Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Are they sure they were using ODMA to integrate with WP 6.1 back
when they were using TeamLinks 2.5-4?  They only way could have
done that was to manually install the files in the TLODMA25.ZIP file.
Did they do that?

The reason I ask is they might have been using the direct Filecab.dll
integration.  That might have worked.

Did they add an ODMA updates from Novell or Corel into WordPerfect
6.1?  They usually have names like ODMAR4.ZIP or ODMAR5.ZIP (which
is the latest).  They should be up to ODMAR5 by now.

I think I know what the problem is.  It looks like the ODMA Document
ID string has been lowercased.  This was a problem with some commands
in WP.  I thought they had fixed it but maybe not.

We might need a PTR on this one.

Bob

    Bob,
    
    I talked with the customer (City of Wichita, Cathy Westphal).  She
    did in fact have the ODMA installed in 2.5-4 with WordPerfect 6.1.
    She procured it from you.  She had the exerpt from the notesfile
    with instructions, etc. and the file it referred to was odmae.zip...
    She received it 12/26/95.
    
    Do I need to enter PTR?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Debbie Giannetti

Bob's in a class this week, so I don't know when he'll be
responding. He has been known to wander through the notes
file in the evening hours, so hopefully he'll respond soon.

Jerry

Hi Debbie,

>    I talked with the customer (City of Wichita, Cathy Westphal).  She
>    did in fact have the ODMA installed in 2.5-4 with WordPerfect 6.1.
>    She procured it from you.  She had the exerpt from the notesfile
>    with instructions, etc. and the file it referred to was odmae.zip...
>    She received it 12/26/95.

Wow!  This was a long time ago!  It was 61ODMAE.ZIP and that was the
first ODMA update to WP 6.1 from Novell.  I think I remember talking
to them.

That update is pretty old and I never tested it against TL 2.7 or
2.7-001.  Off hand I don't know why it wouldn't work.  The ODMA
code in TL 2.7 is a bit stricter and more robust.  Also the Document
ID was changed slightly to eliminate spaces and double-quote characters.
I don't know why the newer ODMA code would effect this one mail 
merge function in WP 6.1 using Update 1.

It's now Corel that owns WP.  They are up to update 5 now.  They've
made quite a lot of changes to fix bugs and improve ODMA interaction.
See FAQ topic 31.6.  You might want to mail that note to them.  
Perhaps they can try update 5 on one PC to see if that helps with 
this problem.

I did forward the text from the base topic to Corel.  The person at
Corel who handles this left me a voice mail message about this report
the other day.  He's a bit swamped and hasn't had a chance to look
into it and respond.  I'll try to remind him about this.

I'm sure the first thing he will ask is that they try Update 5.  So
have the customer try it.  I suspect it will not help, but who 
knows, maybe it will.

Bob

Hi again Debbie,

Another thing to check.  Is it possible that when this Mail 
Merge error occurs that the documents involved are in a TL 2.7 Local 
"internet" file cabinet and that TL is currently in Offline mode?
If so, have them put TL back online or put the documents into
a regular TL Local FC and try it again.  There's a bug in this
combination.  I don't think that's the problem, but I'm just 
trying to cover all the bases.

They could enable "LOG, FILECAB, TLODMA" logging in the CFCLOGOPTIONS
key in Office.ini, then reproduce the problem and send the resulting
CFCDEBUG.LOG file.  It will prove to me if the bug is from Corel
or Digital.

Bob

**** CFC started Thu Mar 27 07:39:31 1997 ****
CFCIOS DLL version: TeamLinks Client IOS BaseLevel BL61
ALL-IN-1 on node MONEY is version V3.1 with TLC V2.5, running File Cabinet Server version 4

AIDA DLL version: V3.2-0 AIDA$RG35B
AIDA Server version on money: V2.5-1 AIDA$ICF038


TLODMA: ODMGetODMInterface (riid=0x0, ppvObj=0x4bbf032c, pUnkOuter=0x0, pReserved=0x0, lpszAppId=0x4bbf0306, dwEnvData=0x298)
TLODMA:    Input lpszAppId= "WordPerfect"	Length=11
TLODMA:    FilecabSessId=39162

TLODMA: AddRef   Object=0x3dd702ee  RefCount=2

TLODMA: Release  Object=0x3dd702ee  RefCount=1
TLODMA:    Output *ppvObj= 0x3dd702ee
TLODMA:    HRESULT value from ODMGetODMInterface = 0x0

TLODMA: AddRef   Object=0x3dd702ee  RefCount=2

TLODMA: Release  Object=0x3dd702ee  RefCount=1

TLODMA: ODMGetDocInfo (lpszDocId=0x3d0f19a2, item=2 {ODM_NAME}, lpszData=0x354fdb34, dataLen=156)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\#LOCAL\[MY%020LOCAL%020FC]Kathy's%020Local%020Drawer\3460300000000"	Length=82
TLODMA:    Output lpszData= "Conference call questions"	Length=25

TLODMA: ODMNewDoc (lpszDocId=0x3d0f14be, dwFlags=0x10, lpszFormat=0x354fd55e, lpszDocLocation=0x0)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszFormat= "WordPerfect 6.0/6.1 (*.wpd;*.wpt;*.doc;*.wp)"	Length=44
TLODMA:    Output lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20

