The Lotus Notes In-Built Formula Tester
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 8:55a Paul Withers Here's a nice little tip if you want to check the output from an @Formula. I don't think it's documented anywhere, but I've been using it since R5 (I think) and it's come in quite useful. I'm sure tha ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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I Will Be Speaking at BLUG
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 8:34a Paul Withers Hot on the heels of attending a very interesting presentation skills seminar, I got notification over the weekend that I had been accepted to speak at BLUG (Belux Lotus User Group) on 30th March. My s ... [read] Keywords: lotus
Intec, The X Cast and The XPages Blog
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 2:24p Paul Withers Earlier this month Tim Clark invited me to take part in The X Cast with himself, David Leedy of Notes in 9, and Stephan Wissel. The podcast is now available here. It was an enjoyable experience - more ... [read] Keywords: notes
xpages podcast
XULRunner and XPiNC
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 9:27a Paul Withers Not for the first time I came across something I had not been aware of before, and then had a second occurrence within a week. It's something I'll bear in mind for the future and, as such, I think it' ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Dat Time Picker and Internet Explorer 8
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 9:24a Paul Withers A few weeks ago one of my colleagues was having a problem with the Date Time Picker control in an XPage. You can see an example here. Whenever he clicked the calendar icon, the form refreshed immediat ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Dojox Charting Tutorial - Part Six: Appendices
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 4:15a Paul Withers As I said in Part One, this series came about through an awareness of dojox charting and a desire to investigate its suitability to replace our current third-party solution. At the time I was not awar ... [read] Keywords: xpages
Dojox Charting Tutorial - Part Five: Line Chart HTML Markup
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 7:44a Paul Withers In the previous parts of this tutorial (accessible from the link on the left-hand side of this page) I have shown how to use the dojox charting code to create pie charts, bar charts, column charts, an ... [read] Keywords:
Sleep ? Who needs it !
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers Awake at a ridiculous hour this morning despite wandering around a showery Downtown Disney until quite a creditable time last night - well. ok 10.30 - but I was quite impressed after a transatlantic ... [read] Keywords:
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Lotusphere 2010 - Hopes and Expectations
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers Two firsts in one day. My first blog on the way to my first Lotusphere. As a director of Intec I have been aware of Lotusphere for nearly 10 years, and the first time we sent a delegate was about 7 ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
On the Shoulders of Giants - How We Learn
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers Over the last week I have been doing some investigation on dojox charting, building on the XPages tutorial samples of Chris Connor and the pure dojo tutorials of Doug McMaster and Eugene Latzukin on S ... [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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View Handling and Coincidences
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers It's funny how you rarely use some bits of script, and then within a week find you need them more than once. An example of this I've just had is the NotesViewNavigator class. The only previous occasio ... [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Workaround for Multi-Value Fields - Update
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers Earlier this month I posted an article about multi-value field problems. The good news is it's been SPR'd - reference EGLN7YMLYD. However, while looking into a fellow developer's problems on this ar ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Audit Comments Custom Control: Enhancement
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers A couple of weeks ago I posted on my blog an Audit Comments Custom Control for XPages, which launches a dijit dialog for audit comments when editing a document, and passes the value of the field back ... [read] Keywords: xpages
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Formula Language Errors in XPages
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Paul Withers I was recently working on an XPage, changing a number of things at the same time, and could not manage to get one of my fields with typeahead to work. It did not throw an error to the browser, the XPa ... [read] Keywords: formula language
xpages
Navigating XPages: Where Next?
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 2:57p Paul Withers I'm currently working on an XPages app after a few months back on client development. So there's a bit of trying to remember how to do things, and also some pondering about improving practice. One of ... [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Workaround for Multi-Value Fields Bug
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 1:55p Paul Withers Tommy Valand posted on his blog yesterday and on the Notes 8.5 forum today a bug with multi-value fields. Basically save switches the output between a multi-value field and a semi-colon-separated stri ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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TimeDifference v TimeDifferenceDouble
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 9:00a Paul Withers In the UK, from 1st January the standard TAX rate is returning to 17.5%. This was reduced to 15% on 1st December 2008 to help the economy. With only a week's notice, it also caused headaches for softw ... [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Run in background client thread
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 9:58a Paul Withers Now and then I come across a bit of functionality I never knew about. Occasionally I'm embarrassed to find out it's been there for ages! An example of that is the Run in background client thread optio ... [read] Keywords: lotusscript
XPages: Validation for Radio Buttons - 8.5.1 Issue
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 11:18a Paul Withers First of all, apologies for not making further progress on the validation tutorials. Prior to a customer meeting, I was doing a final review of the mixture of client-side and server-side validation I ... [read] Keywords: xpages server
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Multi-Lingual Mail Template Additions
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 6:45p Paul Withers Yes, modifying the Mail template is to be avoided at all costs. But sometimes the customer needs changes. The scenario we had was a customer requiring CommonStore and DUCS design elements in the same ... [read] Keywords: domino
template
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Views Related to Current Date
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 5:31a Paul Withers One of the functions I found customers often requesting was a view where something in the view selection formula or column formula required comparison to today's date. But we all know @Today is not r ... [read] Keywords: designer
domino
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XPages Favicons
Fri, Sep 18th 2009 8:00a Paul Withers I will be continuing the Validation Series articles, but I just came across this unexpected situation and thought I would blog about it. I tend to do most of my development for the Notes Client, so I ... [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
xpages development
Welcome
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 9:00a Paul Withers Welcome I've always been a bit of a late developer (pardon the pun!), but I thought it was about time I started posting a blog. I'm a relative newbie at Domino Development compared to some - just n ... [read] Keywords: domino
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