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Betty Neyhart
Our partner T4S has built a Forge component (with documentation!) to allow any OutSystems developer to use Domino as a data source for an OutSystems application. This could be for using the Domino data in another application or could be for migration purposes.
Recently I've come across a few customers that were looking into ways to integrate new OutSystems applications with existing data from legacy Lotus Notes / Domino applications that were still being used.
This How To focuses on the second option, specifically abstracting the Platform from the ODBC connection details by creating a Linked Server in MS SQL Server (an alternative here would be to perform the ODBC work inside an extension).
I've researched a number of instructions available on the web and I've tested the steps to created a linked server but none of tutorials we I found seemed explain well enough what you need to do. Below you can find the steps I've learned through these experiments.
I've actually tested them from start to finish in clean environment to make sure they worked just fine.
One more thing... For the OutSystems applications to be able to access the data of the linked server in runtime you need to change the permissions of the OSRuntime database user. This user is the one used to access data by the running applications.
Thanks for this useful article. Now I have nsf file on my local machine and lotus notes. I installed API notessql, SQL server and management studio on my local machine. when I configured ODBC administrator for pointing to nsf file, it crashed and the below error appear :
The problem you are identifying, sounds like there is a multi-value field, that is being categorized. When you do this, you have an option to split the value into multiple rows of data, causing duplication of selected records. It can get confusing when you try to export data that way.
If you do not have developers helping you set up your Microsoft CRM system, you should contract someone. The data in the Domino database can easily be accessed through ODBC, and imported into the correct locations in your new CRM application.
On that note, you can use Access or Excel to connect to the Notes database via the ODBS NotesSQL driver. Then they can make calls to the database just as if you were making calls to a SQL server database.
Depending on how big your database is, it may be easier to create a new view, flat (as was said before), with all of the data in the view and then export the view. There may also be a view like that but it is hidden for lookups. Try going to the workspace, hold down Ctrl+Shift and then double click the database. You may see several views with parentheses around their names. One of those may give you what you need.
From the notes odbc you will create a connection to your domino server. You must installed the odbc connector on a machine that has the domino client already installed. Then go into the odbc applet on your computer and create a system dsn. Fill in the DSN name, server name and database in question (there may be a drop down with the names). Then hit OK or Save. Once the DSN is created you should be able to use MS Query via Excel to create a view of the query that are important. If I remember correctly you can use existing view and the form as a table for export. It has been a while, but we did this quite a bit back in the day. Now you may have a problem with that new version of the ODBC connector and such an old version of notes. You may have the best luck of you set this up on an x32 XP machine over x64/Win7/8
I have a problem using - Export to Lotus Note to export data from Lotus Domino system. I want to export data and files (attached documents) from database with too many same name files (attached to different data). When I run export, all the documents stored in the same location on the file system (folder), and since the Lotus attachment names are same, Lotus export overwrites files, so I have no way to export all the files.
For example, if you are wanting to load this data into a relational database of some sort, you might want to look at using some tools like LEI or Notrix (if it is still around). You could even have a Domino Developer write you some scripts using the LC LSX extensions that are available.
The script would simply need to make a collection of all of the documents that have attachments, then run through each one, detaching the file, renaming it, removing the original file from the document, then adding the new version back to the document again. (Some additional logic should probably be added to limit the run to a couple of 100 at a time, flagging the records that have been completed.)
Hello,I have a VBA code to import mail from Lotus Notes into Access. The database user is able to read his email inside Access, similar to any email program.Unfortunately, when I use the GetItemValue (lotusscript) method to read the body of the...
What resources needed for success ODBC connection on Windows 7 x64 machine? At momen Error 126 stops everything and any remarks about path, registry setting not helps. It can be done on remote computer?
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