Administration
There are several notes.ini variables that can be set to change the behavior of the Advanced Document Properties plugin:
| notes.ini variable | default | possible values | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AdvProp_MenuVisible | 1 | 0, 1 | If this value is 1 (default) the Advanced Properties menu will be visible. Set this to 0 to hide the entire menu and all submenus. |
| AdvProp_MenuVisibleInMailView | 1 | 0,1 | If this value is 1 (default) the Advanced Properties menu will be visible in the right-click menu in folders and views in the mail database. Set this to 0 to hide the entire menu and all submenus in this situation. This does not affect the top-level menus, and it only affects right-click behavior in mail views. |
| AdvProp_ProfileMenuVisible | 1 | 0, 1 | If this value is 1 (default) the Profile Documents menu will be visible. Set this to 0 to hide the Profile Documents menu. |
| AdvProp_ProfileShowAll | 0 | 0, 1 | If this value is 0 (default) only public profile documents and profile documents with the current user's name as a key will be available for deleting or viewing. Set this to 1 to list all profile documents, including documents that are assigned to other users. |
| AdvProp_CompareLaterMenuVisible | 1 | 0, 1 | If this value is 1 (default) the Compare Later and Compare With 'Compare Later' menus will be visible. Set this to 0 to hide these menus. |
Troubleshooting
How do I know if this plugin is installed?
Choose the top-level menu item Help - About HCL Notes, and from the help dialog click the "Installation Details" button. From here, you can go to the "Plug-ins" tab. If the plugin is installed, it should be listed as "panagenda Document Properties". This is also the easiest way to determine which version of the plugin you have.
Where can I get support?
Support for this plugin is handled by HCL support, and is limited to the versions of the plugin that come pre-installed with Notes.
Can I install this plugin on older Notes clients?
This plugin comes pre-installed starting with the HCL Notes 12.0.1 standard client.
You can install it on older clients by downloading it from here. <<TBD: link>> Please note that no support is offered for these older Notes versions nor for manually installed plugin versions on newer Notes clients that do not match the pre-installed version.
While it has been tested on Notes clients all the way back to 8.5, there is no guarantee that it will work.
Can I submit feature requests?
If you have ideas or feature requests, you can submit them to the HCL Notes Ideas Portal or tweet us @panagenda.
You might also want to have a look at the beefier version of this plugin, the Document Inspector, which might have some of the things you want already. It allows editing and deleting fields, and more! <<TBD: more features, link>>
Sometimes when I right-click a document in a view, the Advanced Properties dialog doesn't appear.
This can happen if the view doesn't have focus. Every once in a while, the Notes client will keep focus on something else – like the sidebar, or a navigator, or a toolbar – and the Advanced menu will be hidden. Often you can fix this by switching to a different tab and switching back, or selecting a different document and then trying again.
If the Advanced Properties menu doesn't appear for ANY view, make sure the AdvProp_MenuVisible=0 setting hasn't been set in notes.ini, and also make sure the plugin is installed properly using the "How do I know if this plugin is installed?" troubleshooting step above.
The Document Properties dialog doesn't work in local databases that are not in my Data directory.
This is a known issue, and we currently don't have a good workaround for it.
Sometimes if you open the database properties dialog of the local database, the Document Properties will start working for the duration of that Notes client session, but this isn't guaranteed to work.
Sometimes the field size reported by Advanced Document Properties is slightly different than the field size reported by the native document properties dialog.
The Advanced Document Properties dialog gets field sizes using the standard Notes API call for NotesItem.GetValueLength(). If this is different than the size reported by the native document properties dialog, it's usually because the native dialog also includes the item headers in the field size.
Computed for Display (temporary) fields are not shown in the Advanced Document Properties field list.
If you activate the Advanced Document Properties dialog from a view, the computed fields are not shown.
If you activate the Advanced Document Properties dialog while a document is currently open in a tab, it will normally display the computed fields along with the stored fields. Sometimes this does not work properly for MIME/Internet email documents. This is a known problem and we currently don't have a good workaround.
For Internet mail documents, why does the native document properties dialog display the Body field as multiple MIME fields, and Advanced Document Properties display it as a single rich text field?
This was a design decision we made because we felt that the converted rich text was more human-readable, and much closer to what you see when you actually open the document. It also makes it easier to search and display the field value.
If you really want to see the MIME fields of an Internet email document in all their glory, the easiest way is to drag the mail document from your inbox to your Windows or Mac desktop; by default, this will save the mail in .eml format, which is a text document containing the entire email in MIME format.