Notes Designer 8.5 Beta 2 Alias Bug
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Beta software is, by it's very nature, bound to contain a few bugs here and there and the IBM Lotus Designer 8.5 Beta 2 client is no exception.
While adding a few new features to BlogSphere today I came across one such bug while editing the alias of a form in the list of forms.
Inview editing is very easy and sometimes accidental, just do a slow double click on the form name or alias in the view and it will change into edit mode. After making your change just click to a different form and the changes are saved. It's actually a handy feature if you want to make a lot of changes without having to open the documents up fully and you can even add inview editing to your applications.
But Designer 8.5 Beta 2 is not saving the document correctly if you edit the alias in the view. It is doing something so that documents created with that form end up with both the forms name AND alias in the form field.
Under normal circumstance only the alias would be listed in the form field.
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Opening the document fully and editing the form name and alias seems to work fine so this only effects the editing of the alias in the view.
I have NOT tested this with any other design element alises but there is a strong chance the same might happen.
Thanks to Chris Toohey for confirming the bug on his copy of the designer beta.
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Beta software is, by it's very nature, bound to contain a few bugs here and there and the IBM Lotus Designer 8.5 Beta 2 client is no exception.
While adding a few new features to BlogSphere today I came across one such bug while editing the alias of a form in the list of forms.
Inview editing is very easy and sometimes accidental, just do a slow double click on the form name or alias in the view and it will change into edit mode. After making your change just click to a different form and the changes are saved. It's actually a handy feature if you want to make a lot of changes without having to open the documents up fully and you can even add inview editing to your applications.
But Designer 8.5 Beta 2 is not saving the document correctly if you edit the alias in the view. It is doing something so that documents created with that form end up with both the forms name AND alias in the form field.
Under normal circumstance only the alias would be listed in the form field.
NOTES :
Opening the document fully and editing the form name and alias seems to work fine so this only effects the editing of the alias in the view.
I have NOT tested this with any other design element alises but there is a strong chance the same might happen.
Thanks to Chris Toohey for confirming the bug on his copy of the designer beta.
Comments
Another side effect is the form note does not seem to be signed properly after the alias is changed "inline". (leading Notes to think it has been tampered with in future edits).
Posted by Steve Castledine At 04:28:24 AM On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by K.S. Bala Murugan At 01:09:46 AM On 09/02/2008 | - Website - |