Getting Creative With Domino Web Development

Am I 1 in a million? 1 in 500,000? How many Lotus Notes Admins and Developers are in Houston?

2010-10-21T08:33:00.000-05:00

Just curious about this, I only know of two others here in the Houston area, John Turnbow, and Paul T. Calhoun. Anyone work in this area? Any desire for a community meeting? I had lunch with Paul last month and it was great to meet someone local that understood what i was talking about.

I need some Beta Testers for ITANA v4, anyone interested?

2010-09-15T08:39:00.002-05:00

I am having a few issues with my new version of ITANA and i need some beta testers who would be willing to help me debug some of the issues. If you are interested and have Domino 8.5.2, please let me know, thanks

markthughes@gmail.com

Do you want to take your Xpage applications offline? Please help me get Xpage support in DOLS

2010-09-14T09:45:00.000-05:00

Would you like to take your xpages offline, easily, while keeping the domino security model intact? And when the user connects back online it would replicate back to the server?

I know you can do this with the notes client today, but why should you have to install a Notes client and have all the GUI options available to users if you are trying to only deploy a single application? ISV's and some other companies need this option so that they can deploy applications to partners or customers as needed without having to setup and support a notes client install.

If you would like to see feature implemented, please contact Peter undescore Janzen at us.ibm.com. ALso post your business case in the comments as well.

Also vote on the idea jam below.

Thanks for your help!!

I need help Sametime Experts, 8.5.1 questions inside

2010-09-13T08:18:00.000-05:00

1st question is can you install Sametime 8.5.1 on an 8.5.2 server?

If you can what is the correct download from passport advantage for the simple 1 server version of sametime, not the 3 server + websphere version?

Warning 8.5.2 SMTP spike psossible, 100% cpu usage and no mail routing

2010-08-28T16:59:00.000-05:00

Hotfix will be available Monday. It may have something to do with your spam gateway device. We use Ironmail. This cant be good.....

Xpages: Validation for a field, hopes this helps someone

2010-08-25T15:27:00.007-05:00

Today i needed to do some validation on an Xpages form.

The scenario
I had a field, it had typeahead enabled on an Xpage. This view has 6000 documents so a combo box was out of the question. I didnt really want to do a pick list either since most people know the number they want in the first place. But i needed a way to figure out if the value in the field existed in the view.

So i looked at adding a custom validator, couldn't seem to make that work. So i looked on the wiki and a few other places and discovered this. Create a validateExpression validator.

In the expression field you need to add your code to calculate to true or false. Syntax should be something like

return var1 == var2

Mine looked like

account1 = @Trim(@Text(document3.getItemValueString('job')));
chargetype = document3.getItemValueString('jobaccount');
db1 = new Array("notes1", "Applications\\viewpoint.nsf")
var iffound = ""
if(chargetype == 'Job')

{ iffound = @Trim(@Text(@DbLookup(db1,"Project Import",account1,1)));
return account1 == iffound
}
else
{return (@IsMember(account1, @DbColumn(db1,"Accounts7",1))!= 0)
}

Then here is the part i didn't get from the wiki post, You need to add a DisplayError control next to the field you are validating. Then set that displayerror to show error messages for that field you are validating. It will not pop up like the simple can not be 0 or can not be empty messages you get from the default validators.

Anyways I hope this helps someone else.

Video: My Tasks (ITANA) V4.0 for iPhone and Android delivers offline read/write via HTML5 and IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 XPages

2010-08-23T11:47:00.000-05:00

ITANA V4.0 has been completely rewritten to work offline for editing and adding tasks. As a great side benefit, ITANA opens quickly(sub 2 seconds) and moving between tasks is very very fast(sub second). Since this update requires Domino 8.5.2(for the cache manifest), it will be released shortly after it is available later this month. Please let me know what you think

My Tasks (ITANA) V4.0 for iPhone and Android delivers offline read/write via HTML5 and IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 XPages

2010-08-12T09:58:00.000-05:00

ITANA V4.0 has been completely rewritten to work offline for editing and adding tasks. As a great side benefit, ITANA opens quickly(sub 2 seconds) and moving between tasks is very very fast(sub second). Here are a few screen shots, notice that they were taken from airplane mode(offline for you non iPhone users). Since this update requires Domino 8.5.2(for the cache manifest), it will be released shortly after it is available later this month. Video will be posted in the next few days. Please let me know what you think

xpages: In an effort to make mass emails from IBM less sucky looking

2010-07-22T09:08:00.008-05:00

Since i complained about how bad the IBM emails from supoort looked, i decided to make an easy way for people to create html emails.

I created a simple xpages application where you paste in your html(may i suggest something based on OneUI) into a field, preview it, and then send it to yourself as an html email( so you can then forward it to whoever), It took 30 minutes.

Here is the form, i copied the source html from planet lotus and pasted into the html field. Of course not all images are full paths, so they are broken, but could be fixed easily.

The Xpage source Code :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core" style="padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-top:10px">

<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="document1" formName="main"></xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>
<xp:table style="width:100.0%">
<xp:tr>
<xp:td>
<xp:button value="Close" id="button4"><xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>
<xp:openPage name="/view.xsp"></xp:openPage>
</xp:this.action></xp:eventHandler></xp:button>
<xp:button id="button2">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[Save & Close]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>

<xp:actionGroup>
<xp:saveDocument></xp:saveDocument>
<xp:openPage name="/view.xsp"></xp:openPage>
</xp:actionGroup>
</xp:this.action></xp:eventHandler></xp:button>
<xp:button id="button3" value="Send"><xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>
<xp:executeScript>
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[#{javascript:
doc1 = database.createDocument()
doc1.appendItemValue("Form","Memo")
var3 = document1.getItemValueString('html')
body = doc1.createMIMEEntity()
subject = body.createHeader("Subject")
subject.setHeaderVal(document1.getItemValueString('subject'))

stream = session.createStream()
stream.writeText(var3)

body.setContentFromText(stream, "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1", 0)

doc1.appendItemValue("SendTo", document1.getItemValueString('creator'))
doc1.send()
}]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:executeScript>
</xp:this.action></xp:eventHandler></xp:button>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
</xp:table>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:label value="Mail To:" id="label3" style="font-weight:bold"></xp:label>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:inputText id="inputText1" value="#{document1.creator}" disabled="true"><xp:this.defaultValue><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Name('[CN]', session.getEffectiveUserName())}]]></xp:this.defaultValue></xp:inputText>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:label value="Subject" id="label2" style="font-weight:bold"></xp:label>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:inputText id="inputText2" style="width:400px" value="#{document1.subject}"></xp:inputText>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:label value="Paste in HTML" id="label1" style="font-weight:bold"></xp:label>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:inputTextarea id="inputTextarea1"
style="width:610.0px;height:326.0px" value="#{document1.html}">
</xp:inputTextarea>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:button value="Refresh Preview" id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
</xp:eventHandler></xp:button>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:label value="Preview" id="label4" style="font-weight:bold"></xp:label><xp:br></xp:br>__________________________________________________________________________________________________
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:text escape="false" id="computedField1"><xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:'<div id = "test me">' + document1.getItemValueString('html')+ '</div>'}]]></xp:this.value></xp:text></xp:view>

Why customers think Lotus is Legacy Software!

2010-07-20T16:51:00.004-05:00

because they get emails like this from IBM about there products

Notice the 1995 era html table

Now here is an example from cdw, not the greatest but not bad either

New Blog Series - Taking Notes data offline(Add, Delete, Change) - HTML5

2010-07-06T13:18:00.006-05:00

I am starting this new blog series with the intent of showing how to take Lotus Notes data offline on mobile devices, and have them "Replicate" back to the server sending and receiving any changes that have been made.

