Last week, when preparing for the XPages Mobile Controls session at BLUG, Eamon Muldoon introduced me to a useful tip when testing on iOS. The problem is that many browsers such as Firefox and Safari use, by default, webkit styling, so use Android stylesheets.

But Safari has an option to change the user agent.

The first step is to enable the Develop menu. Go to Edit – Preferences. Then on the Advanced tab, check Show Develop menu in menu bar.

This will enable the Develop menu. From here you can go to the User Agent submenu and change the user agent to e.g. iPhone, iPad, or choose Other… to set up a custom user agent.

Now you can use the browser to see the iOS stylesheets and simulate functionalityfor a specific user agent.

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When Does a Control That Has An Id, Not Have An Id? Thu, May 23rd 2013 4:18p Paul Withers As part of some work on XPages OpenLog Logger, I’m looking to not only log SSJS errors but also give the facility to push them to an Error control for the relevant component or an Errors control if they are not associated directly to a control. There have been a couple of challenges around this. First, I’m aggregating error objects into a LinkedHashSet so there are no exact duplicates – because dynamically computed properties can be calculated during a number of phases of the X [read] Keywords: xpages java openntf properties

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org.openntf.domino M2 Release and Demo Database Wed, May 22nd 2013 3:20p Paul Withers The second release of org.openntf.domino has today been pushed up to OpenNTF. As I blogged earlier in the week, there are a host of enhancements as well as bug fixes. For those wanting to hit the ground running with the project, I’ve posted a video on what needs deploying to the server and your client, embedded below. For anyone who wants a bit more information on how to use the code and some comparisons, I’ve been working on a sample application. It requires M2 as a minimum. So far [read] Keywords: domino application bug database openntf server

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Update on org.openntf.domino Tue, May 21st 2013 6:18a Paul Withers It’s been a little while since the initial release of org.openntf.domino, but as we’re gearing up towards M2 release, it’s worth giving an update of all the work that’s been going on under the hood. M1 provided the core set of Java code that offered a host of possibilities for looping Collections, avoiding recycle, throwing generic exceptions instead of NotesExceptions and providing the MIMEBean. The jar could also be added to jvm/lib/ext for use in Java agents etc and co [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes xpages application bug database development integration java openntf properties server wiki

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Business Use Cases – Customer Service Sun, May 19th 2013 11:14a Paul Withers The overarching benefit to deploying Social Business solutions in customer service operations is the ability to engage with customers and understand them more deeply. This helps organisations to anticipate and meet their customers’ needs in ways that differentiate them from the competition. If companies could increase customer retention rates by 5%, they could grow their profits by 25% -100%. Frederick Reichheld, The Loyalty Effect According to a recent ITSV CEO study, ‘Getting closer to the [read] Keywords: collaboration applications blogging email

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Social Business Use Cases: Marketing & Sales Sun, May 12th 2013 11:21a Paul Withers Social technologies are being used to gather insights about products and brands, opinions about competitors, and perceptions of market segments. This market research and customer insight can be used as input for product requirements and design, advertising campaigns, pricing, packaging, and other marketing and product development activities. In a recent study of 541 executives at 500 companies, 40% found that they could see specific improvements and increases in sales from social customer relati [read] Keywords: collaboration development mobile

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Java and Selections Part Six: Value Picker Solution Continued Thu, May 9th 2013 4:18p Paul Withers In the previous part I created a ListPicker class that extends IValuePickerData and Serializable. The hasCapability() and getSourceLabels() methods that the IValuePickerData interface requires have been implemented and just return false. In addition to the default constructor public ListPicker(), I’ve created two more: public ListPicker(List) and public ListPicker(Set). Because I’ve just used the generic classes as parameters of the methods, List will take any type of list like an Ar [read] Keywords: ibm ajax apple database interface java javascript openntf properties

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Java and Selections Part Five: Value Pickers Solution Wed, May 8th 2013 7:21a Paul Withers So we’ve added our Value Picker to the XPage, bound the component to an Edit Box or Dojo List Text Box or some other control that’s bound to a field on a Notes Document or viewScope variable. Now we’re ready to go. A dataProvider for a Value Picker needs to implement the Java class com.ibm.xsp.extlib.component.picker.data.IValuePickerData (implement not extend). I also needed to implement Serializable, just like we do with a bean. IValuePickerData is an Extension Library class [read] Keywords: ibm notes database dojo eclipse interface java openntf properties

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Java and Selections Part Four: Value Pickers Introduction Tue, May 7th 2013 8:22a Paul Withers The Extension Library brings a new control to the party, the Value Picker. This gives the user an image or link that spawns a dialog from which they can select one or more options and even search for options. (The Value Picker itself doesn’t differentiate whether or not multiple items can be selected. That’s handled by the component into which the selected values are stored and to which the Value Picker is bound. Logically speaking, the Value Picker is bound to a component – an [read] Keywords: domino xpages apple database dojo java properties

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Java for Selections Part Two: Core Controls and Lists Sat, May 4th 2013 9:21p Paul Withers So enough of the introduction, onto passing some Java to selectors. There are two types of Collections you may have – Lists and Maps. Lists just have values. Maps have keys and values. So if you want the label and the value to be the same, use a List. If you want a different label and value, use a Map, with label in the key and value in the values. I’m going to start simple with Lists and start at the basic level with core controls. This is also relevant to the Dojo controls like Doj [read] Keywords: dblookup domino database dojo java javascript

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Java and Selections Part Three: Core Controls and Sorted Lists Sat, May 4th 2013 9:21p Paul Withers Ok. So we’ve seen we can pass a Vector or an ArrayList into a selectItems control for a Combo Box or Radio Button. And we’ve seen we can pass it via SSJS or EL (but EL is slightly more efficient). That’s all well and good if your options are already unique and already sorted. But what if they’re not. Well you could run an @Unique and a JavaScript sort once you’ve retrieved it. But part of the point of using Java is better performance, easier debugging and avoiding c [read] Keywords: notes xpages application database java javascript