#Community
Posts tagged #Community · 7 posts
- Field Notes from panagenda's MakeNotesFaster Webinar: Slow Notes Is Usually Configuration, Not Old Laptops
In panagenda's MakeNotesFaster webinar, Christoph Adler breaks HCL Notes 14.5.1 FP1 client performance on Windows down to two decisions: run the right version, configure it right. Here are the points most useful to admins — one brutal real-world customer number, why ODS quietly steals startup time on every open, whether you should delete cache.ndk regularly (he debunks the myth outright), keeping the data directory off network shares, the three traps in an antivirus exclusion set, and the Monday-morning checklist he closes with.
2026.09.26 - Field Notes from OpenNTF's Domino IQ RAG Webinar: the 30-Char Gotcha, Vectorization in 3 Steps, and the FP1 Readers Fix
OpenNTF hosted HCL's Brian Arnold for a deep session on Domino IQ RAG. We've already covered how the pipeline works under the hood; this is the field-report layer — the 30-character limit for RAG-enabling short fields and the concat-field way around it, vectorization in three steps, the three knobs to tune, the fact that Readers/Authors-field security only really started working in Domino 2026 FP1, and the citations, side panel, and MCP still under development.
2026.08.04 - 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.
2026.06.27 - Containerizing HCL Domino 9.0.1 Outside HCL's Official Scope — A Community PoC and 5 Pitfalls You'll Hit
HCL only ships container images for Domino 10.0.1 FP3 and newer — if you're still on 9.0.x and want to containerize for dev/test, migration rehearsal, or legacy preservation, the official path doesn't exist. This article walks through a community feasibility study: RHEL UBI 7.9 base, two-stage build, ~1.48 GB image that runs Domino 9.0.1 FP10, joins an existing Domino domain, and brings HTTP/NRPC/LDAP/IMAP/POP3/SMTP up cleanly. The PoC also documents 5 critical pitfalls HCL docs don't cover (Perl namespace bug / FP installer rejects -silent / J9 JVM heap too small / setup-complete marker uses the wrong variable / password-protected server.id stdin block), each with the actual error message and workaround. Full Dockerfile and troubleshooting live in the bryanHsiao/build-hcl-domino9-container repo.
2026.05.22 - domino-container-lp-recipe — A Community Tool for Adding the Traditional Chinese Language Pack to HCL Domino Container (with templates for additional languages)
The official HCL domino-container repo ships with 6 Language Packs (DE/ES/FR/IT/NL/JA). Issue #55 discussed how to install other LPs; the maintainer's position was that adding more LPs to build.sh would mean owning maintenance for every language — a reasonable engineering call for a personally-maintained open source repo. The community tool domino-container-lp-recipe fills that extension path: a 'dynamic patch' approach (not a fork) that ships an end-to-end verified Traditional Chinese (TC) patch, plus Simplified Chinese (SC) and Korean (KO) entries in language_registry.py as templates for the community to verify and extend. The patch surface is small (~50 lines across 4 files), and the recipe drifts cheaply with upstream. This article walks through the tool's background, the three-layer LP integration, the recipe-vs-fork design decision, quickstart, adding new languages, and a sync-trap caveat you must read before rebuilding an already-running server.
2026.05.19 - OpenNTF's LotusScript Class Map: 97 Classes on One Interactive Page, Open-Source Data Behind It
OpenNTF released a LotusScript Class Map for HCL Domino 14.5.1 in 2026 — 97 classes, 1,001 properties, 997 methods, 72 events laid out on one interactive visual map, every node clickable through to the HCL docs. This piece covers what the tool does, the open-source license and JSON data behind it, and why it's useful for picking topics, planning learning paths, and exploring the API surface.
2026.05.08 - Welcome to Domino News
A bilingual HCL Domino site — covering the latest news and technical deep-dives across the ecosystem.
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