If so shut down designer, restart your notes client and try it again.

It's a well known bug that there is no fix for.

Hey Paul.  Yes, I tried shutting down Designer and the Client many times but same issue.  Is there a certian Domino policy access that is required to do this?  Access rights is really restricted here at Bank of America.

I've no idea.  I would just suggest to make sure that you're running a version of the Ext. Library that's compatible with 8.5.3.  The more recent ones are for 9.0x I believe.

Just a thought.

Dave

you get when the site.xml can not be "read".

The url is https and that might be the problem.  can you access over straight http?

i get when in Designer I perform a File..Application..Install and then add "Remote Location".

The reason for https instead of http is because we have SSL configure on the server.

I got the extension library from here and i downloaded the 8.5.3 version from Apr 4th 2013(the newest one).  As you can see there are many releases of it for 8.5.3 so i am really not sure what the correct version i should be using.  Do you think i should use the most recent one as David suggested?

http://extlib.openntf.org/#main.nsf/project.xsp?r=project/XPages%20Extension%20Library/releases/9F11DD671408281386257D2600544A96&_suid=140866500768607065795735725391

That looks like the correct release.  I would also suggest you try pure http.  See if that makes s difference.  We have SSL on our server but I think I just use http for the updateSite stuff... 

That did not work either.

I did notice however that my updatesite.nsf is missing 1 of the plugins from the "Import Local Update Site" that i performed to set up the DB in the first place.  Could this have something to do with it?

I honestly don't know.  I've never had a problem with the UpdateSite stuff.  I always delete everything so it's clean.  Import the plugin and then do Application - Install in designer.  Always seems to work.

You might want to take this one to StackOverFlow - lot of plugin experts over there.  that's all I can think of at the moment.