For this example i will use the Lotus Notes Journal/Notebook or whatever we are calling it these days, but we will not modify that template. Instead we will create a new database that will act as a proxy on the users behalf of locating and "Replicating" the journal file for the user who is logged in. It will store the data locally on the mobile device in a SQLite database.

When i am finished with this project my intent is to post the resulting code on OpenNTF.

So one caveat to begin with, and it really sucks, You must have Domino 8.5.2 beta to make this work. We need to use the cache manifest file which is an upcoming feature in 8.5.2.

Here is a link to the default database, there is way too much formatting, and that is not what this blog series is about.

Beginning Database

This database contains an xpage, that is formatted really for any device. It will size to whatever size you need it. The xpage name is MyJournal.xsp. BTW use Google Chrome or Safari for correct rendering.

In the next post i will show how we will get our data from the journal file.

Lazy Admins and Notes Apps -' feed them to the wood chipper'

2010-06-30T08:48:00.007-05:00

I am frustrated. I get emails like this all the time.

Hi
Mark,
Our Lotus Notes administrators block access to posting a new database on email server, such as the ITANA DB mentioned in your product write up....
I am using eProductivity template v2... and trying to get To Dos onto my iPhone.
Is there some way to run this locally or change mail template to include ITANA so I can update my iPhone?
Any other suggestions?

It reminds me of a video I watched yesterday. I did not create the video and have no idea who did.

Warning Language alert!

XPages Challenges with multiple data sources on one page, a UI example

2010-06-18T07:29:00.010-05:00

I have a new project to write an expense report application. The requirements are a little different than normal, the users do not want dialog boxes for entries and they dont want to leave the page.

So i created an Xpage that is the expense form, it has the usual header information that this company likes. Then it has a data table to show the entries for each expense item. And it also has a form to enter new items in. Inside the data table is another form to edit that line item. This approach might look better in a grid format(excel style), but i have too little horizontal space for all my info. And of you course you could set edit mode to onclick of the row. This vertical style formatting of this app is because it will also be viewed for approval on iPhones.

Since the main expense form is open and in edit mode(document1 datasource) i leave all the settings for it alone.

For the form(document3 datasource) that actually enters new data in, i have to make some changes. In the properties of the panel that holds the data source for document3, i need to change the scope for the data to "request". That way after i save that document it sets that data source to a new document ready to be saved.

For the inside the data table edit form, i have to change some things as well. This datasource(document2), has to have the property "ignore request parameter", in the all properties panel under the datasource, set to true.

Why, i am not too sure, this data source is set to a document computed to edit document, with a computed docid, which is set by the button to edit that line item in the datatable. It all works now, it was just a little tedious finding out how to make it that way.

SQL Lite replication engine for HTML5(iPhone & Domino Data)

2010-06-01T07:37:00.003-05:00

I have been working on ITANA to give it the ability to edit and add and delete records while offline. To do this i am using SQL lite as the data store for the iPhone or HTML5 enabled device. Then i "Replicate" it to the notes server via xhr requests.

Please help me with my logic, does this outline work? Am i missing something? What might be better?

Sql lite Replication engine

1. Get all documents from notes db and unids

2. For each notes doc check if local record exist

3. If local record exists check the last updated time of local record
and notes doc, if server doc is newer update local record, if the
local record is newer update the server record.

Check the delete status on the local record, if set to delete, delete
the server record and remove the local record.

4. If local record does not exist create one

5. Get all local records and unids.

6. Check if they exist on server, if local record has unid = new doc,
create doc on server and update the local record with real unid, else
delete the local record because it has been deleted on the server.

Thankful for freedom

2010-05-31T14:13:00.001-05:00

I am truly blessed, on this day i remember all who have served our great Country in the cause of liberty and freedom. From their sacrifices we are given freedom here on Earth, so that we might have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My Lord and Savior shed his blood and gave His life, so that who ever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life, and that we may be free from the bondage of sin forever.

So it is up to us as free men and women, to honor these sacrifices with our lives- how we choose to live each day is our testament to what we have been given.

Let us make them proud.

HTML 5 Cache Manifest and dynamic data (Xpages)

2010-05-18T12:32:00.002-05:00

So cache manifest files are a very useful tool. With dynamic data though they are a little tough to work with.

For example:

You want to cache some images and script libraries local, as well as css, and some other files. It does this great, but it will also cache the html generated by the xpage the first time it was opened.

The problem: the view information changes, and every time you open the xpage you get the initial html and wrong view information.

The first thing you need to do is set a partial refresh on the view info after load. But that is only half the battle, as maybe you have preferences for a theme, and the preference comes from a profile document. So the theme will not change.

The solution: Update the cache-manifest file which will make the page re-cache itself.

So how do you do this for every time a page is refreshed?

Well Notes makes it easy - you make a notes page. On the page properties tell it content type = text/cache-manifest. Name it something like my.manifest. Then on the version line of the manifest you enter in computed text set to @now. You will always have a new manifest that you can use to update your local cache with.

Domino 8.5.2 & Cache Manifest, not just for offline use

2010-05-04T09:38:00.003-05:00

Over on Niklas Heidlhoff's blog is an example of how to use a cache-manifest file and how to make an offline app with X-Pages. This is great news for mobile developers.

But what if you don't want or need the app to be offline? What advantages do you get with a cache manifest?

Speed!

Lets say you have a mobile app(or any Xpages app), it has some rather large style sheets, script libraries, and images. This is all static content, simply cache this content locally then the application is local and only connects to the server when it gets or posts information to the Notes database.

I have added many images and features to ITANA for an upcoming release. Knowing that the cache manifest would be supported in version 8.5.2, i use allot more images and css than i had previously.

Before I added the cache manifest file, it would take about 20 seconds to open this Xpages app from my iPhone, now it takes less than 5, and part of that is the iPhone opening a new Safari instance!

And here is an example cache manifest to show how to leave network connectivity in place for everything but your resources that you keep local.

CACHE MANIFEST

#version: 0.0.15

tasks4.css

tasks4.js

trashcan.png

uinext.js

ajax-loader.gif

runbuild2.png

attach.png

spinningwheel.js

spinningwheel.css

sw-alpha.png

sw-button-cancel.png

sw-button-done.png

sw-header.png

sw-slot-border.png

tasks.js

iscroll.js

home.png

wood.png

zengarden.jpg

checkbox.png

newwindow.png

cal.png

category.png

#local dojo resources

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dojo/dojo.js

/domjava/xsp/theme/webstandard/xsp.css

/domjava/xsp/theme/webstandard/xspLTR.css

/domjava/xsp/theme/webstandard/xspSF.css

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/contents.css

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/skins/lotus/icons.png

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/skins/lotus/images/arrowdown.gif

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/skins/lotus/images/toolbar_start.gif

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/skins/lotus/images/toolbarSprite3.png

/xsp/.ibmxspres/domino/ckeditor/skins/lotus/images/toolbarSprite.png

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/dijit.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/Common.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/layout/ContentPane.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/layout/TabContainer.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/layout/AccordionContainer.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/layout/SplitContainer.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/layout/BorderContainer.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/form/Common.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/form/Button.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/form/CheckBox.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/form/RadioButton.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/form/Slider.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/Tree.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/ProgressBar.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/TitlePane.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/Calendar.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/TimePicker.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/Editor.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/Dialog.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/images/titleBar.png

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/images/spriteArrows.png

/domjava/xsp/theme/webstandard/xspFF.css

/domjava/xsp/theme/webstandard/xsp.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/tundra.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dijit/themes/tundra/images/accordionItemHover.gif

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/dojo/io/iframe.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/domino/widget/layout/DominoRichText.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/xsp/widget/layout/RichText.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/xsp/widget/layout/nls/RichText_en-us.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/domino/widget/layout/nls/DominoRichText_en-us.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/xsp/widget/layout/xspClientDojo.js

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/domino/widget/layout/css/domino-default.css

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/ibm/xsp/widget/layout/nls/xspClientDojo_en-us.js

NETWORK:

#a whitelist of paths request can be made to for more dojo and other resources not listed above

/xsp/.ibmxspres/

/domjs/dojo-1.4.1/

/domjava/xsp/

Make Lotus Notes a killer app in your company!

