Andrew Kennel

Web Developer

Setting up a file system crawl

March 31, 2008

Today I got an AD account from our IS department that had enough permissions to do a file crawl. They asked me to test crawling all the directories located on our department fileshare.This requires setting up two documents. The first setting is the Crawl Source. You access this via your Shared Services Administrative web site….

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What I’m trying to do with my Domino migration tool

March 18, 2008

A few months ago, VP asked me to look at migrating one of our Notes apps to Sharepoint. He asked me to take a look at an existing database called OpenLink. At the time, I looked at the application, saw that it uses 4 different Notes forms and associated views. I recreated the forms in…

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New version of Domino to Infopath tool uploaded

March 16, 2008

I’ve just uploaded a new version of my Domino to Infopath tool. You can download a copy here. This latest version is an overhaul of the mapping screen’s UI. I changed it from a single window that expanded to include all the fields, to a nicer tabbed interface. Now you get 14 fields on a…

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Backup software is working

March 14, 2008

I finally got the backup software we purchased from EMC months ago working. I’d been working with tech support at EMC. Early on they had focused on the customized theme that we’d been using for our look and feel.Turns out they were right. The consultants who created the theme for us, and rolled it out…

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Fixed major bugs in my Domino to Sharepoint (Infopath) migration tool

March 13, 2008

I spent a good portion of the day today fixing the bugs in my import tool. When I started, I knew of 2 major bugs.The first was that the field information was being updated with a few extra characters. I was able to quickly track this down to the string.Substring parameters being off. That was…

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