Anyone who used Domino Desiger 8.5 must have been looking forward to last Monday. There were blog posts teasing about the improvements in 8.5.1 in the build-up and constant tweets across Twitter on Monday and Tuesday about people installing 8.5.1. If you want to know about the many major improvements, a myriad of developers have already eulogised more …
Reflections on Domino 8.5.1: It's The Little Things That Count Read More »
First of all, apologies for not making further progress on the validation tutorials. Prior to a customer meeting, I was doing a final review of the mixture of client-side and server-side validation I implemented, and found problems. It looks like 8.5.1 may be able to address this, so watch this space. So as a fall-back …
XPages: Validation for Radio Buttons – 8.5.1 Issue Read More »
Yes, modifying the Mail template is to be avoided at all costs. But sometimes the customer needs changes. The scenario we had was a customer requiring CommonStore and DUCS design elements in the same template, and there was nothing available off the shelf. I had information about the design elements that needed adding, so it …
One of the functions I found customers often requesting was a view where something in the view selection formula or column formula required comparison to today’s date. But we all know @Today is not recommended in views because of the performance issues. This is a little agent I created to allow me to hard-code a …
In Part One we saw that the XSP.attachValidator function threw a javascript error, and that adding a required validator does not allow you to customise the message. However, with a little bit of scripting it is still possible to use XSP.attachValidator. Option Two: Add Scripted Validators First, a couple of basics. Whereas the required validator uses server-side …
XPages: Validation for Radio Buttons, Check Boxes and List Boxes: Part Two Read More »
I will be continuing the Validation Series articles, but I just came across this unexpected situation and thought I would blog about it. I tend to do most of my development for the Notes Client, so I sometimes hurt my brain with web-related issues. But I was doing some work on one of our applications and …
I recently had the need to add validation to radio buttons, check boxes and list boxes for an XPages app. Sounds straightforward, surely it’s just the same as for any other control. However, I was creating the Radio button group, Checkbox group and List Box controls for Domino documents in a repeat control. So for …
XPages: Validation for Radio Buttons, Check Boxes and List Boxes: Part One Read More »
Welcome I’ve always been a bit of a late developer (pardon the pun!), but I thought it was about time I started posting a blog. I’m a relative newbie at Domino Development compared to some – just nine years experience since R5. But after using a wide range of functionality and quite a bit of …
