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...
Read MoreToday 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...
Read MoreOne 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreOne 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreIf 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...
Read MoreSome 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...
Read MoreOver 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 options. The options can be provided from a list of hard-coded or computed values using the...
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