div Ive been working on validation for a Combobox on xPages. If there is something simple out there, Ive missed it, and Id love a pointer. However, what I want to do is put a default value in and have the user change it. But have an error message if they leave the default value in. After some work, I found how and its below. I used the helpfule quot;Do it and move itquot; method. I didnt find this exactly for comboboxes, but the method works for inputTexts, so I got an inputText to validate the way I wanted, then moved the relevant nodes to my combobox. Its a great way to discover how xPages work./divdiv /divdivWell, heres my code:br /blockquotefont color=#0000cdlt;xp:comboBox id=quot;comboBox1quot; value=quot;#{sessionScope.combo}quot;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd style=quot;width:177.0pxquot; disableClientSideValidation=quot;truequot;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd defaultValue=quot;Otherquot;gt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:this.validatorsgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:validateRequired/fontbr /font color=#0000cd message=quot;There has to be something herequot;gt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;/xp:validateRequiredgt; /fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:validateConstraintgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:this.messagegt;lt;![CDATA[You cannot enter quot;Otherquot;]]gt;lt;/xp:this.messagegt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:this.regexgt;lt;![CDATA[^(?:(?![oO][tT][hH][eE][rR]).)*$]]gt;lt;/xp:this.regexgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;/xp:validateConstraintgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;/xp:this.validatorsgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:selectItem itemLabel=quot;Firstquot; itemValue=quot;Firstquot;gt;lt;/xp:selectItemgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:selectItem itemLabel=quot;Secondquot; itemValue=quot;Secondquot;gt;lt;/xp:selectItemgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cd lt;xp:selectItem itemLabel=quot;Otherquot;gt;lt;/xp:selectItemgt;/fontbr /font color=#0000cdlt;/xp:comboBoxgt;/fontbr //blockquote/divdiv br //divdivI actually wanted to put quot;--Other--quot; in, and it works (hey, Im new at RegEx):br /blockquotefont color=#0000cdlt;xp:this.regexgt;lt;![CDATA[^(?:(?![-][-][oO][tT][hH][eE][rR][-][-]).)*$]]gt;lt;/xp:this.regexgt;/fontbr //blockquote/divdiv /divdivCheers,br /Brianbr / /div
Pass-thru HTML in XPages
Thu, Jun 6th 2013 4:16p Brian Moore In classic Notes/Domino development for the web, we used Pass-Thru HTML. XPages doesn't use this, but there are times when we want to put HTML directly into an Xpage. This has been covered before, notably here. But I had some trouble find it, so I'm hoping this blog post can be of service to someone looking.
I wanted to do something slightly different than what is in the example - I wanted to include a value from a field on a Notes document. This field would have html formatted text, t [read] Keywords: domino
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InViewEdit to change field names
Thu, Mar 21st 2013 3:15p Brian Moore Now I've not dug deep into this, but I made an error today in classic Notes development. I've just installed Notes9 (named in honour of the great podcast Notes in 9 [joke]).
I'm working on an InViewEdit. I have two of them in this view, and they have the programmatic names of "useFT" and "useWE". They display values from the "generateFT" and "generateWE" fields. What I did was this:
If Colprogname(0) = "UseFT" Then
Call doc.Replace [read] Keywords: notes
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We would like to understand why you were Very Dissatisfied with the the ease of opening this service/support request.
Mon, Mar 18th 2013 2:13p Brian Moore I mostly get great support from IBM when I call into Domino support. Except now the phone is answered by what appears to be some outsourced call center that has no clue what they are supporting. I know outsourcing is all the rage, but this does not work in this case. As a programming professional, when I call into support, I expect the person on the line to be familiar with the product. I am not a consumer calling in wondering why I can't get to my email or why the internet is broken, I' [read] Keywords: domino
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Open DocLink in Frameset
Tue, Feb 26th 2013 12:09p Brian Moore I love have brilliant co-workers. I have been working on a project in classic Notes that sent out a view DocLink. I had a request for it to open the database in the frameset used for navigation. By default, a view DocLink will open the database to the default view tree. Workable, but not as nice as the frameset.
I mentioned this to my work partner David Jones and he tole me that if you name the target frame "NotesView" the view DocLink will open in the frameset. I tried it and it worked. Da [read] Keywords: lotus
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NotesViewNavigator - turn off AutoUpdate
Fri, Jan 11th 2013 4:14p Brian Moore I'm a big fan of the NotesViewNavigator. I use it a lot since I can put a view together and see how data is supposed to act, then call from it. I make checklists, tables, documents, all sorts of thing out of it. One of the reasons I like it is because you can work on just a single category and inside the NotesViewNavigator "jump" from category to category if you want.
I was using this today and I was getting an error that it couldn't find the next sibling. I know there where 5, the d [read] Keywords: ibm
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Clear out "ghost" attachments
Fri, Jan 11th 2013 10:12a Brian Moore For a project, I had to provide a way for users to select certain images to delete out of an XPage. Displaying and giving a checkbox to delete was easy - but then I had to actually delete the images. There could be any number of attachments (all images, so I don't need to worry about type), and the user should be able to delete any of the images.
Here is where my problem came up. I could delete the embedded objects from the NotesDocument no problem - but this left "ghosts" in the rich te [read] Keywords: agent
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XPage onBeforePageUnload
Fri, Nov 30th 2012 3:10p Brian Moore This is one of those "I've trooped all over the internet and found the answer sitting at my front door" posts. I'm working on an app, and I have a requirement that if the user tries to navigate away from the page without saving they will get a warning. It's a good idea, and it's something Notes does natively - not so in XPages. I cast around a bit and found onBeforePageUnload, a browser event that can be used in just this situation. So I did some digging trying to integrate it [read] Keywords: notes
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All MIMEs little children
Wed, Nov 14th 2012 9:12p Brian Moore I've used a NotesStream to put a file in a Rich Text Field or MIME quite a number of times over the last few years. Recently, I've needed to expand on this and put multiple attachments in a field. I didn't find much on this, so I thought I'd post. The important trick seems to be setting a ParentEntity. In your typical MIMEEntity, which is "body" in all the examples (including this one) set body as a parent entity. Then create child entities for each file, and stream it in. Here [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Using the Custom REST Control: Notes in 9
Wed, Nov 14th 2012 8:10p Brian Moore I've just done a new Notes in 9 - on using the Custom REST Control - head over and watch it. Here is the full XPage with the control. And here is the script library I used to handled the input.
I also mentioned the Chrome Advanced REST Client and the Firefox RESTClient. I would also suggest looking at JSONLint for checking the JSON format.
A couple of big things to remember when using the REST control - be sure to add the pathInfo to your control, and to reference it in your URL. Set th [read] Keywords: notes
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Get the UNID for Custom REST service toGet method
Tue, Oct 30th 2012 7:15p Brian Moore I bypassed the out-of-the-box REST services to go directly into making custom REST services with the Extension Library. At the moment, I'm working on a couple, but for one I want to respond to a GET request. I've been doing POST, but this was new. The problem I found was how to determine what document I was acting on. The XPage didn't automatically (as far as I can tell) make a connection to the DominoDocument as a data source - even though I had the XPage set to this and to edit or [read] Keywords: notes
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