Lotus Notes 6.5.1 (or 7.0.1) and Office connection via DDE

Davide Dozza · Post by **Davide Dozza** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:13 am

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I use ubuntu 8.04 with wine 1.1.9.

I would like to get Office (2000 or 2003) and Lotus Notes (6.5.1 or
7.0.1) working together because of a Notes application with requires
Word acting as DDE server in order to generate documents.

After several tentatives with community packages I cannot get a working
Wine configuration. So I tried Bordeaux 1.4 that allowed me to install
Lotus and Office. I set up two configuration:
- - office2000 + Notes 6.5.1 which emulates Win98
- - office2003 + notes 7.0.1 which emulates Win2K

Each application seems to work singularly.

Win98 Env
- ---------
With Office 2000 (win98 env) Notes feeds Words via DDE. Passed data
substitute some fields in a Word template.
It seems that clipboard is involved in such data transfer and I received
an error message on that:
"Error Reading Metafile from Clipboard"
The process seems to proceed correctly but at the end, Word keeps the
file locked so Notes cannot print the doc.

I have found some regression issue about Notes but also with older wine
version I cannot solve the problem.

Win2K env:
- ---------
In this enviroment behavior is different.
When I try to access any Lotus application I receive the following error:
"Error loading USE or USELSX on module: *LSXODBC".
The error is different of previou. issue I submitted

It seems related to ODBC which are not available in wine office2003
environment. I tried to install MDAC 2.7 by applying this instruction
http://wiki.winehq.org/NativeOdbc without any result: I cannot find any
cliconf.exe.

Any suggestion?

Davide
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Post by **dimesio** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:54 am

Bordeaux is not supported here. You need to ask on their support forum.

Davide Dozza · Post by **Davide Dozza** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:44 am

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dimesio ha scritto:

Bordeaux is not supported here. You need to ask on their support forum

I thought I was running wine.....

Davide

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Duane.Barry · Post by **Duane.Barry** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:50 am

Seriously, I have a similar problem on LN 6.5.5, i get several "Error loading USE or USELSX on module: *LSXODBC" popups each time i open or close any document of a particular database (on which i don't have administartion privileges). This happens with every version of wine i ever tried and I thought Bordeaux was just a kind of.. wine (to drink i mean

). I installed MDAC 2.81 but nothing changed. Apart from the message boxes, all works just fine, so I'd be happy to get rid of such annoyance. Any clue?
Thanks

Davide Dozza · Post by **Davide Dozza** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:33 am

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Duane.Barry ha scritto:

Seriously, I have a similar problem on LN 6.5.5, i get several "Error loading USE or USELSX on module: *LSXODBC" popups each time i open or close any document of a particular database (on which i don't have administartion privileges).
This happens with every version of wine i ever tried and I thought Bordeaux was just a kind of.. wine (to drink [Laughing]).

A very good wine obviously! Even if I prefer italian ones like
Lambrusco, Sangiovese and Refosco....

I installed MDAC 2.81 but nothing changed. Apart from the message boxes, all works just fine, so I'd be happy to get rid of such annoyance. Any clue?

Try this:

http://wiki.winehq.org/NativeOdbc

In particular run wine with dll overrides

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="odbccp32,odbc32=n

As I also need Oracle ODBC so I have installed Oracle Client 8.1 which
ODBC drivers.

Everything seems to work. Office documents locking apart....

Davide

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Duane.Barry · Post by **Duane.Barry** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:48 am

Great! In particular the WINEDLLOVERRIDES did the magic.

Thank you very much e sempre Forza Bologna!

B.