Quick Find a Document's UNID
In my quest for the discovery of new features of Domino 6 I have been flicking through properties tabs like a man possessed. Yesterday I found the ability to find a document's Unique ID from the Meta Data tab of the Properties Box. Like below:
You can also easily find the Replica ID of the database. Very useful for somebody who has always resorted to running a Design Synopsis every time they wanted it. That's me that is. All you need to do now is open the database and find a document in a view. Anyway, today I was going to blog about this being a useful new feature. Before I started I thought I'd better check it really is a new feature. As you probably know it's also in Release 5 and it has just passed me by for the last 3 years. Nevertheless, still a nice-to-know.
In other happenings: A follow up to the Netgear WAP problems I was having. A story with a happy ending for once.
Not having any faith in Netgear I took the problem to my suppliers, Videk, who are always really good to deal with. They forwarded my mail to Netgear and within a couple of days a free replacement shows up. Now that is what I call service!
What would be really impressive is if they take me up on my request that they document the problem on their support site and make it easier for the next person to overcome. I know some of you were doubtful as to whether the power supply differences could cause problems. I think the fact that they send out free replacements, no questions asked, speaks volumes. I would love to say it was through the power of blogging that they caved in but, as far as I know, they are unaware I am talking about them here...
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Hope you weren't referring to me as a disbeliever in the power supply causing your WAP problems. :-) Having had a pre-Domino life as an engineer like you - but as an EE - I just felt intitled to point out, that a device /should/ not get used to a bigger power supply. Sure engough, I was absolutely willing to follow your suspicion.
There's probably not much out there causing as much trouble - often *not* sorted out correctly - with all sorts of PC electronics as inadequate power supplies.
It was indeed you Harkpabst and I understand where you're coming from (I did a little EE as part of my degree as well). Weird things happen...
Hi Jake,
should I ask them ? They are in my employers building :o).
Whenever talking about NetGear anyone should not forget that they mostly provide low cost solutions and therefore are not able to provide support capabilities like the big ones. At least they are better than D-Link and I really enjoy their robust cases.
Cheers
Heini
Other fields on the Meta Data tab.... What are they for ? How can they be used ? Do they interact with the FTIndex ? Can they be set via formula or script ?
Does anyone know ?
No idea Ian. I didn't even know the tab was there until a few days ago.
Playing with it reveals - if you CHANGE one of the values already there, say Creator, is ADDS a dpecial field to the document called $$Creator. Similarly, if you add some keywords you add a field called $$Categories. etc etc.
What use are they? I have no idea. Probably like all the Author stuff you get in the properties of Word documents. It's all just meta data...
These fields only seem to come into play on mail related docs - a look at the field properties on your inbox view suggests that Title=Subject and Creator=From - if you look at a document in another DB that has these fields then Title & Creator are populated but otherwise not. Can't say I can really see any use for them but there must be a reason. Does anyone know ?
From the context help in the metadate tab:
"Metadata is information that describes the characteristics of stored data. It can be used to organize and search documents."
"Metadata allows authors or librarians, for example, to find bibliographic data that represents the document. When you open a document, metadata is already captured in some fields. However, you can also capture metadata about a document while you are in a view by clicking the Meta tab and filling out fields."
"You can post metadata for a document in the Domain catalog, which creates a link to the document. Domain search then indexes the document's metadata."