Sometimes a document doesn't appear where you expect it to in a particular view. Tracking it down can be a laborious task. But it doesn't have to be. There is a little tip that's not as widely known as it should be. It's nothing new, certainly dating back to R6 and probably even back to R1. If you highlight a document in view 1, hold down Ctrl while opening view 2, not only will view 2 open but it will open with the same document from view 1 highlighted. No more hunting through the view to try to locate it. If the ...
Some time ago I produced a video, on Intec's channel on youtube, showing how to use an XPage to create a live-text enabled widget. The beauty of this technique is it works in any 8.x Notes Client, it just needs a Domino 8.5.x server. I'm currently using the same technique to create a reporting sidebar panel for one of our customers. At the time I intended to add a second video showing how to create a live text recognizer so that you could right-click on a date to launch a floating window that displays documents based on that date. I was ...
After using XPages for some time, I am currently coding an interface for 7.0.x Notes Client to allow users to review and update multiple documents at once. Not surprisingly, I'm getting a bit frustrated at how easy it would be in XPages. Just add a repeat control, define the data, add one set of controls, and I'd be done. But in 7.0.x Notes Client it's not so easy, though I'm sure lots of you have done it before. I'm creating a table, with a certain number of rows. The users need to see all rows at once, so I can't set ...
The Lotus Notes In-Built Formula Tester
Here's a nice little tip if you want to check the output from an @Formula. I don't think it's documented anywhere, but I've been using it since R5 (I think) and it's come in quite useful. I'm sure that when I tried it in the new Eclipse client in R8, it didn't work. But I happened to try it yesterday in the 8.5.1 client, and it does work again. All you need is a text field, your @Formula and two fingers. I usually create a new memo and use the Subject field. Type or paste your formula into the text field, like ...
Embedded View from a Different Database – A Scalable Alternative
One of my standard interview questions is to pose a challenging real-life scenario I encountered a few years ago. The scenario posed is of a suite a databases developed for use on Notes Clients minimum release of 6.5.x and maximum release of 7.0.2. The requirement is for users to open a document in database A and view and access a small number of related documents in databases B and C. The related documents in databases B and C are restricted with reader access, and the solution needs to respect those security constraints. The additional challenge is that the solution needs ...
XULRunner and XPiNC
Not for the first time I came across something I had not been aware of before, and then had a second occurrence within a week. It's something I'll bear in mind for the future and, as such, I think it's worth sharing. The first occurrence was last week. I've long held it true that if you want an application broken, give it to end users - sooner or later they will break it in a way you hadn't even envisaged. So I should not have been surprised when I deployed a new XPages application for UAT and the testers highlighted an ...
Now and then I come across a bit of functionality I never knew about. Occasionally I'm embarrassed to find out it's been there for ages! An example of that is the Run in background client thread option for Notes agents. I only noticed this because of the clearer layout for Agent properties in Domino 8.5 and, coincidentally, a customer had recently expressed frustration at a lengthy agent running and tying up the Notes Client. I enabled the property for the agent. When saving the agent it gives the following prompt, but still allows MessageBoxes to be generated to the user.
