Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Domino is now available for download on the Passport Advantage site.   IBM Lotus Quickr 8.2 enhances end-user experience and streamlines infrastructure requirements Lotus Quickr services for Lotus Domino version 8.2 download document

Quickr 8.1 comes in 2 flavors Entry which is the Personal File Sharing, and Standard which included both.  You can toggle between install types via a notes.ini setting.  If you install Quickr Entry, your notes.ini will contain “QRD_InstallType=1”, and when you hit the home page it will look like this You can Upgrade to Standard by simply changing the ini parameter from 1 to 2 “QRD_InstallType=2” as documented here in the Quickr InfoCenter, when you hit the home page you will now see this, and have the option to toggle between Places and Files Now lets say you are implementing Quickr, but are not ready to implement the personal file sharing piece, you can remove the Places and Files links by changing the notes.ini entry to 3  “QRD_InstallType=3” so that you will now see this When changing “QRD_InstallType=” in the notes.ini a Domino restart is not required, simply restart HTTP and the change takes effect.

For those of you who have been following along at home (or trying to implement Quickr) you will have noticed that the hotfixes are coming fast and furious.  Along the way that has led to some negative comments around the forums and blogosphere, for example this forum post where the poster says

Four hot fixes in quick order following the release of 8.0.0.2 for Domino also does not give me great confidence in the product.

or a comment to this posting on the Quickr Blog

This is becoming disconcerting… talk about a product released a bit too early…

Well I disagree with both comments, and others that I have heard regarding the frequency of hotfixes, I say keep them coming.  What is happening here is not that the software was released too soon or without testing, rather that IBM has made it easier for all of us, by making these fixes available without first having to find the problem, open a PMR, and then have support provide the hotfix, which all this time was there and coded and could have avoided the problem in the first place.  The Notes from Lotus Support blog covered this topic in September, detailing the creation of Fix Central and the effort to make more hotfixes available this way (you can also note in the comments to the post that entitlement to support is not even a requirement in all cases to be able to download a hotfix). Another point to consider is that while there have now been six hotfixes for Quickr 8.0.0.2 (curiously numbered 1,2,3,4,6,7, did anyone ever see 5?) they have each been cumulative, so if you ignored them all and then ran in to a situation where you needed a fix, you got them all. Lets compare this what is going on in other Lotus Products, if you take a look at the Notes/Domino Fix list you can see that the Fixpacks only contain a limited number of fixes, my understanding is the Fixpacks are designed to fix the SPR that are generating the most support calls, not a bad strategy, but look at the numbers of fixes, even if you are running 7.0.2 with a fixpack there are still any number of 1000 known issues you can run in to (enter Murphy).   In additions the releases of versions or Fixpacks rarely if ever coincide with my organizations maintenance schedule, but if the hotfixes were distributed regularly via Fix Central I could at least apply fixes for the majority of known issues each time I have a window to perform maintenance.  There is obviously a little more complexity to doing this for a Domino server with all the various server components as opposed to Quickr but I am sure they could be worked out, for example limiting hotfix builds to only specific versions and fixpack levels. Today you can download hotfixes for Quickr, Quickplace (see Technote 4017549), and Connections on Fix Central.  There are options to choose Domino and Sametime in the product list, for Domino the Fixpacks are posted, and the Sametime 8.0 Hotfix is available. I will not complain about too many hotfixes for Quickr, my complaint is some of the other products need to do as good of a job at getting the fixes available so quickly and easily. Quickr 8.0.0.2 Release History Quickr 8.0.0.2  – October 29, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF1 – October 31, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF2 – November 21, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF3 – December 9, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF4 – December 10, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF6 – December 19, 2007 Quickr 8.0.0.2 HF7 – December 20, 2007

Chris gets on the board first on this one (Stuart what happened? 🙂 ) HF6 is out for Quickr 8.0.0.2 and available on Fix Central SPR Fixes in this release are (but the HF is cumulative so includes earlier fixes)

Stuart gets on the board first on this one, but right on the heels of HF3 is HF4 for Quickr available on Fix Central Fixed in HF4 Still no installer with these fixes, so having completed my HF3 upgrade about 4 hours ago, here I go copying files again.