If you’ve been developing Domino applications for any length of time, you will be aware of the Design Synopsis. Mainly you’ll be aware of it as a major selling point for third-party tools like those of TeamStudio or Ytria. If you’re new to Domino development with XPages, you’re not missing anything. With Notes 8.5 we […]
The Power of Eclipse: Domino Designer Search Read More »
Some time ago Nathan Freeman blogged about making Domino Designer work the way you want, lots of excellent productivity tips for improving performance of Domino Designer. One of these was to turn off Build Automatically. If you ever, ever, for any reason whatsoever, ever, ever, ever open a database that’s on a server in Domino Designer
Domino Designer Shortcuts, Build Project and Quirks Read More »
David Leedy recently posted a video on Domino Designer Tips and Tweaks, which is great. But sooner or later, you’ll move to a new PC or (god forbid!) have a serious problem with Domino Designer / Notes and really want to reinstall, to clean everything up. Then you’ve got to remember what settings you
Quick Setup / Restore of Domino Designer Read More »
While at EntwicklerCamp a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to share a couple of usability enhancements which seem to have slipped under the radar of some developers. The first is a useful resource for developers using XPages. As many will know, SVN is possible within Domino Designer now and from all the
Enhancing Your Lotus Experience – A Couple of Usability Tips Read More »
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 »
I came across a tweet yesterday evening about content assist for LotusScript in Domino Designer being slow. I committed the cardinal sin of assuming that the person in question already knew of the setting in the Preferences. Just in case the information, and more, is of use to anyone else – and because the Full
Domino Designer Content Assist Preferences (in case you're not aware of them) Read More »
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
Views Related to Current Date Read More »
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 »