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Find information about Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino notes.ini settings U to Z. For more notes.ini information, see the Notes/Domino Fix List.

NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, all variable names are spelled as one word (no spaces) with or without underscores.


Notes.ini settings: U
SettingDescriptionExampleComment
Update_Disable_Fulltext

Applies to: Servers (Domino 7 only)
Set this variable to 1 to disable fulltext indexing for the update server task only. Fulltext indexing will still work in the updall server task. There is no default setting.Update_Disable_Fulltext = value There is no UI equivalent.
Update_Disable_Views

Applies to: Servers (Domino 7 only)
Set this variable to a value of 1 to disable view updating for the update server task only. View updating will still work for the updall server task. There is no default setting.Update_Disable_Views = value There is no UI equivalent.
Update_Fulltext_Thread

Applies to: Servers (Domino 7 only)
Set this variable to 1 to use a separate thread to do full text indexing, so that long full text indexes don't delay view updates. By default, view updates and FT index updates are driven by the same thread. View updating will still work in updall. There is no default setting.Update_Fulltext_Thread = value There is no UI equivalent.
Update_Idle_Time

Applies to: Servers
Specify the number of seconds between update operations if the update server task is running. Default setting is 5.Update_Idle_Time = number of seconds There is no UI equivalent.
Update_Idle_Time_MS

Applies to: Servers (Domino 7 only)
Specify the number of milliseconds between update operations if the update server task is running. Default setting is 5.Update_Idle_Time_MS = number of milliseconds There is no UI equivalent.
Update_No_BRP_Files

Applies to: Servers
Determines whether or not the Fixup task creates BRP files. When set to 1, the Fixup task will not create a BRP file when it encounters an error in a view index. There is no default setting.Update_No_BRP_Files = value There is no UI equivalent.
Update_No_Fulltext

Applies to: Servers
Turns off full-text indexing on a server.
0 - Turns full-text indexing on
1 - Turns full-text indexing off

There is no default setting, although if this setting is omitted, full-text indexing is on.

Update_No_Fulltext = value There is no UI equivalent, although you can specify this setting in the NOTES.INI Settings tab of the Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory.
Updaters

Applies to: Servers
Specifies the number of Update server tasks that can run concurrently on the server. You must shut down and restart the server for this setting to take effect. There is no default setting, although if this setting is omitted, only a single Update task can run at a time.Updaters = number of tasks There is no UI equivalent, although you can specify this setting in the NOTES.INI Settings tab of the Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory.
Update_Suppression_Limit

Applies to: Servers
The Update Task (indexer) maintains two work queues - an immediate queue and a deferred queue. Deferred update requests are held for 15 minutes before they are processed so that requests to update the same database in that time are ignored as duplicate requests. Updater queues can grow if the server has a high update rate because of heavy database use. Use this variable to limit the size (number of requests) in the Update task's deferred requests queue. Default setting is 32767.Update_Suppression_Limit = value There is no UI equivalent, although you can specify this setting in the NOTES.INI Settings tab of the Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory.
Update_Suppression_Time

Applies to: Servers
The Update Task (indexer) maintains two work queues - an immediate queue and a deferred queue. Deferred update requests are held for 15 minutes before they are processed so that requests to update the same database in that time are ignored as duplicate requests. Updater queues can grow if the server has a high update rate because of heavy database use. Use this variable to specify the length of time that deferred update requests are held in queue.
  • n - length of time in queue in minutes
  • -n - (negative value) length of time in queue in seconds
The default value is 15.
Update_Suppression_Time = length of time There is no UI equivalent, although you can specify this setting in the NOTES.INI Settings tab of the Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory.
UpgradeApps

Applies to: Servers
Specifies custom upgrade applications for migrating users to Notes. Domino includes four upgrade applications for migrating users to Notes, one each for cc:Mail, Windows NT, Exchange, and LDIF. In addition, you can use UpgradeApps to add one or more custom upgrade applications (DLL files) to the Registration dialog. Use commas to separate multiple names. Specified files must reside in the Notes program directory. UpgradeApps does not affect the upgrade applications that ship with Domino. There is no default setting. UpgradeApps = file name1, file name2, file name3... There is no UI equivalent.
UseFontMapper

