Based on your landscape or project setup you might have more than one Alloy landscape in your company. A good idea is to use one and the same Lotus Notes client in order to access multiple Alloy landscapes. But simply setting up a new Location in Lotus Notes isn't quiet sufficient to switch between Alloy landscapes. 

 

In order to switch between two (or even more) Alloy landscapes you first have to make sure to create a Location document for each of the landscapes.

Make sure to enter the username, user ID file, Domino mail domain etc. for the new landscape.

After creation of the new Location document, shut down your Lotus Notes client.

 

As the Alloy client installation adds two entries in your notes.ini file, we've to do some minor modifications in there.
Open the notes.ini file, which is placed in the installation folder of your Lotus Notes client, in your favourite text editor.

Delete the two entries that start with

• $NDERPMDWS_URL
• $NDERPMID

from your notes.ini file.

 

Before we can restart the Lotus Notes client, we've to change one additional file in the file system.
From your Lotus Notes installation folder, open the framework/rcp subfolder,

where you can find the plugin_customization.ini file.

Open it in your favourite text editor and edit the following entry:

• com.ibm.nderp.client/NDERPMDWS_URL

Replace the old Alloy server entry with the new Alloy server entry.

Example:
com.ibm.nderp.client/NDERPMDWS_URL=http[s]://<AlloyDominoServer>:<AlloyDominoHTTPPort>/NDERPws.nsf/MetaDataService?openwebservice

 

Start your Lotus Notes client. The value found in the plugin_customization.ini file, will automatically be sourced to the notes.ini file to recreate the two entries we deleted in the prior step.

Note: Switching between Alloy landscapes (as well as switching users in one landscape) requires a restart of the Lotus Notes client.

Note: You might put those steps mentioned here in a small script to automate the landscape switch.