notes 8.x and is a contribution from the Expeditor platform, for further details in use of this feature, we'd advise review of our web resources on Expeditor toolkit and taking a look at the IProgressMonitor interface in our Eclipse documentation.

 

Some additional information that might be helpful:

- the "Progress Page" is helpful for Eclipse Developers to review progress of system/non-system Eclipse jobs and progress

- since there are infinite possibilities given the extensibility of the Client and jobs that could run by Eclipse plugins available/used within a given environment, unfortunately, there is no single resource to list them all

- since there is no direct means to restart a job listed there manually, we do not recommend canceling an active job at this Page since a restart would have to be realized in the code that started the job                       

- the Eclipse-specific jobs displayed on this Page should not be confused with Notes tasks that you might see within the Task Manager and are not directly used to review a Client's performance

- a job's progress on this Page is not indicative of a Client performing better or worse

- a job's progress is not stored in a local cache, but is collected via the IProgressMonitor interface in Eclipse and reported


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