At ILUG I attended Paul Calhoun’s excellent session “Using XML and RDBMS Data Sources in XPages”. The XML element of the session built upon articles Paul had contributed to The XPages Blog and the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development Wiki. Over the last few days I’ve been experimenting with various methods of using XML …
Using Security-Restricted XML as an XPages Data Source Read More »
As I mentioned on This Week in Lotus last week, I’ve been working on a submission to OpenNTF. In fact I’ve had it pretty much ready to go for months now, I just never got round to submitting it and the topic of OpenNTF on This Week in Lotus gave me the opportunity I needed to …
New Custom Control Project Contributed to OpenNTF Read More »
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 …
This follows on from two previous articles where I outlined what became evident from the oneui themes, ways to reference server-based resources from XPages. Those articles (Part One and Part Two) concentrated on images, the most useful resource. Like many developers, at Intec we have a suite of databases with resources (some images, css files, …
XPages: Accessing Server-Based Resources – External Database Read More »
When I first started on XPages last year, one of the big benefits was that virtually anything can be computed. When you do so, you get the option to use three languages: Expression Language (EL), Server Side Javascript (SSJS) or Custom. I immediately started using Server Side Javascript, but the others were a bit of a mystery. If …
Breaking the Language Barrier: The Rosetta Stone of XPages Languages Read More »
Over the last week I’ve been rather busy including some XPages functionality in an existing Domino web application, and as an example I wanted to explain why I chose XPages, some steps I took and the main challenge I encountered. XPages suited for this because: We wanted the available documents to change depending on selections, …
There has been huge discussion over the last week on the future of Domino and how to maximise the power of the platform in the eyes of senior IT executives. That XPages is and should be part of that future, I am convinced. But recent discussions I have had, comments I’ve seen on the blogs …
What is XPages? A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing Read More »
XPages has received a lot of press over the last two years and at Intec we’ve already completed a number of projects using XPages, either as components of the application or the whole application. To support our customers who are investigating the benefits of XPages we have written a white paper to give a balanced assessment of the benefits …
New XPages White Paper: Maximising the Benefits of Lotus Domino 8.5.x with XPages Read More »
Following on from the tip I gave at the end of March, as well as view icons/action button icons accessible from the icons folder and images that come with the oneuiv2 themes, I recently also wanted to use images that co with the core oneui theme, that are in the java subfolder of /domino. As …
A useful tip for server-based images from an XPage Read More »
If you’re attending Lotusphere Comes to You in London (tomorrow, 13th April) or Edinburgh (Thursday, 15th April) feel free to drop by the Intec stand. Our main points of focus are version-to-version upgrade supported by our iMigrate tool and XPages. The XPages part of our rolling presentation will include a video of the dashboard that …