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Is it possible to search on the internal ID in Lotus Notes?
Is it possible to search on the internal ID in Notes?
One of the Database Admins is reporting a document has vanished after he updated it. This form has
no Reader fields in it. My expectation is that it got deleted, but he has a link from the doc before it
disapeared, which has the doc ID, but I don't know how to search on it.
The ID is the very long internal id that Notes assigns. (OFC58990A6:4D90ADA3-0N862
One of the Database Admins is reporting a document has vanished after he updated it. This form has
no Reader fields in it. My expectation is that it got deleted, but he has a link from the doc before it
disapeared, which has the doc ID, but I don't know how to search on it.
The ID is the very long internal id that Notes assigns. (OFC58990A6:4D90ADA3-0N862
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(1) Copy the UNID to your clipboard (select the text, then press CTRL-C).
(2) Open the UNID view.
(3) Click anywhere in the view.
(4) Press CTRL-V (this will bring up the "Starts with..." window).
(5) Press the "Search" button in the "Starts with..." window.
(2) Open the UNID view.
(3) Click anywhere in the view.
(4) Press CTRL-V (this will bring up the "Starts with..." window).
(5) Press the "Search" button in the "Starts with..." window.
Umm, sure you can search on Notes ID
1) The Domino Administrator can do this... files tab, right click, find Notes. You have to take out the extra stuff (the OF and ON and the punctuation)
2) NOtesPeek does this, free from IBM
1) The Domino Administrator can do this... files tab, right click, find Notes. You have to take out the extra stuff (the OF and ON and the punctuation)
2) NOtesPeek does this, free from IBM
True. Being a coder, I sometimes miss the simple admin solutions.
Here's a third way that good coders use too:
notes://name of server/name of file/000/UNID
notes://name of server/name of file/000/UNID
wow, good tip qwaletee...learned something new. Didn't realize the admin client could do that !
thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing
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A little more background. I was working with another developer on his database for this. He reported getting a "circular reference error" message when updating the document involved. He exited out of Notes. Came back in and the document was gone. We tried listing the docs out per UNID, via Bill's suggestion. It appears to be really gone.
I'm not spending any more time on this, but I do have some concern that the error could repeat. Any thoughts or comments?
Thanks!
I'm not spending any more time on this, but I do have some concern that the error could repeat. Any thoughts or comments?
Thanks!
Circular errors are typically a memory corruption problem with Notes that gets resolved when Notes is restarted. Unfortunately, the behavior Notes exhibits when it has such errors is completely erratic, and yes, you can lose data or end up with documents in a weird state. I've never been able to figure out what might set them off, but fortunately, it doesn't seem to happen that frequently, and is sometimes fixed in point releases.
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