TLODMA: ODMSaveAs (lpszDocId=0x3d0f14be, lpszNewDocId=0x354fdbfa, lpszFormat=0x354fd4d8, pcbCallback=0x319f102a, pInstanceData=0x354fd514)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20
TLODMA:    Input lpszFormat= "WordPerfect 6.0/6.1 (*.wpd;*.wpt;*.doc;*.wp)"	Length=44
ALL-IN-1 on node MONEY is version V3.1 with TLC V2.5, running File Cabinet Server version 4
TLODMA:    Output lpszNewDocId= ""	Length=0

TLODMA: ODMGetLeadMoniker (lpszDocId=0x3d0f14be, ppMoniker=0x354fd60e)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20
TLODMA:    ODMSTATUS = 1 (ODM_E_FAIL)

TLODMA: ODMGetDocInfo (lpszDocId=0x3d0f14be, item=2 {ODM_NAME}, lpszData=0x354fd57e, dataLen=128)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20
TLODMA:    Output lpszData= "DATA DOC"	Length=8

TLODMA: ODMOpenDoc (flags=0x11, lpszDocId=0x354fd442, lpszDocLocation=0x354fd0a2)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20
TLODMA:    Output lpszDocLocation= "C:\TEAMLINK\STAGING\FC000542.WPD"	Length=32

TLODMA: ODMSaveDoc (lpszDocId=0x354fd442, lpszNewDocId=0x3d0f14be)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\NEW1"	Length=20
TLODMA:    Output lpszNewDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\#LOCAL\[MY%020LOCAL%020FC]Kathy's%020Local%020Drawer\3490300000000"	Length=82

TLODMA: ODMGetDocInfo (lpszDocId=0x354fdbfa, item=2 {ODM_NAME}, lpszData=0x354fd566, dataLen=156)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\#LOCAL\[MY%020LOCAL%020FC]Kathy's%020Local%020Drawer\3490300000000"	Length=82
TLODMA:    Output lpszData= "DATA DOC"	Length=8

TLODMA: ODMGetDocInfo (lpszDocId=0x354fd506, item=4 {ODM_TITLETEXT}, lpszData=0x354fd506, dataLen=156)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\#LOCAL\[MY%020LOCAL%020FC]Kathy's%020Local%020Drawer\3490300000000"	Length=82
TLODMA:    Output lpszData= "DATA DOC"	Length=8

TLODMA: ODMSelectDoc (lpszDocId=0x49af1976, pdwFlags=0x354fd802)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39162
TLODMA:    Input *pdwFlags=0x0
TLODMA:    Output *pdwFlags=0x1
TLODMA:    Output lpszDocId= "::ODMA\TEAMLNKS\#LOCAL\[MY%020LOCAL%020FC]Kathy's%020Local%020Drawer\3490300000000"	Length=82

TLODMA: ODMGetODMInterface (riid=0x0, ppvObj=0x4bbf0342, pUnkOuter=0x0, pReserved=0x0, lpszAppId=0x4bbf0306, dwEnvData=0x298)
TLODMA:    Input lpszAppId= "WordPerfect"	Length=11
TLODMA:    FilecabSessId=39166

TLODMA: AddRef   Object=0x3dd71460  RefCount=2

TLODMA: Release  Object=0x3dd71460  RefCount=1
TLODMA:    Output *ppvObj= 0x3dd71460
TLODMA:    HRESULT value from ODMGetODMInterface = 0x0

TLODMA: AddRef   Object=0x3dd71460  RefCount=2

TLODMA: Release  Object=0x3dd71460  RefCount=1

TLODMA: ODMGetDocInfo (lpszDocId=0x354fd7a6, item=3 {ODM_TYPE}, lpszData=0x49af1df6, dataLen=156)  AppId="WordPerfect", FcSessId=39166
TLODMA:    Input lpszDocId= "::odma\teamlnks\#local\[my%020local%020fc]kathy's%020local%020drawer\3490300000000"	Length=82
TLODMA:    ODMSTATUS = 11 (ODM_E_DOCID)
DDE command: [read_new_mail]
DDE command: [read_new_mail]
CFCIOS reverting to slow list (61/34)
DDE command: [read_new_mail]

Thanks for the log Debbie.  Sorry it took me so long to get back in
this notes conference.

I think there are 2 problems at play here.  It's beens so long
since I've seen the ODMA code for TL 2.5, but I have a feeling it
wasn't quite so strict as the 2.7 code.  WP is lowercasing the
DocID string, which is wrong, and TL 2.5 may have let it get away 
with it.

Was this mail merge only working with local FC documents under
TL 2.5?  Did they ever try it with ALL-IN-1 documents?  The reason
I ask is I think the Local FC can tolerate its DocID being lowercased,
but I know that ALL-IN-1 FS server cannot.

I will look into this ASAP to if I can make a work-around.  But we
still need Corel to fix it.

Bob

Debbie,

I tested it and I think I've come up with a work-around, at least for
WP merge documents in a TL Local FC.  I made the TL ODMA code allow 
ODMA DocIDs to be lowercased.  It doesn't mean the will always work, 
but at least TL will not reject them so easy.

The updated DLLs are here:

   xanadu::user06:[stjean.public]wpmerge.zip

There's a readme.txt file in there that tells what to do.  Get this
to the customer and have them test it out.

Let me know if it works.

Bob

Debbie,

Did the customer try this out yet?

Bob

    Bob,
    
    I'm getting to the customer now.  I have been working on the call in
    the first half of my open list.  Now I'm getting to the back of the
    list.  I'll let you know.
    
    Debbie Giannetti