2010-04-27T07:42:00.004-05:00

Most of us know, Lotus Notes is more than just email, contacts, and calendaring. It is the added value of custom applications and third party solutions that really make Lotus Notes a very powerful and effective tool.

A very easy way to add a great deal of value to Lotus Notes is eProductivity. Everyone wants to be more productive, everyone wants there employees to be more productive. So when David Allen, one of the world's leading authorities on personal and organizational productivity is giving a free seminar, and showing how you can use his methods in Lotus Notes, it is something you can not pass up. Learn how you can make Lotus Notes an indispensable application in your company.

Here is more information about this event

On April 28th, GTD® creator, David Allen, and eProductivity™ creator, Eric Mack, will present a highly-anticipated Webinar:

"Getting Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes"

Do you want to go home at the end of the day with an empty inbox? Would you like to tackle your week with the confidence of knowing you’re being as productive as you can possibly be?

On April 28th, David and Eric will show you how. Register Now

David's book, “Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,” and his GTD methodology have revolutionized the way millions of working men and women tackle their work. His system turns achieving control over commitments into a daily reality.

Many people don't know that for the past 17 years, David has used Lotus Notes as his personal organization system. In that time, he and Eric have identified best practices for using Lotus Notes to get things done.

Sign up for this special event and let David and Eric share with you the secrets of "Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes". If you use Lotus Notes - with or without eProductivity - this is the event for you.

The cost is free but space is limited, so don't wait to sign up!

Webinar attendees will receive an eProductivity Reference application bundled with many great GTD resources from David's library.

Webinar Details
Date: April 28, 2010
Time: 10:00AM - 11:30AM PST
Cost: Free

Please share the webinar information with any Lotus Notes users who would appreciate having more time & less stress!

P.S. The Twitter hashtag for this event is #GTDLN. Happy tweeting!

This webinar is sponsored by ICA.Com, Inc., creators of eProductivity, the ultimate productivity software for IBM Lotus Notes.

eProductivity™ is a trademark of ICA.COM, Inc. "GTD®" and "Getting Things Done®" are trademarks or registered
trademarks of The David Allen Company. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their owners.

iPad & X-Pages, a very early preview of ITANA on an iPad

2010-04-08T07:54:00.003-05:00

Here is a very early preview of ITANA on an iPad, and yes i know i don't yet have the dimensions perfect yet. If i actually owned an iPad it would be easier ;-), but for now the simulator will have to work.

Once i am finished, i will publish an iPad template like i did for the iPhone, that should allow you to just add you data sources and go.

I need to finish ui touch ups and get some better transitions, and tweek a few things. Please feel free to leave your comments on what would make it better, thanks

New transitions!(for those who did not like the fade in fade out)

Manage eProductivity Projects & Actions on your iPhone and Android

2010-03-30T08:14:00.003-05:00

I've been working with Eric Mack at eProductivity to develop a version of ITANA that will allow you to see all of your eProductivity Tasks and Reference database entries from your iPhone or Android device. This is just preliminary work for basic functionality like creating, viewing, and deleting Tasks and Reference entries. You can also view attachments as well.

What will you need to try this on your iPhone or Android device?

First, you will need to be an existing eProductivity customer and you will need to sign up for the beta program so that you can download the latest beta version 2.0.1.3 of eProductivity. ( Contact eProductivity for details). Once you have eProductivity Professional 2.0.1.3 or higher installed and running, you can add ITANA to the mix. You will need the latest version of ITANA, if you have an older version and you would like to upgrade, just drop me an email and i will send it to you right away. When you have both applications configured have will you be able to see the new functionality.

I am very excited to see where this goes. I welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Announcing mAddressBook for Android devices and iPhones

2010-03-05T09:53:00.005-06:00

mAddressBook is a mobile web application that allows users to get contact information out of the Domino Directory or a Notes CRM database.

It is great for users who have an iPhone or Android phone to have the ability to touch an icon beside a users name and have the phone dial that number. It also gives a touch to email link. On the iPhone you can map directions to the office location using the Google Maps application. It is simple to connect to your Notes CRM database to get that information mobile as well.

You can find out more at http://hughesconnect.com

ITANA 2.0 is now released, Video in Link!

2010-02-15T09:11:00.002-06:00

ITANA 2.0 is now shipping, here is a video of the new interface and features. For further information please vist http://hughesconnect.com

ITANA being demoed at MacWorld

2010-02-12T07:49:00.002-06:00

ITANA is being demoed by IBM at at Macworld Booth 1284.

Coming Soon...ITANA 2.0

2010-02-11T15:59:00.018-06:00

ITANA has been out for a little while now and it was time for some features to be added and face lift.

Face Lift

Here is the new "Your Task" page

There is now a header and background that stay visible when the panels are faded in and out.

The pager has now been improved for touch functionality as well as navigation information.

The "view" style has been updated for a cleaner look and feel. It now shows the title,the first 25 characters of the body, the due date, and an attachment indicator.

New Features

1. Sorting has been fixed to not require an FT index on the mail database for Tasks.

2. The journal can now be accessed from your mail file if you use iNotes, before only a roaming version of your journal could be used. ( Would love it if they synced like contacts!!!)

3. You now have a choice when you open an attachment, if you open it in the application itself it will open in an iframe. You can not zoom in or out with this option. Now you have the option to open it in a new window. This will leave the app(close it) and open the attachment in Safari, but this will give you the ability to zoom in and out with ease.

4. You can now do a FT search in the journal.

5. Decreased load time of the application.

Other Screen Shots

X-Pages on Android Video

2010-01-06T15:16:00.001-06:00

Just a short video, sorry about the quality, still trying to figure out the best way to get it on youtube.

Xpages on an Android Device?

2010-01-06T11:16:00.006-06:00

I was answering some email recently and was asked if ITANA was compatible for Android devices.

I knew Android used a webkit based browser just like the iPhone so i downloaded the sdk, which has a nice emulator and loaded up the website with my ITANA X-Page application. It seems to work very well, even the date scroll wheel.

Seems like this is a write once run on just about any mobile device type architecture, if only RIM would come out with a webkit based browser!!!!

Here are some pictures

Xpages: Free X-Page iPhone App Template

2009-12-07T10:34:00.003-06:00

Here is a link to an X-Pages iPhone app template that can help you format an X-Pages to fit on an iPhone and act similar to a native app. If you have any questions feel free to email me, thanks

X-Page iPhone Template

Snow in Houston! "That Al Gores Full of It Man!"

