Release Notes for AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3
Contents
Version History
Release Notes Overview
Version 3.3
Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, Databases and Browsers
Supported BEA Products
Documentation
New Features
Issues Addressed
Known Issues
Post-Release Updates
Version History

Version 3.3 - released October 2006 for Windows, Solaris, and AIX

Release Notes Overview

These release notes cover all releases of AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3, including hotfixes and service packs. For information on a particular release, please go to the appropriate section of these release notes.

Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date. For the most up-to-date release notes, go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html.

Version 3.3
Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, Databases, and Browsers

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers.

At the time of release, AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3 supports the following:

- Operating Systems: Windows 2003 Server SP1, Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on SPARC, and AIX 5.3 on POWER3, POWER4, POWER5
- Lotus Domino Servers: Domino 5.0.11 and 6.5.
- Browsers: IE 5.5 and 6.0, Netscape 7.1 and 7.2, and Firefox 1.0+, Safari 1.2

Supported BEA Products

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported BEA products.

At the time of release, AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3 supports the following:

- AquaLogic Interaction 6.1

Documentation

The product distribution includes the following documents in the Documentation folder. For the most up-to-date documentation, go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html.

Document Title and File Name | Document Description
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Attributions PortletSuite-LotusNotes_Attributions.txt | Provides a list of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information.
Installation Guide for AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3 install.pdf | Describes how to install and upgrade the components of AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes 3.3.

New Features

- Plumtree Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes has been renamed to AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes
- AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes supports Solaris 10

Issues Addressed

- If a user receives the "server not reachable" error when using the master server configuration, the administrator should check the mail server setting in the user's person document on the master server. (Issue #38979)
- The Lotus Notes Portlets use "Low Bandwidth Portal" user interface for Netscape browsers. The Lotus Notes Portlets display a simplified user interface for Netscape browsers. (Issue #10639-1)
- Domino servers running session-based authentication rely on the domain name. The Server Name field must contain a fully-qualified domain name (for example NotesServer.plumtree.com) for Domino servers set up to use Session-Based Authentication. Using a fully qualified domain name for the Server Names "field" in the Administrative Preferences will result in fewer configuration issues. (Issue #11159-1)
- Enabling sorting functionality will increase memory usage on the Remote Server. The Lotus Domino Server does not provide sorting functionality; this functionality is implemented on the Remote Server in the Mail portlet. Enabling sorting using the "enable.sorting" property in the ../config/mail_properties.xml could cause more memory usage on the Remote Server. (Issues #10990-1, #11026-1)
- The Lotus Notes Community Portlets only support the "Portal Setting Authentication" User Information Settings option. The Lotus Notes Community Portlets, Calendar, Mail and Contacts use community portlet preferences for authentication with a Lotus Domino system. The Lotus Notes Community Portlets should only be set up with the "Portal Setting Authentication" option on the "User Information Settings" page of the Administrative Preferences. (Issue #17582-1)

Known Issues

- Lotus Notes Portlets fail to connect to Lotus Domino Server 5.0.11 when installed on AIX. (Issue #48465)
- When executing the ptnotesd.sh to start or stop the Plumtree Notes daemon, a message indicating that the "Plumtree Test Service" is being started or stopped will appear. Only the message is erroneous; the Plumtree Notes service is actually being started or stopped. (Issue #44355)
- Image Server path to Lotus Notes Portlets JavaScripts uses the wrong case in the directory named "strings" on Unix operating systems. (Issue #48523)
  Workaround: Navigate to the Image Service @IMAGESERVER/imageserver/RemoteGadgets/groupwareui/scripts/ and change folder "strings" to "Strings".
- The Lotus Notes Portlets do not support attachment functionality in an environment where different versions of Lotus Domino Server are used. (Issue #39448)
- The Lotus Notes Portlets do not support contact search specifically for groups. The current implementation support contacts search by First or Last Name only. (Issue #39190)
- An appointment in the Lotus Notes Calendar portlet is displayed separately under "All Day Events" tab when the "Show Time As" field is changed from "Busy" to "Tentative". (Issue #38973)
- Appointments that span multiple days will automatically be marked as all day appointments by Notes. (Issue #39585)
- The Lotus Notes Contacts portlet gives a non-descriptive error message when the user tries to save an empty contact within the low bandwidth portal UI or with Netscape. (Issue #39854)
- The Lotus Notes Mail portlet does not mark the system folder "Trash" as unavailable when copying messages. Users cannot copy email messages to the system folder "Trash". (Issue #39687)
- E-mail attachments are not recognized as a valid file format when the portlet is accessed using "Low Bandwidth Portal" setting on Plumtree 4.5SP1 Hot Fix 1. (Issue #18822-1)
  Workaround: To access e-mail attachments, use the "Standard Portal" accessibility option under Portal Settings.
- Uploaded files that include Asian characters in the filename are renamed to "File.doc" when uploaded from a Remote Server that does not run the matching Asian language operating system. The filename of uploaded attachments that include Asian characters in the filename will be renamed to "File.doc", when the Lotus Notes Portlet Suite is running an operating system language that does not match the language of the Asian characters included in the filename. This issue is a limitation of Java 1.3x; the Asian characters included in the filename are encoded resulting in a FileNotFoundException, and the upload function in the Lotus Notes Portlets renames the file to "File.doc". In this scenario only one file can be attached to the document since the attachment filenames need to be unique. The content of the "File.doc" file can be viewed successfully. (Issue #17758-1)
- The Lotus Notes Portlets do not allow specification of username and password authentication for Lotus Domino servers configured to use proxy server. The Lotus Notes Portlets provide functionality to specify a proxy server name and port for the Lotus Domino servers on the "Server List" page of the Administrative Preferences. The current Server List configuration does not allow specification of username and password for the proxy server. The Lotus Notes Portlets have not been certified against an environment where communication to the Lotus Domino server is through a proxy server. (Issue #18383-1)
- The default date shown in the Create Appointment window is the current date. The default date shown in the Create Appointment window is the current date, not the date selected by the user in the Calendar. (Issue #10198-1)
- High and low priority flags are not displayed for messages in Sent and Drafts folders. Messages can be sent with high and low priority indicators, but priority indicators only appear for messages in the Inbox folder. This is similar to the behavior of the Notes client. (Issue #11783-1)
- The Lotus Notes Portlets localized support does not include Chinese in Plumtree Portal 5.0.x. (Issue #39929)
- Read and unread flags are not supported by Lotus Notes Domino Java API. All messages in the Lotus NotesMail Portlet are displayed in bolded font and appear unread. (Issue #11318-1)
- The Contact search relies on Lotus Notes Server database Full Text indexing. If Lotus Notes Server database Full Text indexing is enabled, new contacts will only be shown if they are included in the index. (Issue #11160-1)
  Workaround: The indexing for most databases is hourly or daily. To verify this, open the database in question (usually the local mail file), select database-properties, go to the full text index tab and look at the number of unindexed documents.
- Community portlets in Lotus Notes Portlets have "write" rights given to the community members in Plumtree Portal 4.5WS. (Issue #39912)

Post-Release Updates

- When upgrading to Lotus Notes Portlets 3.3 from version 3.2, the installer wizard page that prompts for the installation folder shows the default installation directory as c:\Program Files\plumtree instead of the correct default directory, which is c:\bea\alui. (Issue #56092) December 11, 2006