10.10 Known Quirks and Limitations

The following are known quirks and limitations of this release of ConsoleOne. Most of these should no longer exist in future releases.

Quirk or Limitation

Workaround

eDirectory searches return only the first 1,200 objects.

If your search returns 1,200 objects and you suspect there are more, refine the search criteria to return fewer objects.

Jumping to an object in the right pane by typing its name doesn't work if there are more than 1,000 objects in the list.

Use Edit > Find to find the object, or use View > Filter to hide other object types and then type the object name.

Selecting large sets of eDirectory objects from a list of more than 1,000 objects doesn't work. (ConsoleOne retrieves the list of objects from eDirectory one chunk at a time and won't let you select across these invisible chunks.)

Select a smaller set of objects and repeat the operation as many times as needed to complete your task.

Applying a change to a multi-value property in eDirectory doesn't work if the total data size exceeds 48 KB. For example, deleting 1,000 usernames from a membership list would require about 48 KB if the average name were 24 characters. (Each character is two bytes.)

Apply the change in smaller chunks.

The count of eDirectory objects in the right pane (shown in the bottom right corner) is an estimate if there are more than 1,000 objects.

If your task involves more than 1,000 objects and an exact count is required, use NetWare Administrator.

Not all the values of a multi-value eDirectory property are shown if there are too many to fit in the RAM available to ConsoleOne.

Increase the available RAM (try closing all other programs) and redisplay the list. Currently, Novell eDirectory™ returns all the property values to ConsoleOne at once. A future eDirectory release will return them one chunk at a time.

Property names in lists are always shown in English. (ConsoleOne reads them directly from the eDirectory schema, which is in English only.)

If this prevents you from completing your task, go to the Novell Web site and submit an enhancement request. In the meantime, use NetWare Administrator to complete your task.

Restricting a user's volume space or a folder's size doesn't work on an NSS volume.

The ability to restrict space on an NSS volume will be added in a future release. NetWare Administrator doesn't have this capability either.

Generating and printing reports doesn't work if ConsoleOne is running on a non-Windows* computer.

Run ConsoleOne on a Windows computer with at least 128 MB RAM.

Most customizations to ConsoleOne views aren't saved across sessions. One exception is that customizations to object property pages (such as reordering and hiding pages) are saved.

For details, see Section 2.5, Customizing Views.

When running ConsoleOne on Linux, you can't enter more than a couple of values at a time in multi-value fields.

This is a problem with Java on Linux and will be fixed in a future release. For now, you must enter a couple values, close the properties, reopen the properties and enter a couple more values, and so on.

When running ConsoleOne on Solaris, if you click a link or menu option to go to a URL in a Web browser, the action fails if Netscape isn't installed and added to the system's PATH environment variable.

Install Netscape and add the directory where the Netscape executable file is located to your system's PATH environment variable.

When running ConsoleOne on NetWare with lots of ConsoleOne snap-ins installed, you might receive the following error:

An attempt was made to open or create a file that is already open. An error occurred reading the data from NDS. Some data may be incorrect or incomplete.

The server console then displays the following error:

Station # file lock threshold exceeded. Total violations #.

When trying to run ConsoleOne on a NetWare server where lots of snap-ins are installed, ConsoleOne will eventually run out of file lock resources on the server. The solution is to increase the file lock resource on the NetWare server.