Yellow Collaborates

Not sure how many of us use YTRIA EZ Suite of tools. Most Lotus Notes folks would swear by TeamStudio for sure, but YTRIA was a real pleasant discovery for me.

I was once faced with the dilema of “critical” information being lost. Read that as the highest security classification they had for it. We searched high and low in the application database and no trace could be found.

A quick search on this revealed YTRIA and the promise to unlock documents that you did not have READER rights to. Whoa..how is this possible thought I. But then decided to give it a shot. Much to my surprise with Manager access to the application, I could easily locate the missing document in YTRIA! The READERS field had gone corrupted due to improper coding. The developer had the field appending values every time the save was done and redundant values were being stored over and over until it reached the tipping point.

While my free copy did not allow recovery, I was quite amazed by the fact and even recommended this to the client. However, we failed short of recovering the document because it was not available on the standard tool list.

This tool is well worth the money spent and I would say should be in the armory for any Lotus Notes developer. YTRIA is the magic wand that can help you throw some pleasant surprises for your consumers!