DDN unresponsive - who to go to for Domino hosting?
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 1:26p Brian Moore div For the last several years, Ive used the Domino Developer Network to host my personal Notes apps. Overall, Ive not had any problems. Support requests werent answered in 2 seconds, but since they werent critical, I got decent responses - except for the one time the request got lost entirely./divdiv /divdivLast month, however, I created some new XPage apps and moved them up. When I tried them from a browser, they didnt work. A little troubleshooting showed that quot;.xsp is not recognizedquo [read] Keywords: domino
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Importing a text file by line position
Mon, Aug 9th 2010 6:29p Brian Moore One of the ways of getting data from other systems is via a flat file, without delimiters, but using the line position. This does eliminate the problem of the delimiter being used in the text, but isnt very human readable (not that it needs to be). I was recently asked to set up an import for this type of text file. Ive done similar imports before, but this one has a whole lot of fields. I started as I normally do, setting up the Notes form, I had a view to check my data, and then I started do [read] Keywords: agent
dxl
lotusscript
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Cheating for CheckBoxGroup/RadioButtonGroup validation
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 6:30p Brian Moore Checkboxgroups and Radiobuttongroups are not fully implemented in XPages. By this I mean that not only are they relegated to quot;Otherquot; in the controls, but they dont have the drop-and-use aspects of the other controls. These are pretty important controls, and I can only image that they will be more robust within a few releases.br /br /One of the problems is that there isnt an easy way to validate these when used. There are a couple of posts out there, including a really great set by a hr [read] Keywords: notes
xpages javascript
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Breaking my head: value from a checkbox
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 5:27p Brian Moore div Ive been breaking my head trying to get a value out of a checkbox for validation, i.e. before submission to the server. For a variety of other fields, I can get it via the client call like: /divdivblockquotefont color=#4169e1var cName = document.getElementById(quot;#{id:checkBox1}quot;).value;br /if(cName == quot;quot; || cName == null) {br / alert(quot;Please check a box. quot;);br / return false; br /}br //font/blockquoteBut this just isnt working. Im not getting any value at [read] Keywords: notes
xpages bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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I hate the new Designer Help
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 5:24p Brian Moore Im not trying to start a flame war here, but I cant ever seem to find anything in the new quot;helpquot; that comes in Designer. The instant case in point is that Im trying to find a way to conditionally validate a date/time field in XPages. Im using the quot;Date Time Pickerquot; custom control. I want to see some of the properties so I can try to determine why an empty, untouched field returns a value of quot; on quot; when tested. So I try the new quot;helpquot; in Designer. I go to the i [read] Keywords: connections
notes
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xpages bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
database
development
properties
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Contigent validation: if other you must describe
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 9:23a Brian Moore In traditional Notes development, its a fairly simple thing to only require a value in field quot;Bquot; if field quot;Aquot; has a certain value. I use this when I give people an opportunity to select quot;Otherquot; for some reason: I then require to know what the quot;Otherquot; is. Im working on this for a XPage, but where its even easier there than in traditional Notes to put in some validation, I couldnt find an example of how to require a second field only if a previous field had a certai [read] Keywords: dblookup
lotusscript
notes
xpages development
javascript
openntf
server
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Put any number of columns in a CheckBoxGroup
Thu, Jul 1st 2010 6:24p Brian Moore a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/DominoHerald/entry/2_column_checkboxgroup14?lang=en_usThe other day I blogged about created a CheckBoxGroup with two columns/a. Being able to configure CheckBoxGroups (and RadioButtonGroups) are not in the current release of XPages. My solution was to populate two sessionScope variables with alternating entries from a view column, then have each of two CheckBoxGroups display the values from their variable. My first call for this was for two columns, but [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
javascript
xml
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XPage Error Logging using NotesLog
