A Host of XPages and Dojo Resurces
Two and a half years ago when I started working with XPages, there was a relative paucity of support materials. Declan Lynch’s 50-odd introduction was a god-send as were blog posts from John Mackey and...
View ArticleUsing The Update Site: Object Variable Note Set
Tonight I installed the latest version of the Extension Library, or tried to. I installed it into Domino Designer first, then, after the restart, tried to import it into the Update Site template. But...
View ArticleUpgrade Pack 1 Has Arrived
In a busy week for IBM, Notes/Domino Upgrade Pack 1 has shipped today, as announced by Ed Brill. The upgrade pack is important for a number of reasons: For customers requiring officially IBM-supported...
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Lotusphere in Review
Lotusphere is over for another year (and the perennial debate about the name also seems to have been put to bed – announcements have always said “Lotusphere 2013″). From the Domino standpoint it’s been...
View ArticleXPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part One: Mobile Development Approaches
Over the last week I’ve come across a couple of requests for some sort of typeahead or Name Picker or Value Picker for mobile. There was a question on Stack Overflow and another query came from an...
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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Two: Client-Side Approach
In Part One I talked in generic terms about the differing approaches when developing for mobile browsers compared to desktop browsers. Screen sizes make dialog boxes for pickers less desirable than in...
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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Three: Client-Side Approach...
From some feedback to yesterday’s post, that code works fine if all you want to do is create a new document. So, I’ve gone away and come up with some amendments and improvements. First of all, I’ve...
View ArticleXPages Mobile Control and Value Pickers: NotesIn9 Edition
To support the tutorial on Mobile Controls and client-side value pickers I created a video, which David Leedy has kindly published on NotesIn9. If you would like to see the full video, follow the link...
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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Four: Server-Side Approach
I started off this tutorial series on mobile value picker with a discussion about some key differences between desktop browser development and mobile browser development. One of the key differentiators...
View ArticleXPages Extension Library Book – Now Available
During Lotusphere 2011 Philippe Riand posted a now infamous tweet asking for members of the YellowVerse interested in writing an XPages book following up on the hugely successful Mastering XPages. It’s...
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iNotes List View, iNotes Calendar View – Accessing The Object
Earlier today Julian Buss asked in a blog post about how to get the unid of a selected document in the iNotes List View. Even though I wrote that chapter in the Extension Library book, I was a little...
View ArticleExtension Library Value Picker and extlib.dijit.PickerListSearch
Over the last few weeks I’ve been communicating with Paul Hannan about the Value Picker and different behaviour if extlib.dijit.PickerListSearch. With the Value Picker control, you have a number of...
View ArticleNew(ish) XPages Content Types and a Plea to IBM
Some have noticed that Computed Text controls provide additional content types. The XPages Extension Library book covers the Profiles VCard content type (pp474-7) and the IBM Sametime LiveNames content...
View ArticleTwo Java Libraries To Know for XPages Development
If you’re writing Java for your XPages applications (and Java tends to be my predominant language for application logic now), there are a couple of libraries well worth being aware of. The first is...
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Getting “Awesome” Category Icons in Data Views
The Data View is an extremely powerful control and the standard view control I use now. That’s some statement considering that prior to the Extension Library I avoided the View Panel as much as...
View ArticleA Cool Use for Component’s Binding Property
A few months ago Tim Tripcony blogged about a component’s binding property which was followed up with a NotesIn9 episode. On Tim’s blog, Jesse Gallagher asked if it had led to any cool app-structuring...
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XPages Dialog Control and Partial Refreshes
One of my colleagues has been working on an XPages application and, because of other requirements, was creating his own modal dialog for taking action on a particular entry in a view. First, it’s worth...
View ArticleXPages Extension Library 14
The latest release of XPages Extension Library hit OpenNTF earlier this week, release 14 for 9.0.1. In addition to Bluemix-related enhancements, there have been some notable enhancements to the pickers...
View ArticleJSON RPC Service, Component Tree Manipulation and OpenLog
One of the parts of the XPages Extension Library I’ve not used extensively is a component under the Data Access category called Remote Service – the JSON RPC Service. This allows server-side code to be...
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Domino and Notes Feature Pack 8
Today Notes and Domino Feature Pack was released. It’s good to see a developer-heavy release finally delivered. Apart from the Extension Library on OpenNTF, developers have had little to engage their...
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