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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, […]
@ThisName and The Power Of Repeat Controls Read More »
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
The Lotus Notes In-Built Formula Tester Read More »
Hot on the heels of attending a very interesting presentation skills seminar, I got notification over the weekend that I had been accepted to speak at BLUG (Belux Lotus User Group) on 30th March. My session is entitled XPages From A Different “View”-point and here’s the abstract: With repeat controls and data tables you can
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At the moment I’m reviewing some older databases to look for performance improvements. Some leap from the screen, like changing GetNthDocument for GetFirstDocument and GetNextDocument in script, removing unnecessary sorting, removing private views that had been created for support purposes. Much of what I’ve been looking at is based on the whitepaper article by Andre
View Optimisation – A Cautionary Tale or When Children Can Help You Read More »
Earlier this month Tim Clark invited me to take part in The X Cast with himself, David Leedy of Notes in 9, and Stephan Wissel. The podcast is now available here. It was an enjoyable experience – more of a chat with friends because I’ve met Tim on a few occasions during my time at Intec, not least
Intec, The X Cast and The XPages Blog Read More »
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
Embedded View from a Different Database – A Scalable Alternative Read More »
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
XULRunner and XPiNC Read More »
A few weeks ago one of my colleagues was having a problem with the Date Time Picker control in an XPage. You can see an example here. Whenever he clicked the calendar icon, the form refreshed immediately, before a value could be selected. After further investigation, this was happening only on Internet Explorer, but not
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As I said in Part One, this series came about through an awareness of dojox charting and a desire to investigate its suitability to replace our current third-party solution. At the time I was not aware of NotesReconn on OpenNTF, which recently won second place in the TeamStudio Spotlight awards, and that’s definitely on my radar now
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Six: Appendices Read More »
A few years ago, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn were not around. Not many of us could have predicted how pervasive the social technologies have become not only online, but also in our daily lives. From 3Q 2008 to 3Q 2009, IBM’s social collaboration software install base grew by 34 percent. This growth is representative
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