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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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/

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