XPages - initial cursor focus
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 1:23p Jerry Shelley How hard can it be to get the cursor placed in an input field on an XPage? Its such an easy thing to do in Client-side JS - place some JS such as font color=#0000ffdocument.forms[(0].InputField2.focus()/font in the onLoad event.br /br /No such luxury in XPages, and I couldnt find any examples in any of the XPage wikis and blogs. Plenty of mentions of dojo.onLoad though, so I thought Id spend a grey Friday afternoon playing. I finally got it to work ... unless the input field in question is a T [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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Two Document Datasources on the same XPage
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 4:22p Jerry Shelley Yet again Ive been getting more and more frustrated with XPages ... and yet again Mr Steve Castledine saves my computer from being thrown out the window.br /br /Its such a natural thing to want to do to have 2 document datasources on the same page. E.g. a Response doc is chosen from an Xpage View, so the first datasource is obviously that document set from the bcontext.getUrlParameter( quot;documentIdquot;);/b. I wanted to find out some info from the Parent doc, so rather than calc in SSJS the [read] Keywords: xpages
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What I think Ive learnt about XPage Core Controls
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Jerry Shelley Ive been playing with XPages for the past 6 months or so without going on any formal courses, just picking it up through the wikis, knowledge bases and blogs that you all probably know about. Its only recently that Ive realised the limitations of fields and binding them to backend data. Heres a brief rundown of my understanding and the limitations imposed by data binding. Please, please feel free to tell me where my understanding is wrong or lacking!br /br /An bEdit Box/b Control, and its varian [read] Keywords: ldd
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Xpages - Document has been modified or corrupted since signed Solution
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Jerry Shelley Ive just spent a few stressful hours trying to figure out how to stop getting the following XPage error :-br /br /quot;Document has been modified or corrupted since signed (data)quot;br /br /I backed out the changes I had made this morning - no change.br /I started taking out Custom Controls until the error stopped, then started reinserting them, which narrowed it down to a few CCs.br /I started removing code from each CC until there was nothing left.br /I started creating new CCs and adding i [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
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Data Entry on a Hand-held Device?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:02a Jerry Shelley One of my clients has the requirement to do data-entry out in the field - literally. Does anyone have any experience of what devices are best to use in such a situation, please?br /br /Currently remote users replicate data to their laptop at home, go visit the client, ask questions, go for a walk around the premises making manual notes, and then enter the data on the kitchen table before printing out a report. What they would like to happen is replicate at home, prime a hand-held device with the [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages through a Firewall?
Sat, Dec 5th 2009 7:58a Jerry Shelley A thought occurred to me recently whilst planning an extranet application for a client - What if you kept no data on the web facing server, all data being read and written through a Firewall to a server in a DMZ? This would have been possible, but clumsy, with using old-skool Domino development of Web Query Save Agents. But now with the luxury of Data Sources within XPages, all data could be defined as being stored inside the Firewall. The DMZ server could be configured only to receive traffic [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages Type Ahead feature with large view
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 12:55p Jerry Shelley With the help of Mark Hughes's blog entry on doing battle with Type Ahead and big Views ... http://dominoextnd.blogspot.com/2009/02/xpages-how-to-make-type-ahead-work-for.html ... I've got it working with 10,000+ view entries. What was missing from Mark's example was how to access the value of what was typed in. He was using a field from a Document to be the key to the DbLookup, whereas I needed to do a lookup using what had been entered into the lookup field. Rummaging around I found "var" lis [read] Keywords: dblookup
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Getting the hang of programming "Show Whens"
Tue, Sep 15th 2009 12:56p Jerry Shelley Having programmed for song long "Hide Whens" in Notes Forms etc, it comes as a pleasant shock to have to program "Show Whens" in XPages, i.e. the "Visible" property of so many different XPage elements. Much more logical (pun intended). I'm sure I will get one right first time sometime soon! [read] Keywords: forms
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Is this XPage feature working as designed?!? XPages coding Question Answered
