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Prohibit design refresh Reporter

I needed some way of listing all design elements that have the property “Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify” enabled. Instead of doing this manually, I created a little agent that does this for me.

So I tweaked it a little and wrapped it in a little database to share it with you. Little tools like this you don’t need every day, but they can be handy every now and then.

How to use?

1. Copy/paste the form, view and agent ProhibitReport to your target database.
2. Don’t change the names! This way the agent can exclude those design elements in its report.
3. Run the agent from the menu Actions - ProhibitReport.
4. Wait some seconds…

What’s next?

I don’t know yet. The tool opened a little window in my head that makes me want to create more extended reports for designers. I have some vague fluffy idea clouds about what those reports could contain, but your comments can help me outlining them more.

Or you could just say: “Naaah, rubbish!”

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10 Responses to “Prohibit design refresh Reporter”

1. Keith Strickland says:
   December 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm

   Cool idea. I think something like this would fair well on OpenNTF as a utility that would allow you to search all databases, or choice databases or whatever for design element reports.

   Keith

2. Martin Vereecken says:
   December 25th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

   Hi Keith, thanks! Indeed, maybe this could be a new utility, but I think the tool should do more then than just showing “prohibit…”.
   Btw nice website!

3. Keith Strickland says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 2:51 am

   Thanks Martin, ditto for yours, dunno how this UI jewel got past me for so long

   But I agree about the utility, it should definitely do more than just find the “prohibit…” items. I’ve never tried to interact programmatically (sp?) with design element properties but I find the thought of it intriguing none the less.

   Keep the ideas rolling and the creative honey pouring

4. Martin Vereecken says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am

   Thanks, but it’s easy how it got past you: I’m only really blogging since October 2007 :-).
   It would be nice to see all dependencies of a database listed…

5. Ken Haggman says:
   January 15th, 2008 at 9:18 am

   Actually, getting the ‘Prohibit’ information is a subset of what you get from the Dependencies tool in NotesHound.

6. Martin Vereecken says:
   January 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

   Ken,
   I looked at NotesHound; it could be worth the money, but it’s not cheap. Maybe a trial version would help?

7. Ken Haggman says:
   January 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am

   ‘Cheap’ is a relative term. Compared to what you need to pay for similar tools from other vendors, NotesHound is cheap. In particular when you consider that the license cost is a on-off, you get free upgrades forever.

   When NotesHound was a pure Notes Client set of tools, we did have trial versions. At the moment we don’t - but we are seriously considering that option. Our problem is to keep the codebases in order without too much of a hassle.

8. Martin Vereecken says:
   January 16th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

   I know cheap is relative. My first impression was: “wow, it does seem to do great things that I could use!”, followed by “where’s the trial?” Investing in software is important, but putting money in the wrong tools is a shame. I don’t say your software is not good, I simply don’t know, I’d like to play with it.

9. Ken Haggman says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

   Hi again Martin,

   Just to let you know, you can now get trial versions of Noteshound.
   If you want one, just go to our website (http://www.noteshound.com), hit the ‘Trial’ button, fill in and submit the form.
   Once submitted, you will be sent a link to a trial version that won’t expire for at least a month.

   Cheers

10. Martin Vereecken says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    TrialRequested:=@True

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