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New(ish) XPages Content Types and a Plea to IBM

Some have noticed that Computed Text controls provide additional content types. The XPages Extension Library book covers the Profiles VCard content type (pp474-7) and the IBM Sametime LiveNames content type (pp471-474). But there are two other content types. Google Search (xs:GoogleSearch) The first to cover is the Google Search content type (xs:GoogleSearch). Paul Hannan explained […]

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Extension Library Value Picker and extlib.dijit.PickerListSearch

Over the last few weeks I’ve been communicating with Paul Hannan about the Value Picker and different behaviour if extlib.dijit.PickerListSearch. With the Value Picker control, you have a number of options. The options can be provided from a list of hard-coded or computed values using the simpleValuePicker dataProvider. They can be provided from a view

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iNotes List View, iNotes Calendar View – Accessing The Object

Earlier today Julian Buss asked in a blog post about how to get the unid of a selected document in the iNotes List View. Even though I wrote that chapter in the Extension Library book, I was a little baffled myself. Even after I re-read what I’d written, I struggled to work out where I

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XPages Extension Library Book – Now Available

During Lotusphere 2011 Philippe Riand posted a now infamous tweet asking for members of the YellowVerse interested in writing an XPages book following up on the hugely successful Mastering XPages. It’s been a long time in the making, but now XPages Extension Library has been published, written by myself, Paul Hannan, Declan Lynch, Jeremy Hodge

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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Four: Server-Side Approach

I started off this tutorial series on mobile value picker with a discussion about some key differences between desktop browser development and mobile browser development. One of the key differentiators I discussed was connectivity. That was why this series has so far focussed on an approach that predominantly used Client-Side JavaScript and avoided interaction with

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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Three: Client-Side Approach Extended

From some feedback to yesterday’s post, that code works fine if all you want to do is create a new document. So, I’ve gone away and come up with some amendments and improvements. First of all, I’ve moved the New User button into the Page Heading control’s action facet. Again I use the Move to

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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part Two: Client-Side Approach

In Part One I talked in generic terms about the differing approaches when developing for mobile browsers compared to desktop browsers. Screen sizes make dialog boxes for pickers less desirable than in desktop browsers. Connectivity concerns mean typeahead and partial refresh functionality could perform worse on mobile devices and impact the user experience. Smaller resolutions

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XPages Mobile Controls and Value Pickers Part One: Mobile Development Approaches

Over the last week I’ve come across a couple of requests for some sort of typeahead or Name Picker or Value Picker for mobile. There was a question on Stack Overflow and another query came from an alternate discussion. I will outline my preferred option in my next post, but first I want to add

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Lotusphere in Review

Lotusphere is over for another year (and the perennial debate about the name also seems to have been put to bed – announcements have always said “Lotusphere 2013”). From the Domino standpoint it’s been another step on the road to the Vulcan vision and a reaffirmation of a new deployment model. We’ve seen in the

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