#Community
Posts tagged #Community · 6 posts
- 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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