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VariableResolvers: What They Are, How To Use Them, Why To Use Them

As I have often said, one of the things I like about XPages is that you can always learn more and enhance your skills. The learning curve is steep at times, but there are aspects you can add on at a later stage. One of those is VariableResolvers. Like so many Java constructs, the terminology […]

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XPages Mobile Controls: Mobile Value Picker Project

Over the weekend, as part of the third XPages contest on OpenNTF and based upon the series on this blog, I contributed the Mobile Value Picker project to OpenNTF. Niklas Heidloff has written a great blog post about the project and also recorded a video demonstrating the control. The control allows you to use a

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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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