2009-12-04T09:52:00.004-06:00

For the second year in a row, first time in recorded history measurable snow in H-Town!

the quote in the title is referenced here

Xpages: Loading…. (images and masking)

2009-11-10T11:36:00.002-06:00

Sometimes for various reasons, clicking on links in in X-page, or refreshing a view or a page may take several seconds to complete. So that users do not keep clicking on the button, or think the browser is not working, i have added a “loading image” and a mask to show people that the page is working, just a little slow.

I hope someone shows me a better way to do this… but here is my attempt.

1. In the css file for the page add

div.loading {
   background-image: url(ajax-loader.gif);
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: center;
   background-color:black;
}

2. Add a JavaScript library and name it loading, then add these lines

dojo.require('dijit.Dialog')

function loading() {
   underlay = new dijit.DialogUnderlay({'class': 'loading'});
   underlay.show();
}
function stoploading(){
   underlay.hide()
   }

3. Insert the JavaScript library loading on the page under the resources section

Now to implement this in a button that does not do a “full update”

1. In the outline on the button expand the button and click on event handler, then clcik the all properties tab.

2. in the onStart event enter loading()

3. in the onComplete enter stoploading()

Now to implement this in a button that does a “full update”

1. In the onClick event, choose the client tab, then enter in loading()

Now to implement this in view column link

1. First we have to change how it open a document, click on the onClick event.

2. Create an action on the server side to execute a script.

3. set the script to:

doc = viewEntry.getDocument();
applicationScope.docid1 =  doc.getUniversalID();

4. Create another action to open a new page, put in the page name to open, then edit document, then document id should be computed to

applicationScope.docid1

5. On the Client tab, enter in loading()

All of these will produce a mask covering the whole screen with a loading image in the middle like

Xpages: Web Dashboards made easy, I Love X-pages!!

2009-11-06T07:41:00.003-06:00

On a recent project, a simple one at that, an executive wanted an overview dashboard to show totals from many different views on one page. I started thinking about how i would do this in the

Notes client...

I could make a form with computed fields and create an agent or query open LS code to get the values and set the fields values.

I could create computed fields and do it with formula language but what a pain that would be.

The old way on the web

I would to use a webquery open agent and set the values, or compute formula on the fields.

Xpages...

Well in X-pages i am allowed to create a computed field and use SSJS to compute the value. It is like having a computed field on a client based notes form and setting the value to LS, which of course you cant do.

i wrote three lines of code per field

db = session.getCurrentDatabase()

view1 = db.getView('On Site')

view1.getEntryCount()

or it could be like

db = session.getCurrentDatabase()

view1 = db.getView('On Site')

dc1 = view1.getAllDocumentsByKey('test')

dc1.getCount()

and of course you can do a

db = session.getCurrentDatabase()

view1 = db.getView('On Site')

dc1= view1.getAllDocumentsByKey('test')

doc = dc1.getFirstDocument()

total = 0

while(doc != null)

{

total = doc.getItemValueDouble('amount') + total

set doc = dc1.getNextDocument(doc)

}

total.valueOf()

X-pages made this easy web development, compared to what i had to do in the past

Questions?: Want to use Safari as default browser for enterprise

2009-11-04T07:53:00.004-06:00

It has been noticed by management lately that IE is a horrible browser, i have known this for a long time. It is big, it is slow, and it does not support many web standards. Since we might start standardizing on the iPhone as the business phone over the blackberry, the thought occurred to use Safari 4 as the default browser in our company, otherwise maybe FF35 would be just as good or better.

A couple of questions that maybe only the enterprise would care about.

1. Can you set the update software to poll an internal server for the Safari Updates? So every client does not go to the internet to get the new downloads.

2. Can you set policies to control custom settings or setup options?

3. Does Lotus support Safari for inotes?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide

Update: It appears there is an Apple Software Update Server that can be run on a mac mini that will update even the windows machines apple software.

@URLEncode and X-pages

2009-10-28T12:42:00.002-05:00

I had a circumstance where i needed to encode a variable with spaces into a web link via ssjs. So i looked for @URLEncode(), it not there.... So I emailed Paul Hannan and asked if there was a way to do this, and as usual he came back with a quick response with an answer.

Here is the code i used in SSJS

attachmentnames = java.net.URLEncoder.encode(@AttachmentNames(),"UTF-8")

iPhone ToDo's and Notebook Access

2009-10-14T16:16:00.001-05:00

I have had some questions recently about which version of the Domino server can run ITANA successfully.

Domino 8.5 will not work.

Domino 8.5.1 is required.

There are certain parts of SSJS that were not available in earlier versions of the Domino Server that I have taken advantage of. I will write soon about what these are and how to use them in your applications. Since this application is built on X-pages, the server has to be Notes 8.5.1CD8 or newer, but because the Gold release is out for Domino 8.5.1 it would be better to be running production code.

__________________________________________________________________________

If you would like more information on this product please visit, http://hughesconnect.com

Announcing ITANA or “iPhone Tasks and Notebook Access for Lotus Notes”

2009-10-09T10:25:00.001-05:00

With the release of the Lotus Domino 8.5.1 server on Monday, I am making ITANA for Lotus Notes available for purchase. This application will allow you to access you Lotus Notes To Do’s(Tasks), and your Lotus Notes Journal(Notebook) from your iPhone. It does not require any modification to the mail file, and can run on a separate server than the users mail file.

It is an X-Page application, therefore there is not any offline access to your information. I know some of you see this as a big limitation, but remember the iPhone is almost always connected to the internet, and on an airplane a laptop is always better to get work done on than an iPhone.

This product does require a Domino 8.5.1 server CD8 or Gold code to run correctly!

To purchase this product, or for more details and a demonstration video, please visit http://Hughesconnect.com .

Xpages: Alternate View Row Colors Made Easy

2009-10-08T11:05:00.004-05:00

This may be old news to some, but for me a tip from Paul Hannan made a big improvement to how my views look in X-Pages.

First open the view in designer on your x-page, then click on All Properties, look for rowClasses

enter in two or 3 classes like - even, odd

now add some css to your style sheet

.odd {
 background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);
}

.odd:Hover {
 background-color: rgb(288, 250, 221);
}

.even {

}
.even:Hover {
 background-color: rgb(288, 250, 221);
}

That’s it, really simple alternate row colors in X-pages

The results will look something like this, depending on the contrast level on your screen you may or may not see the alternate line colors as they are very light gray with the hover color light yellow.

My Lotus Knows video, Please comment on what can make it better!

2009-09-02T10:25:00.000-05:00

Gmail is not working, but my Lotus Notes is!

2009-09-01T16:11:00.002-05:00

How i wish i could watch Lotus Knows videos!

2009-08-31T15:13:00.003-05:00

I was excited about the prospect of seeing the Lotus Knows videos when they were submitted, but it appears i will not. In an email response today i got this information

"Please note that your video will not appear on the Entries Page of the www.doyouknowlotus.com site. Due to the short time frame, and nature of the Video Blitz, we've chosen to keep the videos under wraps until they've been reviewed and the Lotus Knows landing page goes live featuring the chosen videos."

Well, i guess i will have to find other ways to spend my lunch hour....

When my dad first showed me Lotus Notes

2009-08-26T10:50:00.005-05:00

My dad and i always seem to enjoy many of the same things. We like to play golf, go fishing, and play with any kind of gadget we can find. We were sitting around talking last week about all kinds of technology related stuff and i remembered when i first saw Lotus Notes.

