One of the new features in Connections 2.5 is the ability to link Communities with Quickr places, so that a community can be provisioned with a collaborative document sharing environment.

We're trying to get this working on a customer deployment and have come across a classic problem.

The API creates folders for the quickr such as.. Lotusquick\Teamspace_20for_CommunityName. The problem is that Quickr does not allow capital letters in folder names, and through the native create place methods will alter capitals to lowercase for you. See technote 1402477 - this technote strangely is not showing up on the web, but is in the .nsf version.

UPDATE: My good friend Stuart has found the technote, not through Google but by searching ibm.com! Technote.
You can rest assured that a PMR is hot on it's way to IBM - maybe blogging will have the same result as the AD / DA problem last month!

In the meanwhile you merely need to manually change the folder names to lowercase in Quickr and it will work. Not a great solution but if you have  a number of active Communities you could get them working while we wait for a fix.

Comments (0) Peter Smith October 7th, 2009 12:42:54