Towards the end of last year we were asked about undertaking a Notes client plug-in development project. At the time my plug-in development experience was zero. Apart from a brief look at the source code of the Extension Library source code, my only other Eclipse experience was from about six years ago using the XML editors. And the sum total of my Java experience was four hours in evening classes about six years ago, that brief investigation of the XPages Extension Library and about two years experience of Server-Side JavaScript. I know that SSJS is not Java, but I list that in my ...
Today I picked up a query on the Notes and Domino 8.5 forum asking how to launch the first attachment on a document from a view panel in XPages. I had done something similar for BLUG in terms of adding content to a view panel and showing a thumbnail picture stored in a rich text field. I've done something similar in classic web development, using @AttachmentNames in a view and a quick look at the help confirmed that @AttachmentNames is one of the @Formulas available in XPages. I instantly offered a suggestion that included the following server-side javascript code to ...
