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~Olga Asaboosiman
Apr 18, 2013, 4:29 PM
5 Posts

New directories regarding the user customization

  • Category: Install
  • Platform: All Platforms
  • Release: 9.0
  • Role: Developer
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Hello, all!

I am the Tech Lead for IBM's My Help global application and would like getting some help on the new Notes 9.0. Firstly, a brief on the application. My Help is a tool which helps the user on doing some tasks and some of them have some relationship with Notes. For example, for resetting the AT&T Client password, the user just need to have a Notes installation and an Internet connection (no need to be connected to IBM intranet). My Help authenticates the user through the Notes installation and goes to Bluepages for getting some information for requesting the password reset to AT&T server application.

Another example is for backing up data from the hard drive. The backup can be done per application so My Help needs to know which files of the application to backup (ID files, user configuration files, archive files and any other user related files) so that it can select all files for Notes to be backed up. This is also done when migrating data from one machine to new one.

Another one is to get some useful information about Notes like version, Notes ID, connectivity, mail settings, archives, trash size and much more.

Thus, our main concer now is about the migration feature of My Help which takes all notes user configuration files from the old machine to the new one. Our question are:

  1. Is the Data directory the same as on the previous version?
  2. Is that possible to get the new API for adapting our application to the new Notes 9.0?
  3. Where is the Notes.ini located in? Has its location changed?
  4. Where are the user customization located in?

We would appreciate any help on this so that we can keep My Help application fully integrated with Notes among with other applications.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give us.

Best regards,

Edmilton (Ed) Silva

~Emile Zennulitikle
Apr 22, 2013, 12:44 PM
14 Posts
Answers.
1.        Is the Data directory the same as on the previous version?

For users that upgrade from previous versions of Notes to Notes 9 the data directories will not change.  That is for single user installs the data directory will remain in the <Notes>\Data and for multi-user installs in <UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Lotus\Notes\Data

For new users of Notes 9 and for clean installs of Notes 9 the data directories have changed.   For single user installs the data directory is still under the <Notes>\Data directory but the multi-user installs directory will be in <UserProfile>\AppData\Local\IBM\Notes\Data directory.

To determine if an install is single user or multi-user the registry key at HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\Multiuser should be queried.  A "1" value indicates a multi-user install and a "0" indicates a single user install.  In the case of the single user install, the registry key HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\DataPath can be queried to determine the Notes data directory.  This key is blank on a multi-user install.  To determine the data directory for the current logged in user in a multi-user install, the registry key HKCU\Software\Lotus\Notes\NotesIniPath can be queried.  This value is the location of the user's notes.ini.  

2.        Is that possible to get the new API for adapting our application to the new Notes 9.0?

The API should be fully backward compatible.  Whatever Notes API calls you were making previously will still work.

3.        Where is the Notes.ini located in? Has its location changed?

Relatively speaking, no the location of the Notes.ini has not changed.  For single user install it is still in the <Notes> program files directory and for multi-user installs it is still in the user's data directory.  But as noted above the absolute locations for those directories may have changed.

4.        Where are the user customization located in?

User customization locations haven't changed either.  They are still stored in the Notes.ini, names.nsf, and the plugin_customization.ini files.




~Olga Asaboosiman
Apr 30, 2013, 6:27 PM
5 Posts
RE: New directories regarding the user customization

Hi, all!

Is there any way to identify the Notes 9.0 version? If so, is it the same way for Notes 9.0 previous versions? We need to have My Help application checking wich Notes version is installed on both Windows and Linux machines.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ed


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