03 Troubleshooting
Designer
View applet - known issues
- Depending on the font you specify when designing column headings, the title text may be clipped.
- If you insert an embedded view and text in a document, set the embedded view to display as an applet, and then choose Preview in Web Browser, only the embedded view appears. The workaround is to open the top view in the browser and then open the document.
- When you select a document in a view applet and press Delete, the trash can icon appears in the selection column. Unlike in Notes, pressing the F9 key at this point does not result in a prompt for the documents to be deleted. The @Command([EmptyTrash]) action actually deletes the selected document(s).
- View property - Shrink rows to content is always on for the view applet so changes to the Lines per row: field appear to work incorrectly.
- When a view applet is displayed with the Notes browser, an Execution Security Alert dialog box with a clipboard access warning may appear - depending on the settings in your File - Preferences->User Preferences->Security Options->Java applet security screen.
- In Netscape Navigator 4.5, the View applet doesn't re-size automatically if the browser window re-sizes. This is a known Netscape limitation. Netscape doesn't automatically re-size applets when the browser window or frame is re-sized. However, if you refresh, the applet should re-size.
- If you are looking at a database (created from the mail template) using a browser, and then you make changes to the database that affect a view in the browser's cache, use the browser's View->Refresh option to refresh the view.
- The following third-party software issue has been identified: The Macintosh version of Netscape 4.5 quits when attempting to open a document that contains an embedded 1.1 Java applet.
- The Delete key does not work with Netscape 4.04 (990212) on the OS/2 platform.
- All applets except for the view applet are disabled when Internet Explorer 3 or 4 on the Macintosh is detected. That is, the HTML counterparts for these components are used. This is due to design limitations in the Java implementation for these browsers. For the view applet, we issue an error message rather than reverting to the HTML view since templates may have made use of applet-specific features that are not present in the HTML view.
- An embedded view applet in a table with the Width and Height set to "Fit to window" appears incorrectly when viewed with any of the supported Netscape browsers. This is a known Netscape limitation.
- A view applet problem has been observed that involves the behavior of twisties with views that are catagorized. The following description and workaround also apply to using @Command([ViewCollapse]) and @Command([ViewExpand]) instead of the twisties. The problem is that clicking the twistie to collapse/expand the category does not completely collapse it (the second level is not collapsed). This may occur if the view is "time-variant". That is, there is a formula that may cause the view collection to change as a result of the value of that formula changing over time. The workaround for this problem is to bring up the View properties box and in the Advanced tab, set Refresh index: to "Automatic" and set Discard index: to "After each use". Since the view index will be rebuilt each time, this may cause degradation in performance in large views.
- Various problems have been reported that involve the component applets failing to load with Netscape 4.7. We think the problem is in the Netscape Java support and have entered a Netscape Defect Report on the issue.
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