Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : Serious BUGS: Domino 6.0.x and 6.5 view applet

Just in case there is anybody out there who happens to want to upgrade to ND6 and relies heavily on the view applet:

There are two serious bugs with the view applet that ships in Domino 6.0 through 6.0.3 and 6.5. The problems manifest on any Win32 platform using various browsers with various JVMs.

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Issue #1: The applet can become "stuck", locking the applet. The browser then locks immediately or shortly thereafter and must be "End Task"ed. It is fairly easy to reproduce -- simply click around a bit, scrolling and expanding/collapsing. In particular, clicking in the scrollbars or arrows while the applet is fetching more data (i.e. "Reading View Data...") has a high tendency to lock the applet. Feel free to try it out in 6.5 using this sandbox link:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ViewByApplicationName

SPR AKNX5P8PBW (in the 6.0.x codestream) -- This SPR is an earlier, more-specific scenario used to reproduce this problem, involving rapid clicking on the scrollbar arrows. At first this problem was deemed a limitation with garbage cleanup in the JVM, and closed as not-to-be-fixed but also not-reproducable in the 6.5 codestream. However the issue is much easier to reproduce than just rapid-clicking on the scrollbar arrows, and is reproducible in the 6.5 codestream (SPR below). This SPR has supposedly been re-opened due to the significance and high-visibility of this issue.

SPR FBEE5TF38P (in the 6.5 codestream) -- Currently under investigation by development. Update: Lotus has no plans to fix this issue, and is trying to migrate customers away from the view applet.

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Issue #2: When there are multiple pages of data in the view applet, moving to the bottom of the applet by dragging the scrollbar to the bottom and releasing it or pressing CTRL-END will take you to what appears to be the bottom of the view. You will not, however, actually be looking at the true bottom-most data in the view. Forcing a refresh by either pressing F9 or scrolling up until "Reading View Data..." occurs will cause the applet to properly update the position in the view data. Also, if categories are fully-expanded when jumping to the bottom, only the categories (i.e. no inner-level rows) are shown.

To reproduce:

1. Go to the sandbox link: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ViewByApplicationName
2. Press either CTRL-END or drag the scrollbar box to the bottom and release it.
3. Scroll up or press F9

To reproduce the categories problem:

1. Go to the sandbox link: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ViewByApplicationName
2. Press SHIFT + to expand all categories
3. Press either CTRL-END or drag the scrollbar box to the bottom and release it.

SPR JIZO5UD2AL (against 6.0.x and 6.5 codestream) -- Currently under investigation by development. Update: Lotus has no plans to fix this issue, and is trying to migrate customers away from the view applet.

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A workaround attempted was to shoehorn the 5.0.12 applet onto the server -- that didn't work.