Tag: Lotus Notes 8

  • Errors in week numbering – Lotus 8.*

    In migrating many of our users to Lotus Notes 8, we have recently found that some of them have experienced problems with week numbering, as 2009 has 53 weeks. Week number 53 is shown as week 1. This error carries over to 2010, meaning that week 1 is shown as week 2, and so on.…

  • Signature is not autoinserted in Notes 8.0.2

    I had a user call in recently, complaining that, even though she’d defined a signature to be added automatically. She got no error message, and had not changed anything about her setup.   Though she hadn’t changed anything, a change had been made. All the mailfiles’ design (for those who ran version 8.*) had been…

  • Lotus Notes 8 – ‘A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?’

    I’ve had a few cases of users running into this error message in Lotus Notes 8.0.1:     The problem is tied to the embedded version of IBM’s instant messaging system Sametime, and has been reliably reproduced in any of the following conditions:   Initiating a chat session Clicking the telephone icon Receiving a chat…

  • Lotus Notes 8 – a Quick overview

    For one reason or another, I have a stated preference for using webmail over some sort of locally installed client. There are many reasons, but the main one is that I want to be able to read mail wherever, whenever. Now, at work, this is not really an option. We do have webmail access, but…