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[Support 1a]

GroupWise dictates the ‘To’ field must contain something when the send button is pressed. GroupWise performs this validation before the applet is executed, so you can’t use Formativ directly to work around this issue.

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you could have the applet remove whatever the user has entered in to the ‘To’ field and replace it with something else.

Alternatively, you could create a new user interface (i.e not use the standard GroupWise mail view at all). You would need to send the message yourself using code, but you would have full control over recipients and other details.

Ultimately, the optimal solution depends on your objectives. I would be happy to provide some more ideas if you elaborate on what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

What version of Windows do you see this on? Older versions of Window (95, NT and to a lesser extent, 98 and 98ME) have a very limited amount of a particular resource available. Depending on how GroupWise is configured, installing any third party add-on’s can cause this resource to become exhausted. This can manifest itself in the way you describe , i.e. an inability to load spell checking files. This is the only issue we are aware of where installing any third party add-in can cause the spell checker not to load.

If this is the case, you can usually work around the problem by removing unused components that are wasting the resource in question (for example, the ‘Tip of the Day’ feature in GroupWise uses a relatively high number of resources).

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

The current version of the Business Solutions Pack installer does not provide any mechanism by which you can specify the applets to be installed. This is a feature we plan to add to the next release of the installer.

I understand other sites using ZEN to roll out applets first install the applets to a local machine, remove those they don’t want, and finally build a ZEN snapshot.

If you are using eDirectory, another option would be to distribute the applets using the Directory itself. See the Distribution Kit documentation for more information.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Thank you for your question. The example AXT files simply run the standard Formativ Installer. (The same one that is run manually). As with a manual installation, an AXT installation may pass any supported parameters to the installer executable. These command line parameters are documented in the Windows Installer topic of the Distribution Kit documentation. The most useful parameters is /i-, which lets you specify a configuration file used by the installer. This file can specify many standard settings, including the location of applets and data. See the topic mentioned above for full details.

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Yes, you can define new images. You will need to distribute an additional file to do this. Have a look at the ‘Creating new button images’ topic in the Formativ Programmers Guide for detailed information.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Thank you for your question. Formativ applets currently run in a sandboxed environment, and cannot load shared code. The only way currently to ‘share’ code is to cut and paste source between applets.

Formativ 2.0, which is due for release early next year, does provide a mechanism where applets can chain other applets, and also share data dynamically.

We do have firm plans to add true code reuse facilities similiar to C++

<#includes>

, but I cannot say when this feature will become available.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Hi Ralf,

Client.ClientState.CurrentAccount returns an instance of an Object API Account object. This is the object that exposes the proxied property. The Novell documentation doesn’t really make this clear.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Hi Ralf,

Try:

bProxied = Client.ClientState.CurrentAccount.Proxied

where ‘Client’ is the clientstate object passed to every applet via Sub Main(Client, GWEvent).

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Novell have confirmed they can reproduce this issue and have confirmed it as a bug in the GroupWise client. They have allocated a defect number, and will notify us when a fix is available.

Thank you to all who helped track down this issue.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

The image doesn’t have to reside on the web. To include an image from your local machine, try including the full path to the file using the format shown below:

<IMG SRC="file:///c:/web/images/advansys.gif" ALT="Advansys Header" WIDTH="178" HEIGHT="28">

Both GIF and JPG are fine – you can use whatever MS Internet Explorer will render.

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

It sounds like a errant applet may be to blame. While logged in as the user that experiences the problem, could you please go to the GroupWise Help menu, and select About Formativ. When the About box appears, select the configuration tab, then press the copy to clipboard button. Paste the contents of the clipboard into a new email message addressed to support@advansyscorp.com. Once we receive the config information we may be able to detect the problem.

When you say the problem is reproducible on every machine tested, do you mean when the same user is logged in? You also mention other users work fine, so I assume the former.

I would also suggest you manually copy all the applets this user is accessing (the path will be shown in the configuration information referred to above) to another directory, then re-start GroupWise and see if the problem persists. If the problem dissapears it is likely one of the applets you moved was being executed on reply and is causing the problem. In this case you may also wish to ZIP all the applets this user has installed and sending them to the same address above for analysis.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

You actually use a filter to perform a find. Here’s a simple example:

dim iFilter
 dim oMessages
 
 iFilter = "(MAIL) AND (SUBJECT CONTAINS ""test"")"
 set oMessages = groupwise.account.mailbox.messages.find(iFilter)
 msgbox oMessages.count
 
 set oMessages = nothing

Examples of other filter syntaxes include:

(SUBJECT CONTAINS "Internet") 
(AUTHOR MATCHES "Ralph Spoilsport") 
(MESSAGE BEGINSWITH "Now Hear This") 
(MESSAGE CONTAINS CASE ("Inter*" OR "Intra*") AND ("Test" .. "Plan")) 
(FROM MATCHES <MY_BOSS, STRING> 
(TASK) 
(CREATE_DATE >= YESTERDAY AND CREATE_DATE <= TODAY) 
(FROM CONTAINS "TJEFFERSON" OR FROM CONTAINS "JADAMS") AND (MESSAGE BEGINSWITH "When in the course" AND CREATE_DATE = 1776/7/4) 
(DUEEND_DATE <= TOMORROW) 
(START_DATE >= 2002/2/5 AT 8:00:00) 
(CREATE_DATE >= THIS_YEAR 31) 
(<BIRTHDAY, DATE> = THIS_MONTH) 
(SIZE < 12000) 
(NUMBER_ACCEPTED = TOTAL_RECIPIENTS) 
(<TOTAL_EMPLOYEES, NUMERIC> > 50) 
(PRIORITY = HIGH) 
(ATTACHMENT_TYPE = OLE) 
(BOX_TYPE = INCOMING) 
(APPOINTMENT AND NOT ACCEPTED) 
(MAIL OR TASK) AND (NOT HIDDEN) 

See the Novell Object API documentation topic on filters for more information

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Here’s a simple example that includes an image that exists on a web site:

<HTML> 
  <HEAD> 
  <TITLE></TITLE> 
  </HEAD> 
  <BODY> 
  <P><B><IMG SRC="http://www.novell.com/common/img/hdr_logo.gif"
  BORDER="0"></B></P>
  <P><FONT SIZE="2">Welcome to
  <A
   HREF="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag/features/a_formativ_applet_central_gw.html">Applet
  Central.</A> This is where you can download free Formativ applets to keep
  expanding the functionality of your GroupWise client. </FONT> </P> </BODY>
</HTML>

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Thanks for the update. Please let us know how you proceed.

Advansys Support

[Support 1a]

Thank you for the problem report – very strange! One of our engineers recalls an issue that could occur if a dialog was defined in a specific way. Could you please send a copy of the applet to support@advansyscorp.com, and we’ll see if we can reproduce the issue.

Advansys Support

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