I was pretty young at the time, maybe middle school, so think late 80's early 90's. My dad was a manger for Texaco, and he had a laptop that he brought home from work. We were both very interested in computers, i remember our family having a TI, an x86, 286, 486 etc. So when he got new stuff at work he would show me what they used, and how it helped them to do whatever they were trying to accomplish. So one day he showed me this software called Lotus Notes. It had a tabbed interface and workspace, probably version 2 or 3, though he tells me he remembers version 1. It had the icons scattered across the workspace, and he would open one up and tell what they used it for tracking and how it helped them communicate about this or that, little did i know i would be using the SAME icons many years later, please update them! He seemed genuinely excited about the possibilities the software had. He could open it up at home and replicate it at work the next day. Strange, i had seen my future and did not even know it!

Fast forward many years later, i graduated form college and got my first job with an IBM business partner which started my career with Lotus Notes and similar products. So i guess that makes me a second generation Lotus Notes user, i wonder how many others out there have similar experiences.

At that time my Dad was managing Knowledge management at Texaco, and talked about team rooms and people working together across great distances, so i showed him this brand new product called QuickPlace. Texaco started using it shortly after, so whoever got the sale from that purchase - your welcome!

Now i have been administrating and developing with Notes for about 10 years, and my son who is three and a half will see this software in the near future, with me saying look at this - see how useful it is. This saves or company x many hours per week. He will be the 3rd generation to see it, and one day may use it in his work.... who knows what will happen in 20 years.

My favorite Notes Client 8.5.1 feature so far! I have been waiting for it since 8.0.

2009-08-26T09:41:00.006-05:00

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is prerelease code and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality presented or discussed will be in the final shipping product.

Oh yeah, its in the designer client as well.

No more text properties box for me!!

A Preview of my iPhone web app for the Journal/Notebook

2009-07-31T09:09:00.001-05:00

It is almost complete, works much in the same fashion as the app for the To Do’s. Here are some preliminary screen shots. If you see something that needs to be added or improved please let me know, thanks.

iPhone Lotus Notes “To Do” web app video

2009-07-29T07:16:00.003-05:00

Here is the video of the To Do app. It was recorded on the iPhone simulator on my wife's Mac. I didn't investigate how to turn the mic off with jing, and it doesn't refresh as well as i would like, but hey it was free. You can hear my daughter playing with her rattle in the background, and some annoying mighty mouse clicks... but other than that i think it shows the UI pretty well.

Manage your Lotus Notes To Do’s on the iPhone

2009-07-28T12:06:00.001-05:00

The iPhone is great, especially with Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1, but is missing a few items that the blackberry includes. One of these items is the To Do functionality. Seeing a need for people to manage their to do’s on the iPhone, i created an Xpage “To Do” app that runs in its own process when saved to the home page. I have seen different apps that let you read or view your to do’s, but they have limited functionality, you could not edit them, create them, or view attachments.

To avoid the Apple app update submittal headache, I think a web app was the right way to go. Updates can be done by replacing the design of the database, or making a few changes, then everyone gets the changes.

All to do’s are stored in the mail file, and i didn't want others to have modify their mail file templates to use this new functionality. The beauty of Xpages is that i can compute the data sources to the the users mail file who is logged in. So to install this application, all you need is a Domino 8.5.1 server, and you simply drop the database in a directory, and send a web link to the iPhone. Who-ever logs in gets their to do’s, the mail file doesn't even have to be on the same server, except if they want to view attachments.

If you would like more information about this product please email me, thanks

Update here is a new post with video - Video

Now for some screen shots(Video coming later this evening)

Home Screen

Loading Page

Application home screen

Drop Down combo box for View By: and Status:

The To Do Form, notice attachments at the bottom

An Attachment, you can scroll around to see it, also planning on adding a button to open in Safari.

Xpages: Part 3, making an CRM app iPhone Friendly – Making it look like a native app

2009-07-17T10:06:00.001-05:00

The first thing you need to do to make your Xpage application look like a native iPhone app is to put all the parts(view, form, etc.) into 1 Xpage. I did this with two panels, one is hidden while the other is showing. In the first panel, which is set to display:none by default, is the contact form. The other panel which is visible by default is the view and search function.

Configure the links in the view to set the document(data source for the contact panel) to the universal docid by using the columns onClick event on the events tab. Set it to partial update the contact panel to receive the information from the document data source. On the client side js in the onClick event, set the panel with the search view in it to display:none, then set the contact panel to display:block.

Then create a back button on the contact form that hides the contact panel, and displays the search view panel.

The reason you need to put everything on one page and use Ajax refresh is because of the next step, also it is much much faster then changing pages. Add this meta tag to the Xpage.

When a user bookmarks a your web page with this meta tag on the iPhone home screen, it will open in its own safari app process, it will not show the location bar or the bottom nav bar. If you click on a link to another web page it will open it in a normal Safari window and take you away from the app, ruining your appearance of it being a native app.

Another meta tag that really makes a difference is:

This will set the top bar with “ATT and time” to be black when the app is opened.

Now we want a custom icon on the iPhone home page, and a startup image too. For this we add two links:

Notice the CRM app icon on the desktop, then look at the startup “splash screen” image.

The start up image comes up immediately, then waits for your page to open. I suggest making your own Domcfg.nsf login form using the ultralite login subform as a start, then make the buttons and fields allot bigger. i also found out that sometimes this replaces the iPhone home icon with the ultralight login image, so fix that as well, every app will have to have a custom login form. I also added the ability to remember the password, not just the username. You can search the web to find the correct dimensions for these pictures.

All that is left is to put in some nice webkit transitions when you hide and then display the panels. I like to first fade out the current panel, after the fade out has occurred - set it to display:none, Set the next panel to display:block, then fade that panel in. Most of this can be done with CSS, i will blog on this later. You can also do the card flip or any webkit transition you would like.

Xpages: Part 2, making a CRM app iPhone Friendly

2009-07-09T08:52:00.002-05:00

In my last post i showed how to size the screen and disable zooming, but things were still a little small. In particular the view spacing was not that finger friendly, also it looked a little akward with the page having padding around the table, and the fonts were too small.

Here is what is looked like

To solve the view spacing issue, i added this code to my style sheet to change the height of the rows.

.xspDataTable tbody tr td {
border-top:1px solid #E8E8E9;
font-weight:normal;
height:45px;
vertical-align:middle;
}

This changes the line height to 45 pixels(i also changed the font to Arial 14), much more finger friendly than 20px. Here is what it looks like now

I then took away all the page padding to get a better look, increased font size, and added this script to hide the address bar on load

addEventListener('load', function() { 
    setTimeout(hideAddressBar, 0); 
    }, false); 
    function hideAddressBar() { 
    window.scrollTo(0, 1); 
    }

I also created a custom view pager and increased the font size to 14, and made all row heights 45px, here is the result

Now tomorrow i will make the post about mapping directions and making a button that opens another url using SSJS

Xpages: Making a CRM app iPhone Friendly

2009-07-07T16:48:00.002-05:00

A new task has emerged, i need to make an internal crm database accessible to mobile phones. Since the iPhone is supported for Traveler 8.5.1, i decided to focus on this platform and the inherent capabilities it provides.

First i had allot of trouble getting things sized right for the screen, and then there was zooming issues. I finally discovered a way to help format the page correctly and disable zooming.

In the source view of the Xpage, go to the top and under the <xp:view> tag enter this tag in

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320; 
initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />

It only affects the iPhone Safari and displays in its full size on all other browsers.

Other good news was the iPhone automatically turned the phone numbers into links. I made the email address a “mailto:” link, and that opens an iPhone email very fast without leaving Safari.

