Designer Workspace
Every now and then, for no apparent reason, my default Domino Designer page becomes the good old Workspace (as illustrated below). This strange phenomenomem doesn't last for long though (and, no, it's not another prank!). Which is a shame as it's quiet nice to be able to use something other than bookmarks.
Anybody know how to make this a permanent change?
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In the bookmarks, right click the workspace bookmark, and set bookmark as homepage.
just right click on the bookmark for the workspace and there is an option something like "Make Default Homepage", restart Notes and there you go.
The only problem is that if you switch locations a lot it has a tendency to switch back to the R5 default welcome page.
Guys, I'm talking about Domino DESIGNER, not the client...
Try dragging the word Workspace from the top bar to the bookmark bar at the side, then do the set as homepage thing. Only a guess, I've never been fortunate enough for this to happen!
Tried all the obvious things like that but to no avail. It's gone away again now anyway... boo hoo ;o(
I've had the same thing happen a couple of times before, but I don't know what caused it. It stopped once I closed everything.
I have done this before & I will look back through what I did & let you know how to accomplish this.
Jonathan Hart
This has happened to me as recent as today. I will try to duplicate it and post the steps that I going through.
In bookmark.nsf, tried adding @Command([WindowWorkspace]) to PostOpen command of the page DesigerWelcome - but that only opens the ws in the client :-(
back to the drawing board
I've found it happens when you accidentally switch windows between notes, designer or admin while its processing.
For some reason it seems to get confused - quite unusual really....
Similar to Paul, I normally have all 3 clients running, open a mail file in Admin and it will open in designer or Notes, not in Admin.
Then similar behaviour in reverse.
It just gives you the feeling that the whole bookmark.nsf is a tad too flakey for robust usage...
Workspace rules.
I'm not a bookmarks fan either, but this behaviours isn't so much derived from bookmarks, but from the way the client s are "split" -- they're not true separate clients, but all interlinked. For example, if got to open a document in the client and switch to Designer or whatever, chances are that document will open in Designer. Designer is only 170k -- the bulk of its code actually resides in the main Notes executables.
Of course, they could just FULLY multi-thread it... ahem : - O
We're talking about a bug, not an actual undocumented feature ! we'll have to wait with R6 where the whole interface and bookmark system in Designer has had a facelift with some nice new features.
While you can't open the workspace in Designer, what you *can* do is open bookmark.nsf in Designer and hack up the "DesignerWelcome" Page to be a more comfortable startup environment. It could be a fun exercise.
Ben Poole: do an Notes-only installation and then create a file called designer.exe with any old garbage in it ("hello world"). Bingo, you have a designer client!
You can do all kinds of things with the bookmarks.nsf file...such as, redesign the layout of your "client", (note I am speaking of the singularity of the designer & notes "client").
I did this a long time ago with my "client"s. I like that Lotus has left the layout open for redesign as this is of great use when deploying stand-alone db's in public areas to prevent public users from accessing any thing other than what you have hooked them to. I am still trying to find my notes on how I got the Workspace to always be the default page in designer. You can always set the designerwelcome page setting in the outlines to BBDatabases & you then have all of the icon that are on each of the tabs of your workspace as well as your bookmarks. This allows you to use your designer "client" to browse your dbs!
I will continue searching for workspace bug.
interesting...
If you open the DesignBookmarkOrder outline in your bookmark.nsf you see the second entry as Computed/Designer Welcome. If you set this to another page, it will launch that page in the Designer client when it's opened, instead of the DesignerWelcome page.
I'll post back further findings...
Chris
Whatever you do, don't put "@command([windowworkspace])" as an action in place of "DesignerWelcome" in the hope that will work - you just end up needing a new bookmark.nsf