Wed, Jun 30th 2010 12:28p Brian Moore I use the NotesLog a lot with my LotusScript work, and Ive gotten very used to having the NotesLog to help me pinpoint problems. The new XPages JavaScript functions have the same (or similar) capability, but Ive not seen strikemany/strike any posts on this method. So I started kicking it around a bit. The code snippet below is a basic bit that works according to my limited testing so far. The quot;sessionquot; is the default session given when you start your code, and the name is something to [read] Keywords: lotusscript
xpages javascript
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2 Column CheckBoxGroup
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 1:25p Brian Moore One of the things XPages are currently missing is a simple control for radio or checkboxes. There are other controls for them, but they arent very robust yet. What I mean by that is you cant easily specify to have several columns that match up, you can have them all go horizontal or vertical, but Im working on a process and Id like to have the checkboxes spread out over two columns. After some experimentation, I finally created two checkbox groups, one in each cell of a table, the problem them [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
javascript
xml
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Hide-When printed in XPages
Wed, Jun 23rd 2010 3:27p Brian Moore XPages use quot;Visiblequot; rather than Hide-When, and like traditional Hide-Whens, you can put in a value to compute. But I didnt find one for the traditional quot;Hide when printedquot; from the Notes Client. Im working on a XPage where there is a button to call up a dialog box, and I naturally dont want that button printed up. After some digging and experimentation, Ive found a way to hide things when printed. The function is done via a CSS, so here is the bit to put in:br /blockquoteblock [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
xpages bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
css
firefox
properties
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XPage double entries
Sat, Jun 19th 2010 10:26p Brian Moore Tommy Valand answered a question from a developer who was working in XPages and getting 2 documents saved when there should have only been one. a href=http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2010/06/xpages-avoid-saving-duplicate-documents.htmlHere is the post/a. Ive been having the same problem in a database Ive been working on. Where using his code didnt solve my problem, he does mention that you can bind datasources to a panel. I remembered I had done just that as an experiment. Removing the panel b [read] Keywords: xpages database
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Startkey= for XPage views? Is there one?
Wed, May 19th 2010 2:23p Brian Moore So Im working on bringing some of my apps into the XPage world. One of the tricks I like best in the Notes style view is the quicksearch function: where you can just start typing and in the client it takes you to that entry, no matter how big the view is. The same thing is possible using the URL command amp;StartKey=Whatever. But I cant find an equivalent in XPages so far. br /br /I really love the standard pager, but it doesnt give an option to get to a certain entry by just typing it in, and [read] Keywords: notes
xpages
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XPages have tighter security
Tue, May 4th 2010 5:23p Brian Moore So, Im working on an XPage that calls an agent to do some processing, then calls up the document created by that agent. Worked well last week, then all of a sudden this week, no dice. It turns out that XPages are a bit more sensitive to who signed what design element than classic Notes. I was getting a response that the agent was null, but it was actually just that the last signer didnt have some privileges. I have a handful of IDs, I guess Ill have to be a bit more careful about which ones Im [read] Keywords: acl
agent
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xpages security
161
Get the text from a pop-up
Thu, Mar 25th 2010 6:28p Brian Moore OK, because Ive just spent some time trying to get this to work:br /br /I knew there was a way to get a Notes pop-up (prompt, etc.) as text so that you can copy it to a document. Not as a picture (which is easy with print-screen). To do it, use lt;ctrlgt;lt;cgt;. Really nice if you want to get the exact message. So rather than:br / a href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/DominoHerald/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/Poppix1.jpg target=_blankimg alt=image src=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/Dom [read] Keywords: notes
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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Quickly find agent errors
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 7:22p Brian Moore Ive long wanted a way to get an idea of why an agent caused problems when they went suddenly astray. Since, like everyone else, I have a block of code that writes to an agent log, I put that in, but a move to a case-sensitive server caused it to have some problems and so I stopped. Plus, I dont really like to constant call to the Agent Log that says something starts and ends unless there is a reason to know all this. br /br /During some other work, I put the code in a error handling at the end [read] Keywords: agent
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