Tomorrow i will show how i got the iPhone Google maps application to map this address, and also map directions from your current location to the destination address.

And no, its not slow at all, and i don't have 3G.

Xpages: How do YOU make rounded corners in IE?

2009-07-06T13:15:00.002-05:00

I am looking for the easiest, lowest overhead way to round corners in IE. I have seen many different ways to do this on the web, and all look a little overly complicated. Of course if IE 8 would support CSS 3, it would be much easier.

In Firefox and Safari it is only a few lines of css styling like

-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 1px transparent;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px transparent;

So i ask the Notes community for some tips, thanks

Here is my page in FireFox 3

Here is the same page in IE 8

Xpages: Simple action groups and validation

2009-06-17T09:01:00.001-05:00

I am looking for the best way to validate fields before a save, i could care less about what they are before i save, like in partial refreshes messing up because a field is empty.

I discovered that simple action groups are conditional, that gave me the thought to use them to validate the form before a save, not only could i validate whether it was empty but i should be able to validate if a value existed in a table, as in type ahead entries. I could also validate the false statement and use the simple action confirm dialog to tell them what was wrong and that it did not save.

Is there a better way to do this? I know you could do it client side, but then how do you stop your serverside script from running?

Xpages: A Tabbed Panel UI, and remembering which tab you were on..

2009-06-16T10:47:00.001-05:00

I kind of like the tabbed panel as a UI for some applications, it seems to lend itself to being able to show more information horizontally than a navigator on the left hand side. Now in my xpage application, i have a different view on each tab. When you click on a document link it takes you to another page(the PO Form), and when you leave that page(the po form) the brwoser returns to this page, the tabbed panel.

To get back to the tab the user was on before they opened the po…

First i set the “Tab opened by default” to a computed value that = sessionScope.whichtab

Next i set a session variable whichtab to the tab id(the id on the properties of the tab) in the on click event.

Now every time you return to this page, or it refreshes, it will open the last tab that was clicked.

Xpages: View Picklist example download - now unencrypted!

2009-06-09T07:15:00.003-05:00

Sorry, forgot about the default local encryption, I updated the Designer Wiki(could not delete the first attachment though), also it has been placed below for a direct link to the updated file. Thanks Sean for getting me set up.

Picklist Example Download

Xpages: picklist example download, can someone host the file for me?

2009-06-08T08:18:00.003-05:00

I have had several request for a download of the code used in my picklist example. I have a very simple database with the code in it, but don't have a public place to post it. Can anyone help me out? thanks

here is a link to the download on the Designer wiki

link

Xpages: Picklist Views and the pager

2009-05-19T11:33:00.003-05:00

If you create a picklist from a view like i posted yesterday, make sure you set the pager to partial refresh on your views, or else it will refresh the entire page and your dialog will go back to being hidden.

Xpages: How to create a view picklist!!

2009-05-18T15:24:00.013-05:00

So i finally figured it out, by piecing many sources of code from around the internet.

Updated to say go get the custom control on Openntf.org!!!

It is much easier to use and set up. It is also reusable.

link

Step 1. create a custom control.

Create a custom control and put your view on it, and put a search bar and a select button above it like this, make the first column have a check box option

Configure this for searching.... click here if you do not know how to do this.

On the select button "on click" event put this code in, it gets the selected documents, then it gets a value from the document and then adds it to the field on my main form. I got this code form the developer wiki

function printToLog(stuff) {
_dump("\r\nPRINT START\r\n");
_dump(stuff);
_dump("\r\nPRINT END\r\n");
}

var database = session.getDatabase("notes1", "applications\\viewpoint.nsf")
var viewPanel=getComponent("viewPanel1"); //get the componet of viewPanel
var docIDArray=viewPanel.getSelectedIds(); //get the array of document ids
printToLog('got ids')

for(i=0;
i  <  docIDArray.length;
i++){
var docId=docIDArray[i];
printToLog(docId)
var doc=database.getDocumentByID(docId);
printToLog(doc)
if(doc != null){
var pickthis1 = doc.getItemValueString("projectnum")
printToLog(pickthis1)
}
}

if(pickthis1 != null){
dominoDocument1.replaceItemValue("job", pickthis1)
}

On the client side of the select button js on click event, enter this in
dijit.byId('Dialog3').hide();

This closes the dialog we will create in a moment. Save and close that custom control.

On your main form you need to add this client side javascript function, i found this on the forum, unless you use this you can not click any buttons on your dialog or search or update.

/**

* Creates a dijit dialog box based on a div content
* @param id div identifier
*/

function dialog_create(id, title1) {
var dialogWidget = dijit.byId(id);
if( dialogWidget )
dialogWidget.destroyRecursive(true);
dialogWidget = new dijit.Dialog(
{ title: title1, duration:600},
dojo.byId(id));

var dialog = dojo.byId(id);
dialog.parentNode.removeChild(dialog);

var form = document.forms[0];
form.appendChild(dialog);
dialogWidget.startup();
}

Next add this to the source of your page, notice the<> is the picklist custom control we just created

At the top of the XPage in source view, you need to add the onload function to call the function to create the dialog

Then we create a button to show the dialog with client side javascript.
dijit.byId('Dialog3').show()

Then you will have something that works like a picklist, once you do it once it gets much easier.

Xpages: Has anyone created a picklist yet?

2009-05-14T08:16:00.002-05:00

I was wondering because it would be nice to have a button to pop up a dialog with a view in it, have check boxes and be able to return values back to the underlying webpage when done.

I have created a dialog inside an iframe for a simple pop up form, so i am familiar with that step. I guess i could put an xpage view inside the dialog and then when the select button is pushed, transfer the values, but how would one get the values of the selected document?

Any help is appreciated, this seems to be the only big thing missing from xpages, and maybe they will add an @picklist function in the future

Xpages, file download control problems, work around

2009-03-31T08:05:00.002-05:00

It seems that if you put a file download control on an xpage, and that application is in a sub folder,
ie. data\applications\application.nsf

then you will receive an error trying to open the files. The developer evidently forgot to get the path of that database when creating the link.

Work Around:
It you put the same database in the data directory it works great.

Don't know why this has not been fixed seems like it would be simple, with a feature release.

Xpages and nice buttons using css

2009-02-20T08:36:00.005-06:00

I saw a post recently about how to use dojo themed buttons on your xpages, but they only seemed to work on forms, not views, at least i was having trouble making them consistent across all of my pages.

So i took some screen shots and created a css file and applied them to all the buttons, i guess i should create a them to do that for me.

Here is what it looks like finished..

here is the css code

.button {
background-image:url(button2.png);background-repeat:repeat-x
height:30px;
margin-bottom:3px;
padding-left:0px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:Arial,serif;
font-size:9pt;
color: rgb(14,94,152);
border-color:#C0C0C0 #9B9B9B #9B9B9B #C0C0C0;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
padding: 0.2em;
}

.button:hover{
background-image:url(button2over.png);background-repeat:repeat-x;
border-color:#A5BEDA #5C7590 #5C7590 #A5BEDA;
color:#000000;

}

here are the images

Xpages, formmating currency client side for multiplication

2009-02-20T08:27:00.002-06:00

I needed to multiply a qty times a value and get a total on an xpage, sounds easy until you start getting nan, so i learned a little dojo to convert to and from currency.

On the onblur event of the field i put this on the client side of both the qty field and amount field.

