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#notes25 - The Party
Mon, Jan 19th 2015 12:10p Christian Guedemann
Could you imagine building a tower only
with news paper and some duck tape? Or are you fast enough to build a puzzle
of 100 pieces in under 5 minutes. You can prove this and more at the unofficial
25 anniversary party, organized by the IBM Champions, SocialBizUG and OpenNTF.
Where: Swan Crescent Terrace
When: Monday 7.30 - 8.30pm
But there is more! You can not only
attend the party, you can be part of the party.
We are looking for volunteers to help
us run the party! There |
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OpenNTF @ IBM ConnectED
Sun, Jan 18th 2015 5:10p Paul Withers
With less than a week to go until IBM ConnectED,
it's a good time to announce what OpenNTF and its board members will be
doing at the conference. Because of the smaller conference, OpenNTF have
not been able to secure a booth in the sponsor area this year. But OpenNTF
and its board members will be very active around the conference.
IBM Champions / OpenNTF / SocialBizUG
Reception, Monday 7.30 - 8.30pm, Swan Crescent Terrace
OpenNTF will join with the IBM Champions
program and Soc |
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XPages Extension Library Stocking Filler
Fri, Dec 19th 2014 9:11a Padraic Edwards
Hopefully the eleventh XPages Extension
Library release for Notes/Domino 9.0.1 will serve as a nice stocking filler
for you all as 2014 draws to close. It's been a great year for XPages
on OpenNTF with a total of nine releases delivering lots of new features
and fixes. This new release is notable for two things in particular. First,
it contains a bunch of fixes and improvements relating to the Bootstrap-based
responsive design offering that shipped in the previous release (901v00_10.201 |
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XPages Goes Responsive
Fri, Dec 5th 2014 10:11a Padraic Edwards
As was recently announced, Bootstrap
is now part of the OpenNTF XPages Extension Library, added in release 10.
The ExtLib includes a new plugin that contains Bootstrap 3.2.0, providing
new renderers for the XPage core controls, the ExtLib controls, and two
new Bootstrap themes. An added benefit of supporting Bootstrap is
that the ExtLib now includes jQuery 2.1.1, giving XPages developers the
power to use jQuery in their apps as well.
As most XPages developers know, Responsive Web Des |
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Latest Release of Extension Library Brings Bootstrap, jQuery, Responsive Design and More
Thu, Nov 20th 2014 4:11p Paul Withers
For the XPages community, this week has
seen some significant announcements and releases on OpenNTF. Indeed, I
don't think it's hyperbole to say this is the most significant addition
of functionality since the Extensibility API and the Extension Library
itself. Covering everything was a webinar yesterday reviewing progress
on the Extension Library this year. If you missed it, the webinar is available
on replay.
The Extension
Library was at the core of the
announcements. The latest |
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OpenNTF at November User Groups
Thu, Nov 13th 2014 5:16p Paul Withers
Next week two board members, Christian
Guedemann and Nathan T Freeman, will be representing OpenNTF at DanNotes.
On Wednesday 14:30 Christian and Nathan will be presenting a session together
entitled "OpenNTF and open source for developers", detailing
plans for OpenNTF over the year to come.
On Thursday, there are three more sessions
by Nathan or Christian:
09:30 OpenNTF, Graphs, and Revolutions
by Nathan T Freeman
Problem: Your Domino domain has thousands
of isolated dat |
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Cast, Counted and Audited - Here are the results of the OpenNTF Board Election!
Thu, Oct 2nd 2014 2:06a Peter Tanner
The votes have been cast, counted and audited,
and OpenNTF has a renewed slate of Directors, five of whom are joining
the Board for the first time.
Member Directors:
Serdar Basegmez - Developi Information Systems
Jesse Gallagher – I Know Some Guys
Christian Guedemann - WebGate
Justin Hill – Prominic
Martin Rolph - Oval
Contributor Directors:
Oliver |
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OpenNTF Election will end October 1.
Fri, Sep 26th 2014 7:12a Peter Tanner
Ballots have now been sent to representatives
of each OpenNTF Member and to all OpenNTF Contributors. If you didn't
receive a ballot, please contact the ip-mamanger at openntf.org.
Votes are due by October 1. |
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The OpenNTF Vote is next week!
Tue, Sep 16th 2014 3:14p Peter Tanner
Ten people involved in OpenNTF's software development
activities have decided to run for the eight Director positions. Six
are running for the five posiitons reserved for employees of Member companies,
and four are running for positions reserved for OpenNTF Contributors.
The vote will be held next week. All people eligible to vote should
have received an email with candidates statements. If you haven't,
please contact ip-manager at openntf dot org
Member Candidates' State |
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OpenNTF Board Elections
Thu, Aug 28th 2014 1:12p Peter Tanner
Nominations are now open for the OpenNTF Board Elections. Several
Board members will not be standing for re-election – so there is certainly
room for new blood.
There are five board positions open for Member Directors (those representing
OpenNTF's member companies) and three board positions open for Contributor
Directors. Member Directors are elected for two years and Contributor
Directors for one year.
