Andrew Kennel

Web Developer

More on the email bug

February 15, 2008

I opened a case with IBM today. I explained the problem we were seeing, and forwarded them a copy of the problem message. I showed them the work-around I found and they verified that everything worked as I described it in their own test server. As expected, they’re blaming it on Microsoft. I insisted that…

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PDF Searching Trouble or Thanks Windows x64!

February 15, 2008

VP noticed that PDF files weren’t being indexed on the production servers. This is something I’d looked at when I was fist setting up the servers, but hadn’t revisited since then. Mea Culpa. I had time yesterday afternoon to track down the answer. It turns out our problem is caused by running Windows Server x64….

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Created a tuition reimbursement form in Infopath

February 14, 2008

This is getting easier. I’ve found it’s best to go over a print-out of the form you’re migrating first and group the information into sections. For example, in this form I had the following sections: Employee Info, Course Info, Justifications, and Approval.Once you have groups for each of the sections created, it’s a simple matter…

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More graphic work

February 14, 2008

We’re resizing the menu bar to make it smaller. This means that some of the graphics need to be shrunk accordingly. Two in particular that stick out (literally) are the end caps. These graphics give the menu nicely curved sides. Once again, I was volunteered to make the change. I started work yesterday afternoon and…

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Tracking down an email bug

February 14, 2008

We’re currently a Lotus Notes shop for email. Normally Notes and Sharepoint get along fairly well, but I’ve run into a problem. When a user submits a document that kicks off a workflow, the system emails them a notification message. This message lets the user know what is happening and provides a link to the…

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