//get the string values
qty1 = XSP.getElementById('#{id:qty1}').value
amount1 = XSP.getElementById('#{id:amount1}').value

//get the dojo currency code
dojo.require("dojo.currency");

//get the numeric value using parse
amount2 = dojo.currency.parse(amount1, {currency: "USD"})

//multiply
total1 = qty2 * amount2

//set total value as currency using format
XSP.getElementById('#{id:total1}').value = dojo.currency.format(total1, {currency: "USD"})

//make sure the amount is in currency format using format
XSP.getElementById('#{id:amount1}').value = dojo.currency.format(amount2, {currency: "USD"})

Xpages, hide whens formulas, and user roles

2009-02-20T08:21:00.004-06:00

I needed to hide a button and since you cant simply put in @isnotmember("[Admin]";@userroles)
i had to find a different way to find out if the user was a member of that role, here is what i came up with.

//get the database
db1 = session.getDatabase("server1","database.nsf")

//get the acl
acl1 = db1.getACL()

//get the current users access
personalentry = acl1.getEntry(session.getEffectiveUserName())

//check if role is enabled
personalentry.isRoleEnabled("Admin")

this will return a true or false and calculate the hide when

Sending an email from an Xpage, should it be this painfull?

2009-02-11T15:58:00.004-06:00

here is the serverside script i run to send the email from a button, wouldnt it be great to be able to use @mailsend and return a http link? The plus side is i can put in html content this way and format it to my hearts content.

db1 = session.getDatabase("notes1/rcc","Applications\\database.nsf")
doc1 = db1.createDocument()
doc1.appendItemValue("Form","Memo")

var1 = "Employee: " + @Text(dominoDocument1.getItemValueString('employeename'))
var2 = "Craft: " + dominoDocument1.getItemValueString('craft')

var3 = "html tags" +
var1 + "breaktag" +
var2 + "breaktag" +
"a reflink tag + link " +
dominoDocument1.getDocument().getUniversalID()+"'> Link"
+ "close html tags"

body = doc1.createMIMEEntity()
subject = body.createHeader("Subject")
subject.setHeaderVal("subject")

stream = session.createStream()
stream.writeText(var3)

body.setContentFromText(stream, "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1", 0)

doc1.send("group or persons name")

Xpages, how to make type ahead work for more than 64kb

2009-02-03T16:02:00.003-06:00

I needed a type ahead for a field and needed it to work for about 6400 items in a view in another database. @DbColumn would return the value "Infinity" in a combobox, it would return nothing in the type ahead computed area. I am guessing the 64kb thing, but dont know for sure. So i decided to filter of a filter.

in the computed value of the type ahead i get the current field value

key1 = dominoDocument1.getItemValueString('vendor')

Then i do a lookup on that value with a @dblookup command with partial match turned on.

db1 = new Array("notes1","Applications\\vendors.nsf")

@DbLookup(db1, "PickList",@UpperCase(@Text(key1)), 1 ,"[PARTIALMATCH]")

I am guessing this has to do with how this function is implemented, getting the entire column and then doing a lookup on it, instead of doing a lookup on the column to begin with.

How to add EXT And EXT.ND to an XPAGE

2009-01-23T10:25:00.005-06:00

I like to build forms and layouts in xpages, i like picklist and advanced funtionality of extnd, here is a screen shot of a ext.nd picklist on an xpage, the best of both worlds? I am testing to see how well i can use these togeather.

To get the ext libraries and other goodies on the xpage a create a custom control with a computed field with the type set to html.

Put in the html to load ext and extnd as a computed value like

Then create another custom control the exact same way and put your picklist code in it.

Put these at the top of the xpage as controls.

Create a button on the page and make the name( id) What you need it to be in your extnd code. like "show-dialog-btn1", but realize in the dom it will show like "view:_id1:tabPanel2:show-dialog-btn1" so in extnd code put it in like this

// for button 1, this is an example of how to attach to click event through Javasciprt
showBtn = Ext.get('view:_id1:tabPanel2:show-dialog-btn1');
showBtn.on('click', this.showPL, this);

Using firebug in firefox makes it simple to find what these items are called, so then you can set your fields values based on what you return from the picklist.

Any ideas on how to do this better? I just started trying to use xpages yesterday, so there may be better ways of doing some of this stuff.

Anyone know how to set security on an xpage?

2009-01-22T08:26:00.002-06:00

Is the security set on the notes form / view? Are there anything like readers and authors fields?

I have an application with two forms, both forms need to be able to be read by anonymous, 1 form only created by group A and the other form only created by group B. I have set form security that way but both groups can create both forms through the xpage!

Any help is appreciated. What am i missing? I have done searches for xpages and security and xpages and acl to no avail.

To Whom Ever created the Domino Configuration Tuner

2009-01-12T10:29:00.003-06:00

Thank You!!

This tool saves me so much time and gives me suggestions on settings i had no idea existed.

And the UI is awesome!

I found names , thanks Ulrich

Taken from this link
_________________________________________________________________

Extended Team

DCT got out-the-door because of wonderful contributions from the following team mates. Thank you.

Amy Reuss Caton, Andrew Eisenberg, Andrew Nolet, Ann Innis, Ayla Lari, Ben Pontrello, Bill Hume, Bob Balaban, Bob Schloss, Bob Stachel, Brent Davis, Brian Arnett, Brian Gallagher, Brian Richards, Brian Van Schaick, Carolynn McCarthy, Chad Scott, Collin Murray, Constance Martin-Wilson, Dan Rosato, Dave Davidson, David Attardo, David Kern, David Ogle, Debra B Thomas, Dominique Evans, Don Chamberlin, Ed Brill, Ed Knowlton, Eric Thibodeau, Gail Hughes, Gary Rheaume, George Demetriou, Ghislain Busque, Gilles Carrier, Greg Pflaum, Harry Murray, Ignacio Gende, Ilene Seelemann, James Cooper, Janet Thomas, Jason LaVoie, Jeff Eisen, Jeff Mitchell, Jennifer Kelley, Jenny Szawlewicz, Jerome Simeon, Jim Kirkpatrick, Jim Puckett, Jim Rouleau, Joanna Dapkevich, Joe Malek, John Curtis, John Paganetti, John Roman, John Woods, Julie Kadashevich, Kar Chung, Katherine Holden, Kathie Collins, Kathleen Henault, Kathleen Smith, Ken Brunsen, Ken Hampson, Ken Lin, Kevin Cavanaugh, Kristin Keene, Leah Busque, Leanne Newton, Leslie Steele, LotusLarry Mancini, Maher Samman, Margaret Rora, Mark Costello, Mark Skurla, Mary Jrolf, Mary Pagucci, Melissa A Klein, Melora Goosey, Meredith Roman, Merrill Kashiwabara, Michael Fraenkel, Michele Franklin, Mike Barcomb, Mike Gagnon, Mike Kerrigan, Murray Hurvitz, Neil Graham, Nirmala Venkatraman, Paul Dell'Anno, Peter Mierswa, Peter Rubinstein, Philip Fratini, Pietro Torchia, Raj Patil, Ralph LeBlanc, Razeyah Stephen, Rich Buck, Rich Epstein, Rob Gearhart, Robert Bishop, Robert Ingram, Robert McDonald, Russ Holden, Sam McNulty, Scott Boag, Scott Hopper, Scott Davidson, Scott Morris, Scott Puls, Scott Vrusho, Sharon Adler, Silvia S Pighin, Steve Gerdt, Steve Watts, Sudhakar Gaddam, Sumeet Toprani, Susan Bulloch, Susan Ricercato, Tim Southgate, Todd Flolo, Tracey Nolander, Varad M Rajulu, Vinod Seraphin, Vittorio de Gioia, William Whelan

Core Development Team

These are the folks that did the heavy lifting.