So, if you work for an OpenNTF Member company or if you are an |
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XPages RDBMS Support - Recent Improvements
Thu, Aug 21st 2014 6:11a Niklas Heidloff
Below is a video from Brian Gleeson from
the XPages team about improvements to the relational database support.
"In recent releases of the XPages
Extension Library, there have been a number of changes and additions to
the feature that supports Relational Databases in XPages applications.
To ensure that the XPages community is aware of these changes and their
impact, the XPages development team has created the video below.
The video is in two parts and each part
covers the |
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On OpenNTF: xspless - a LESS CSS Builder for Domino Designer
Thu, Jul 3rd 2014 6:12a Mark Leusink
LESS
(Leaner CSS) is a dynamic stylesheet language that allows you to use variables,
nesting, functions (and more) in your CSS file. LESS files can be compiled
into plain CSS file. xspless
is the name of a new project that Jesse Gallagher created. It is a LESS
CSS Builder for Domino Designer. From the documentation:
"This is an Eclipse builder plugin
for Designer. By installing this plugin, right-clicking on an application,
and choosing "Add/Remove LESS CSS Nature", it allows Desi |
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On OpenNTF: PC Config - easy inventarisation of hard- & software
Wed, Jul 2nd 2014 6:12a Mark Leusink
Dominic Shields just released v0.23 of
PC
Config. This Notes client application
can collect all types of information from the PC it runs on with a single
click. It allows you to easily get an overview of the hard- and software
in your organisation. Out of the box it shows you the collected information
in various views (by OS, CPU, RAM, User, Drive space, etc.). It can also
create (Excel) charts from the data it collected.
Examples of the information it collects
are:
OS, CPU, |
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Latest Release of XPages Extension Library Improves RDB Support
Tue, Jul 1st 2014 12:12a Peter Janzen
The 7th
9.0.1 release of the XPages Extension Library
is now available on OpenNTF. Besides providing a number of fixes for existing
features, this release focuses on improving support for using Relational
Databases as a data source. First and foremost, the Relational Database
plugin has been moved out of ExtlibX and into the main Extlib branch. This
now means that when you install v901_r07 of the Extension Library or subsequent
releases, relational database support in XPages will be inst |
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On OpenNTF: ID Vault Scanner for a Hybrid Company using IBM SmartCloud Notes
Mon, Jun 30th 2014 12:55a Niklas Heidloff
Shankar Venkatachalam and J. Rajendran
have published a new project on OpenNTF, called SCN
ID Vault Scanner for a Hybrid Company.
Below is their short description. Read the documentation
to learn more.
"The tool is programmed to compare
the Company directory and the .csv file(IBM SCN Vault users list ) to identify,
how many users doesn't have their ID file on the vault on a single document
. The tool will also identify user's whose ID files are not in the synchronization
state , |
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On OpenNTF: WCM Sample Custom HTML Editor with CodeMirror
Fri, Jun 27th 2014 12:51a Niklas Heidloff
Eric Morentin and Jonathan Booth have published
a new project, called WCM
Sample Custom HTML Editor with CodeMirror.
"In IBM WebSphere Portal v8.5 a
new extension point was exposed within the Web Content Manager (WCM) Authoring
portlet to support replacing all HTML fields with a custom editor.
The extension works in the same way
as all other custom fields of WCM. The extension is documented
with a sample here.
CodeMirror is described on their web
site as “a versatile |
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On OpenNTF: RSS Sample for IBM Digital Data Connector in WebSphere Portal
Fri, Jun 6th 2014 12:22a Niklas Heidloff
Thomas Steinheber and Jonathan Booth have
published a new project, called RSS Sample for IBM
Digital Data Connector in WebSphere Portal.
See below for their description and check out the screenshots.
"Starting with Version 8.0.0.1
CF11 IBM WebSphere Portal includes the Digital Data Connector framework.
It introduces the pattern of using IBM Web Content Manager design components
to render data from arbitrary sources such as Atom feeds and RSS feeds.
This sample builds on top of t |
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On OpenNTF: Theme PAA for IBM WebSphere Portal
Wed, May 28th 2014 12:14a Niklas Heidloff
Stephan Hesmer and Jonathan Booth have
open sourced a new project, called Theme
PAA for IBM WebSphere Portal which
provides access to the Portal 8.5 Theme as a PAA
(Portal Application Archive) deliverable. Below is their description. Stephan
also blogged
recently about the theme enhancements in 8.5.
"This project provides access to
the IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 Theme as a PAA deliverable.
The Theme PAA is a great tool to quickly
get started with your own theme as well as a grea |
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On OpenNTF: Change Tracking for IBM Domino Directory
Tue, May 20th 2014 11:34p Niklas Heidloff
Shankar Venkatachalam has published a new
project “Change
Tracking for IBM Domino Directory”.
"We have created an application
called “Change Tracking for IBM Domino Directory”. As the name indicates,
the application tracks the changes in person and group documents in the
IBM Domino Directory. The application reports what has changed, who has
made the change and when the change has happened.
