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Multi-language version of AweSync is launched!

Since AweSync first production release 2.0.0.0 in March 2010 we have had more than 6000 customers who purchased the product from 67 countries. As the result, in the latest version 4.5.0. multi-language support has been added. Now AweSync is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Localization of installation package to other languages is planned to be done in our future releases.

AweSync is a personal tool for those who wish to sync their calendar, tasks and contacts between Lotus Notes and Google. The solution works seamlessly, even with older Notes versions starting from R6.5, and it doesn’t require deployment of server-side solutions, so it’s ideal as both a personal tool and a business solution. You can see more details on the product website - http://www.awesync.com.


AweSync is launched in production!

We’re glad to announce the first production release of new software product designed to synchronize Lotus Notes and Google calendars - http://www.awesync.com.

With a broaden range of calendar synchronization products available – how come we decided to create another one? The answer is simple – there are not so much currently available, which main goal is to conveniently synchronize Google and Lotus Notes calendars.


Creating a Lotus Notes View with NotesView and AJAX

When we had to develop Lotus Views for the Web interfaces (a lot of times, of course), we needed something AJAXy. AJAX views for Domino were available for quite a while in Web Access mail template, but the code is practically not re-usable there. So, during our search efforts, we came across the brilliant project NotesView2 at openntf.org. You can see the demo and download the database here (.zip, 3Mb).

To fill in some missing features in this project, we've have added the following options to the NotesView2 template:


How to Fix a Multiline Comment in a Lotus Notes Application

If you are working on a web project and need to get a comment form with a multiline text field, you use the following field options:

Lotus web form field properties

and you might use the following Translation:

@Implode(@ThisValue;@NewLine)

The field looks like this:

Lotus web form field looks

When a user types in a comment without inserting a line break, you can easily get the field value after the document is submitted with

document.getElementsByName("Comment")[0].value

because, naturally, the field is shown in the HTML:


Filtering in Views Using LotusScript Code Made Easier

Filtering documents within a view in LotusScript straightforwardly can require quite a lot lines of code with various functions. However, by simple modular programming, you can use less functions in the code, making code more friendly and readable, thus reducing the chances to make a mistake, and increasing re-usability.

Here's the sample of straightforward code:

dim view as NotesView
set view = db.GetView("myView")
Dim doc As NotesDocument
call view.Refresh()
dim name as string
dim evaluation
evaluation = evaluate("@username")
name = evaluation(0)
Set doc = view .GetFirstDocument()
Do While Not doc Is Nothing    
        if doc.user(0) = name then
                ' some operations
        end if
        Set doc = view .GetNextDocument(doc)
loop


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