In an application I was extending, I wanted to use a Navigator component that worked very dynamically. It was to replace nested repeat controls. The Navigator has a RepeatTreeNode and it seemed a reasonable approach to nest them. So the structure I was building was: Navigator RepeatTreeNode (var=”level1″) whose children are BasicContainerNodes whose label is …
Yesterday I fought for quite some time trying to get Edit Boxes in a Form Table to go full width. It’s a starter database I’ve had for some time and converted from OneUI to Bootstrap. So I have some styles for setting the width of Edit Boxes, depending on whether I want small, medium or …
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 interest over the last three years. But FP8 is a marquee release for developers and app dev server users. Extension Library The most noteworthy …
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 triggered from client-side JavaScript and return a string response. The server-side code can also receive parameters. It’s covered from page …
JSON RPC Service, Component Tree Manipulation and OpenLogRead More »
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 based on a pull request I submitted. As ever, it’s great to see code I’ve suggested being taken into the project. Probably the biggest enhancement …
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 a bit of background if this is something you’ve needed to do but are not sure how to. My usual …
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 breakthroughs. While preparing some XPages training materials, I realised there was one cool use of a component’s binding property that is …
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 possible in favour of Repeat Controls. The View Panel I found very limiting both from the point of view of data …
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 only of use if you’re using the Extension Library, but to be honest virtually every XPages application I’m working on at …
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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 type (pp471-474). But there are two other content types. Google Search (xs:GoogleSearch) The first to cover is the Google Search content type (xs:GoogleSearch). Paul Hannan explained …