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Let's look at the standard Lotus Notes View and Folder icons, as provided to us in a TechNote.
However, this TechNote doesn't address Folder Icons that look like this ===> <=== Notice the blue shading of the entire folder icon? I realize that the icon is a little small, so this is what a couple of them look like in a mail file, along with some normal ones:
Before calling Lotus Tech Support, I did the following:
The answer came back in about an hour (sweet!) with the contents of an existing TechNote.
Strange, I thought, but I'll test their theory. This is what I saw when trying to drag-n-drop a mail message into one of those folders:
And the cause of this issue?
Very nice. But I decided to take this a little further. We are in the process of upgrading to Notes/Domino Release 8.0.x. So, I made a design copy of the mail file on our test Domino 8 server and replaced the design with Domino 8 Mail Template. How do these particular folders look in R8?
As you can tell, the difference is striking in Release 8; The orange folders are the normal ones.
So, if you want to fix it (in this case, we are just going to leave it as it is) the TechNote will help:
I think that there should be one more entry in the "Standard Icons for Views & Folders" TechNote. :-)
Link: What are the Standard Icons for Views & Folders and What Do They Tell You?
Link: Unable to drag and drop a document into a folder because slash displays over the folder name
Technorati tag: SnTT Show-n-Tell Thursday
However, this TechNote doesn't address Folder Icons that look like this ===> <=== Notice the blue shading of the entire folder icon? I realize that the icon is a little small, so this is what a couple of them look like in a mail file, along with some normal ones:
Before calling Lotus Tech Support, I did the following:
- Thinking this was related to the workstation, opened the mail file on my PC. The folders maintained their blue-green shading
- Refresh the design of the mail file
- Replace the design of the mail file
- Replace the design of the mail file with the Discussion Database template and then replace it with the mail template
- Examine the design of the mail file. The folders are not Private (denoted by a key icon)
- Noticed, in Designer, that the problem folders, while appearing heirarchical, curiously, didn't have a parent folder
- Created new folder, using just the parent name. Folder created properly. But if I dragged one of the blue-green folders to the new folder, the Folder icon went missing.
- Created new folders in the mail file. They all appear normal. That is, yellow.
- Created a new copy of the mail file. The folder icons were still blue-green.
- Tweeted my followers, asking for ideas
The answer came back in about an hour (sweet!) with the contents of an existing TechNote.
When working with documents in a Lotus Notes® client, you are unable to drag and drop documents into a particular folder. As you drag the documents, a "not allowed" icon, a circle with a slash, appears over the folder name, indicating that the operation is not allowed.
Strange, I thought, but I'll test their theory. This is what I saw when trying to drag-n-drop a mail message into one of those folders:
And the cause of this issue?
If you attempt to drag and drop to a folder when a folder hierarchy does not contain a folder at that level, then the "not allowed" icon appears because that operation is not possible.
For example, you have created a folder named folder1\folder2, but you do not have a folder named folder1. If you attempt to drag to folder1, which does not exist as a separate folder, you see the icon. You might never have created folder1 or created but later deleted it.
Very nice. But I decided to take this a little further. We are in the process of upgrading to Notes/Domino Release 8.0.x. So, I made a design copy of the mail file on our test Domino 8 server and replaced the design with Domino 8 Mail Template. How do these particular folders look in R8?
As you can tell, the difference is striking in Release 8; The orange folders are the normal ones.
So, if you want to fix it (in this case, we are just going to leave it as it is) the TechNote will help:
If you want to drag and drop documents into a folder hierarchy, then a folder for the relative level of the hierarchy must exist. Create a folder if necessary to resolve the problem.
Examples:
- You have a folder hierarchy of folder1\folder2, If you want to drag a document into folder1, then you must create a folder named folder1.
- You have a folder hierarchy of folder1\folder2\folder3. If you want to drag documents into folder2 or folder3, but not folder1, then you must be sure you create a folder named folder1\folder2. Note: The folder folder1\folder2\folder3 does not need to be created; it already exists given the hierarchy.
I think that there should be one more entry in the "Standard Icons for Views & Folders" TechNote. :-)
Link: What are the Standard Icons for Views & Folders and What Do They Tell You?
Link: Unable to drag and drop a document into a folder because slash displays over the folder name
Technorati tag: SnTT Show-n-Tell Thursday
Comment posted by JYR12/05/2008 10:06:07 PM
Gregg, it's not clear enough, you should provide more details!
Great post!
JYR
Comment posted by TamboOnNotes07/13/2011 01:33:43 PM
Interesting post, but......
What about drag-'n-dropping a subfolder to a main folder ? I cannot seem to make it work. Example: Suppose you have this hierarchy of folders: mainFolder/subFolder/subSubFolder. If I want to drag subSubFolder to the mainFolder to make it mainFolder/subSubFolder besides my existing mainFolder/subFolder, I am simply not allowed to do this...
Any thoughts out there ?
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