Xpages: Has anyone created a picklist yet?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.