Amy "Word" Smith
Art "Here to Help" Thomas
Brian "I can do that for you" Arffa
Greg "Ironman of Automation" Grunwald
Harry "This is Fun" Peebles
Irene "Coding Gorilla" Ros
Keith "Island Man" LaMotte
Margaret "Elvis" Flood
Paul "Poolside" Roberge
Robert "The Very Best Chip Ever" Carter
Scott "Bring Six Up" O'Keefe
Thomas "Mr. Perfect" Gumz
William "The New Guy" Cahill

A Tip for GZIP in 8.5

2009-01-12T10:16:00.003-06:00

If you have your files in a database you need to mark the MIME type for the gzip to work correctly.

An Example, without adding "application" the code sent to the browser was still gzipped.

Domino 8.5, GZIP, and EXT

2008-12-31T14:10:00.007-06:00

Domino 8.5 will support serving of gzip files by default. This is great news! I can finally stop using hacks to get Domino to use gzip files, and writing @if statements to check for browser compatibility.

This greatly affects the first page load time.

Here is an example of the top three files for extnd gzipped versus unzipped.
434 KB savings!!!

Details from the 8.5 reviewers guide

2.8 GNU zip (gzip) files
The Domino Web server can serve files compressed by gzip (GNU zip). This feature is on by default, but you must add the compressed file to the appropriate server directory, and certain restrictions apply, as listed below.
The Domino Web Server serves files compressed by gzip (GNU zip), under the following conditions:
• The Notes.ini file does not contain the following setting: HTTPDisablePreCompressedGzipFiles=1.

• The name of the compressed file is the name of the original file with an additional extension of .gz. For example, the gzip counterpart of c:\notes\data\domino\html\foo.html is c:\notes\data\domino\html\foo.html.gz. (A browser sees this file as http://servername/foo.html.)

• The original file is present in the same directory as the gzip file. The original file is served if it is newer than the gzip file or compression is disabled.

• The browser or other client sends the request header Accept-Encoding: gzip (the default for most browsers).

• The MIME Content-type of the file matches text/* (all subtypes of type text) or application/* (all subtypes of type application). The server does not support sending a range of bytes for a file that has a gzip counterpart. The server does not send "Accept-Ranges: bytes" in the HTTP header and sends the entire compressed file.

Does anyone know of any better way to make these files smaller?

Advantages with using a Notes Page to contain a JavaScript file

2008-12-30T07:55:00.005-06:00

One thing i love about Lotus Notes on the web is the use of computed text. It allows me easily to do some things i would have no idea how to do with java script. I was looking through the extnd database and noticed that a page was actually an xsl file, so when i was working with my Web Desktop i figured this could solve one of my problems i was having.

I wanted to have the users name in the start menu, in the sample code it was hard coded. So for the meantime i put the company name there. To solve this i took the text from the sample.js file and put it in a notes page. I then changed the page properties to say it contained something other than notes content or html.

I created some computed text
@name([cn];@username)
and put it in place of the company name.

I then changed the location of the sample.js file in the main web desktop page to point to this notes page.

I then had the username show up in the start menu. I think i will use something simalar to offer different desktop themes to the user in the near future.

More on customizing the start menu in the EXT Web Desktop on Domino

2008-12-29T10:15:00.005-06:00

Here is an example of grouping together items in the start menu. In this example I create a folder with two items in it. The folder name is "In Development" and the two items inside it are Purchase Orders and Expense Reports. This code is located in the sample.js in the EXTND Database that was shown in the first post in this blog.

MyDesktop.BogusMenuModule2 = Ext.extend(MyDesktop.contracts, {
init : function(){
this.launcher = {
text: 'In Development',
iconCls: 'bogus',
handler: function() {
return false;
},
menu: {
items:[ {
text: 'Purchase Orders',
iconCls: new MyDesktop.purchaseorders().launcher.iconCls,
handler : new MyDesktop.purchaseorders().createWindow,
scope: this,
windowId: 'Purchase Orders'
},
{
text: 'Expense Reports - Moved to Applications Folder',
iconCls: new MyDesktop.expensereports().launcher.iconCls,
//handler : new MyDesktop.expensereports().createWindow,
scope: this,
windowId: 'Expense Reports'
}

] } } }});

EXT Web Desktop, Customizing Desktop Icons and Start Menu

2008-12-23T08:00:00.008-06:00

To customize the icons and links on the desktop itself, you need to open the sample.js file that was uploaded to the EXTND database. Look at the top section of code, that starts with MyDesktop, In the getModules function you list what you want to appear on the desktop and start menu.

There are two options for adding applications, you can have it on the desktop and start menu, or you can have it on the start menu only.

Here is an example of adding it to the desktop and start menu. In this example i am adding a link to a webpage shown in an iframe.

Notice the iconcls tag. This is what you will use when you edit the desktop.css and add icons to go with this link.

example:
This will add a small icon on the start menu and task bar.

.remotedesktop {
background-image: url( ../images/remotedesktopsmall.png ) !important;
}

Save and close the desktop.css and the sample.js. Now the application is in the start menu. Next open the main html page that contains the web desktop code. Add the new application to the desktop by adding some pass through html like this.

The dt id defines the image you will assign in the desktop.css file like this

#Remote-Desktop-shortcut img {
width:48px;
height:48px;
background-image: url(../images/remotedesktop.png);
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/EXTND/EXTNDB1.nsf/ext/2.0.1/desktop/images/remotedesktop.png', sizingMethod='scale');
}

This will add the icon to the desktop with a link to your application.

In my next post i will discuss how to group items togeather in the start menu.

How To: Use The "Web Desktop" from EXT in a Lotus Domino enviroment

2008-12-22T07:28:00.005-06:00

The web desktop example used in EXT is a powerful example of what can be done rather quickly with the EXT framework. Since, i wanted to manage this site with Notes, and wanted all the resources in a notes database, i chose to use the EXTND database to hold these files for convenience.

You must have EXT either in a directory, or by using the EXT.ND database, which is my preference.

First download the full EXT code, in it you will find an examples folder. In this folder is a folder named desktop. Open domino designer, open the database you want to house these in and select import files. Import all the files, make sure you retain their relative paths that you find in the folder.

You do not have to import the desktop.html file though, i use the code from this file in a Notes page, that way i can compute values and do other things that Notes does well that is hard to do in html.

Create your page or form in Lotus Notes, copy and paste the body HTML from the desktop.html. If you are using EXT.ND put your header information in the HTML Head Content area on the page.

You also need to include the header information for the desktop application like this

Save and close the page, Open it up in a web browser and you will have your web desktop example running on your server.

In my next post i will detail how to customize the links and icons/navigation in this example.

A web portal example with EXT.ND and Web Desktop from EXT Samples running completely on Domino

2008-12-19T08:45:00.010-06:00

A while back i was tasked with creating a web portal for our employees, i looked around quite a bit to find something that i thought was innovative and different. At the time i had already found EXT.ND, and i was very impressed. I had built a couple of applications with it, and it was simple to use. I went to the EXT website and found the web desktop example, i realized it was the perfect gui to use for my new project.

Here is what i came up with..

This is a web page that is running on a domino server, and all elements are contained in notes databases!

I like the windows like gui in the browser, you can have multiple windows open at a time all on one web browser tab. You can minimize, maximize, and size these windows to your hearts content. They can be an ext.nd application or any web page in in iFrame. One of the best things about the web desktop is users dont need to be trained to use it.