Posts Tagged ‘8.5.2’

First of all, thanks to Declan Lynch for reading this blog post when I accidentally, foolishly corrupted it all! Thanks to him, I'm able to quickly replace it. One of my strengths is a good memory, which helps when other developers ask a question. It means I can often vaguely remember reading something somewhere or developing some code that has relevance in a database somewhere, and with a bit of hunting I can find something that points them in the right direction. The difficulty is it's often not an exact answer, just pointing them in the right direction. One customer has purchased ...

This week I was invited to take part in This Week in Lotus, the main topic for which was the XPages Extension Library and OpenNTF. I would strongly recommend any XPages developer to listen to the podcast, it's one of the resources I use rigorously to keep me up to date on all things Lotus and I always learn something from the podcast. As part of the Domino managed beta program I was able to follow the articles on the XPages Extensibility API published to the Notes & Domino App Dev wiki in the summer. I have ...

Those who have followed my blog will be aware that I posted an article earlier this year about extending the Rich Text Editor. That showed that the Rich Text Editor used an extension of a dojo class, ibm.domino.widget.layout.DominoRichText, and could be extended by defining various dojoAttributes, for example fontName as Arial, extraPlugins as ["createLink","|"] to add a button to create a link and a separator. With 8.5.2, IBM introduced the CKEditor as the default Rich Text Editor instead of the ibm.domino.widget.layout.DominoRichText extension of Dojo. And, as I learned, that too can be extended, from the ...

With today's announcement of a release date for Domino 8.5.2, it seems the right time to review some of the features I've come to like in the closed beta. Some of them are just usability enhancements, others are functionality enhancements, and many are XPages enhancements. Before continuing, I must include the caveat that this article is based on the 8.5.2 Code Drop 5 beta, and that code is not guaranteed to be included in the Gold release due on August 24th. Help The quality of the Help files in 8.5.2, particularly for XPages, has been widely criticised. The Help in ...