Wed, Sep 9th 2009 11:56a Jerry Shelley This surely can't be working as designed ... An XPage has :- a View with a clickable column that sets a viewScope var a Data Source document with default action of Edit doc, Doc Id computed from a viewScope var;
an Editable field, data binding to the Data Source;
a Computed Field, value data binding same as Editable field; Click on a value in the clickable column and both the Editable and Computed fields get filled. BUT Switch on "No data validation" for the column, save, reopen the XPage in [read] Keywords: document
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XPages coding Question - Editting Response docs within Parent doc
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 5:54a Jerry Shelley I thought this would be relatively straightforward,but either I'm doing something wrong or it's not possible for some reason ...A main record can have zero to many related entries, which to me means Response docs in Notes. So as part of the data-entry XPage I included a View listing the Responses. And to be clever, I have a set of data-entry fields above the View that allows the user to enter another Response. Got that working no trub. But what I'm struggling with is having the user click on one [read] Keywords: javascript
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XPages HTML - error msg Duplicate method createTable - solution
Thu, Aug 27th 2009 3:44p Jerry Shelley This little problem had me confused for 10 minutes or so - I'm creating a user input form in Xpages using HTML taken from an existing form. Messing around with HTML tables as you do, I saved the page to discover I suddenly had 4 error messages listed in Problems:- "Duplicate method createTable9(FacesContext, UIComponent, PageExpressionEvaluator) in type MIPS.MIPSPage MIPS.java WorkflowXpages5.nsf/Local/xsp line 4507 Java Problem" Double clicking on the error took me to a [read] Keywords: xpages java
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Find & Replace using Regular Expressions in XPage Source
Wed, Aug 26th 2009 9:22a Jerry Shelley I imported a load of HTML into an XPage, with the idea that it would make creating the layout easier. Unfortunately the HTML was not well-formed, missing such things as closing tags off of and , as well as missing quotes around tag parms. It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to use the Find/Replace dialog using Regular Expressions. So, for example, to replace width=300 with width="300" I used :- Find: width=(\d{1,3})(\s) Replace with: width="$1"$2 Let me ex [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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How do you close a database from Developer Client (DDE 8.5)?
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 3:23p Jerry Shelley Has anyone figured out how to get a database to completely close without taking drastic action in the Domino Designer in Eclipse (DDE) Client, please? Try this ... Put a print statement in the Database Script QueryClose event such as Sub Queryclose(Source As Notesuidatabase, Continue As Variant) Print "Goodbye World!" End Sub Save, then close the database tab from DDE, then close Designer Client. Open the database in normal Client and close it. You should see the message in the status b [read] Keywords: designer
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Fascinating LotusScript read
Sun, Aug 23rd 2009 12:26p Jerry Shelley Whilst googling "LotusScript Error 6" I came across a fascinating read by the renowned Julian Robichaux entitled "The [unfinished] LotusScript Book" http://www.nsftools.com/tools/ls-book.pdf I learnt a lot, especially about efficient code writing, even though I've been working with LS since it arrived on the scene (blimey - just googled when that was and it was R4.0 in Jan 1996!). What a great book it would have been if it had been completed. Thanks Julian. [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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I love Full Text Search Live Text...
Wed, Aug 12th 2009 12:44p Jerry Shelley I love "Live Text's" ability to do a Full Text Search. For example if I receive an email containing the key into a document, such as an Order Number or a Licence Id, and it pops up a hotspot to click on... The Live Text function allows me to do a Full Text Search within a specified View for that key ... But can you spot what's missing ? No? It's the Search Bar! You'd think doing a Full Text Search it would be obvious that I need to see the Search Bar. So I have to click on View, "Search this V [read] Keywords: document
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R.I.P. Shift+F9 to calc a formula
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 3:56p Jerry Shelley Just found out that entering an @Formula into a text field and pressing Shift+F9 doesn't work in 8.5 client! Don't Lotus realise how useful that is ... sorry ... was? That means I have to write an agent now. And of course the default for an Agent now is LotusScript, so it's not just a 10 second thing, it's now a 12 second thing, whereas before it was a 1 second thing. Please. pretty please, can we have it back in 8.5.2? [read] Keywords: agent
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