NotesRichTextParagraphStyle, NotesRichTextTab & NotesColorObject: Laying Out Rich Text in Code

Building rich text from LotusScript isn't just appending strings — margins, alignment, line spacing, tab stops, and colour are separate objects you stamp on before the text. This article covers NotesRichTextParagraphStyle (the layout), NotesRichTextTab (tab stops, born read-only from the style), and NotesColorObject (colour maths), the twips measurement system, the append-style-before-text rule, and the non-obvious bit: NotesColorObject doesn't colour text directly — you derive a Domino colour value from it.

NotesInternational: Stop Hard-Coding Date Separators and Currency Symbols

NotesInternational is a read-only window onto the regional settings of whatever machine your code runs on — date order, separators, AM/PM strings, currency symbol and format, time zone, and the DST flag. This article covers getting it from session.International, the property groups worth knowing, a runnable example that detects the locale's date order, and the three traps: it reflects the host OS (not the end user), it's read-only, and its TimeZone sign convention is the classic counter-intuitive Notes one.

NotesAdministrationProcess: Filing AdminP Requests from LotusScript

Renaming a user, deleting one cleanly, recertifying, moving a mail file, changing an Internet password — these are AdminP jobs you'd normally click through in the Administration client. NotesAdministrationProcess files those same requests from code into admin4.nsf. This article covers session.CreateAdministrationProcess, the request methods and their note-ID return value, the certifier properties, and the three things that trip people up: it needs unrestricted rights, it's asynchronous, and '*' means 'no change'.

NotesTimer: Firing an Event Every Few Seconds in the Notes Client

Want to do something every few seconds on an open Notes client screen — auto-refresh a view, poll for new documents, update a status display? NotesTimer is exactly that: give it an interval in seconds at creation and it fires an Alarm event periodically. This article covers creating it, the Interval / Enabled / Comment properties, binding a handler with On Event, and the four limitations you must know: UI-only (not agents), declare it globally, the handler must finish within the interval, and it's enabled by default.

NSF ODP Tooling: Build Domino NSFs from Source, No Designer Required

NSF ODP Tooling is an OpenNTF project that turns a binary NSF into a file-system On-Disk Project you can keep in Git, then compiles it back into a full NSF without Domino Designer — bringing real version control and CI/CD to Domino. Here's what it is, how the Maven plugin and container-based compilation work, and what the 4.1.0 release actually changed.

NotesPropertyBroker / NotesProperty: How Composite Applications Wire Components Together

Composite Applications were a Notes 8.x feature — assembling several components (Notes components, Java/Eclipse components) on one screen and letting them pass values to each other. NotesPropertyBroker is the mediating layer; NotesProperty is the single property being passed. This article is honest about where these classes sit (fairly legacy), covers getting the broker with GetPropertyBroker, the GetPropertyValue / SetPropertyValue / Publish / HasProperty methods, InputPropertyContext, and what it actually means today.

NotesViewColumn: Reading a View's Columns, Their Formulas, and Sorting in Code

You want to inventory a view — which columns it has, whether each is a field or a formula, what's sorted or categorized, what's hidden — without opening Designer. NotesViewColumn reads that from code. This article covers getting it from view.Columns, the Title / ItemName / Formula / Position / IsSorted / IsCategory / IsHidden / IsField / IsFormula properties, and how it lines up with the earlier NotesViewEntry's ColumnValues (the same Position index).

NotesIDVault: Pulling IDs from the ID Vault, Syncing, and Resetting Passwords in Code

The ID Vault is Domino's policy-based facility for centrally storing user ID files. NotesIDVault lets you operate it from code — pull a user's ID file out of the vault, sync a local ID back, check whether someone's ID is in the vault, even reset a vault password. This article covers getting it, the GetUserIDFile / SyncUserIDFile / IsIDInVault / ResetUserPassword / PutUserIDFile methods, its relationship to NotesUserID, and the permission prerequisites for these operations.

NotesRichTextTable: Dropping a Table into Rich Text from Code

You're assembling a rich text email or document in code with NotesRichTextItem and need a table to lay out a summary or report — NotesRichTextItem.AppendTable creates a NotesRichTextTable. This article covers creating one, RowCount / ColumnCount, AddRow / RemoveRow, SetColor / SetAlternateColor for striped rows, RightToLeft, and how to walk an existing table with NotesRichTextNavigator — plus a key limitation: you can't read a cell's contents unless you already know the rich text's exact structure.