Applies to: Servers and clients
Determines whether the font mapper is used to guess the closest mappings between the font face name in a CGM metafile and the currently installed fonts on a Notes workstation.
1 (default) - Enables the font mapper
0 - Disables the font mapper
UseFontMapper = value There is no UI equivalent.
$Use_ST_IM

Applies to: Clients
Applies to Notes Application Plug-in. Specifies which Instant Messaging provider the Notes Application Plug-in (NAP) uses.
1 - Sametime Instant Messaging
0 (default) - Workplace Instant Messaging
$USE_ST_IM = value UI equivalent: This value can be set through the 'Instant Messaging Provider' desktop policy setting, or, in the User Preferences - Additional Options - 'Use IBM Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging'.

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Notes.ini settings: V
SettingDescriptionExampleComment
ViewExpnumber

Applies to: Servers and clients
Specifies parameters to be used by file exports done at the view level. There is no default setting.
  • value1 - Program name and file type
  • value2 - The following append options: 0 - No append option offered 1 - Append option offered through a dialog box 2 - Automatically write to a temporary file to avoid the 64K limit
  • value3 - Name of the export routine called
  • value4 - Not currently used
  • value5 - x File extensions to automatically select a file type in the File Export dialog box
ViewExpnumber = value1, value2... There is no UI equivalent.
View_Rebuild_Dir

Applies to: Servers
Specifies the directory where temporary files will be created for optimized view rebuilds. For example, to set the directory to my_view_rebuild_directory, enter the following line in the notes.ini file: View_Rebuild_Dir=c:\my_view_rebuild_directory There is no default setting, but in the absence of this setting, the system's temporary storage directory (specified by the TEMP or TMP environment variables) is used. View_Rebuild_Dir = path There is no UI equivalent.

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Notes.ini settings: W
SettingDescriptionExampleComment
WCT_IM_Use_Lookup

Applies to: Servers and clients
Applies to Notes Application plug-in. Specifies which method will be used for IBM Workplace instant messaging name resolution (converting Notes names to Internet names) in the Notes Application Plug-in (NAP).
1 - Domino Directory
0 (default) - IBM Workplace
WCT_IM_USE_LOOKUP = value This value can be set through the 'Primary instant messaging name resolution performed by' desktop policy setting.
WebAuth_Verbose_Trace

Applies to: Servers
Use this setting to troubleshoot problems with Web server user authentication and Web server group searches for database access verification. With the setting enabled, a Domino Web server records detailed information about specific Web user authentication sessions at the server console. Information includes authentication success or failure, group cache information used to verify Web users' membership in groups for database access control, and the search filters used to find user and group entries in an LDAP directory.
0 - disabled
1 - enabled

After you correct the problem, be sure to disable this feature (or remove the setting altogether), because it slows Web server performance. There is no default setting.

WebAuth_Verbose_Trace = value There is no UI equivalent.
WebSess_Verbose_Trace

Applies to: Servers
This setting should be used to troubleshoot both single server and multi-server (single sign-on) session-based authentication problems. When enabled, the setting allows a Domino Web server to record, at the server console, detailed information about specific Web session-based authentication sessions, such as unauthorized, unauthenticated, or session expiration information.
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled

After you correct the problem, be sure to disable this feature (or remove the setting altogether), because it slows Web server performance. There is no default setting.

WebSess_Verbose_Trace = value There is no UI equivalent.
Window_Title

Applies to: Servers and clients
Uses the specified text on the title bar. There is no default setting.Window_Title = text There is no UI equivalent.
WinInfoboxPos

Applies to: Clients
Determines the position of the InfoBox. Default setting is 85, 193.WinInfoboxPos = value1, value2 There is no UI equivalent.
WinSysFontnumber

Applies to: Clients
All CGM metafiles contain numeric font identifiers 1 through x, where x is the maximum number of fonts in an optional CGM font face name table. When the font mapper is disabled, these lines list the installed Windows system fonts to which the CGM font numbers are mapped. There is no default setting.WinSysFontnumber = value1, value2, value3 There is no UI equivalent.

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Notes.ini settings: X
SettingDescriptionExampleComment
XPC_Console

Applies to: Servers and clients
Displays the XPC console, which shows modem input/output (if logged).
1 - Displays the console
0 (default) - Hides the console
XPC_Console = value There is no UI equivalent.

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