The application works for IBM Domino
version 6 to 9 as well as i |
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OpenNTF.org remembers Tim Tripcony #codefortim
Tue, May 20th 2014 2:11p OpenNTF
The entire OpenNTF.org community was shocked
last week to learn about the death of Tim Tripcony. Tim was a prolific
contributor to OpenNTF.org, both with his own projects and his collaboration
on the XPages Extension Library and the OpenNTF.org Domino API. Tim was
a big supporter of open source and the IBM XPages community. His death
touches every one of us personally.
In an effort to remember Tim’s amazing
contributions to our community, the OpenNTF.org board would like to inv |
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On OpenNTF: User Rename Readiness Tool for IBM SmartCloud Notes
Tue, May 6th 2014 12:58a Niklas Heidloff
J Rajenderan and Shankar Venkatachalam
have contributed a new project called User
Rename Readiness Tool for IBM SmartCloud Notes.
The tool helps to rename user names, for example when people got married,
in both the on premises applications and IBM SmartCloud Notes. Below is
the description from J Rajenderan and Shankar Venkatachalam. You can find
out more by reading the documentation.
"What is this tool and when is
it to be used?
This tool is programmed to look at the
relevant o |
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IBM Social Business Toolkit News
Tue, Apr 29th 2014 2:25a Niklas Heidloff
There are a lot of news related to the
IBM
Social Business Toolkit. Below
are some of the blogs
that IBM has published this month.
Social Business Toolkit functionality:
API
for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Resellers to manage Customers
User
Interface Extensions for IBM Connections in the Cloud
Reuse
the SmartCloud for Social Business Banner in Apps
PHP
and the Social Business Toolkit: Some Newsworthy Updates
Community related news:
All
abo |
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Register Now for the OpenNTF Annual General Meeting
Mon, Apr 14th 2014 6:11a Christian Guedemann
On Thursday, April 17, 2013 from 11am-12pm
EDT, OpenNTF will host its Annual General Meeting. This is an opportunity
for anyone interested in the activities and direction of OpenNTF to participate
in discussions on the future of OpenNTF.
Use the following link to register for
the AGM and join us on April 17.
We have a lot of interesting topics
to share and discus with you!
I'm looking forward to see you
Christian |
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On OpenNTF: Script Portlet Samples for IBM WebSphere Portal
Wed, Apr 9th 2014 12:41a Niklas Heidloff
Jonathan Booth has contributed a new project,
called Script
Portlet Samples for IBM WebSphere Portal.
See below for his description. Attend the webinar
on April 30th to learn more about script portlets. You can find details
about the project in the documentation.
"With the recently-released IBM
Script Portlet for WebSphere Portal, you can use JavaScript/HTML/CSS to
create new portlets without deploying code on the server. You can take
an existing script application, copy/paste into |
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On OpenNTF: Agendas for Meeting Rooms displayed in front of the Rooms
Tue, Apr 8th 2014 12:32a Niklas Heidloff
Itay Cohen, Boaz Mizrachi, Yaniv Agam and
Asher Chen have contributed a new project, called Resource
Agenda Presenter. Here is their
description:
"The RAP application is a system
which works in collaboration with the Rooms & Resources application
and supplies an on-line rooms/resource agenda on displays located next
to the room/resource and includes the time of event, event owner and event
subject (can be disabled). The system is an HTML based and therefore supports
any OS usin |
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REST API to read Projects from OpenNTF
Wed, Mar 26th 2014 2:25a Niklas Heidloff
There are more than 850 projects on OpenNTF
and many different types of projects which makes it sometimes hard to find
the projects certain types of developers are looking for. In order to address
this OpenNTF introduces the notion of "project spaces" to group
similar types of projects together. Example spaces could be everything
related to social or everything related to IBM WebSphere Portal.
OpenNTF contributors can request spaces
if they have contributed several projects and hav |
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Over 100 Days as OpenNTF Chairman - a short recap
Tue, Mar 25th 2014 3:15a Christian Guedemann
My first 100 Days as OpenNTF Chairman where
absolute awesome. Let's have a look back and see what's happened in this
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On OpenNTF: IBM Web Experience Factory Builder for creating JavaScript-based Portlets
Mon, Mar 24th 2014 1:12a Niklas Heidloff
Jonathan Booth has contributed a new project
to OpenNTF - Script
Application Builder for IBM Web Experience Factory.
"This is a builder for IBM Web
Experience Factory that automates a common pattern for building JavaScript-based
portlets that run on IBM WebSphere Portal. With a single builder you can
implement a script-based portlet or page within a portlet using JS/HTML/CSS
that you provide. Additionally, the builder automatically generates JavaScript
variables that enable JSON/RES |
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Please join us for the OpenNTF Annual General Meeting
Thu, Mar 20th 2014 3:11p Per Henrik Lausten
On Thursday, April 17, 2013 from 11am-12pm
EDT, OpenNTF will host its Annual General Meeting. This is an opportunity
for anyone interested in the activities and direction of OpenNTF to participate
in discussions on the future of OpenNTF.
As the Agenda shows, there will be reports
from the various groups within OpenNTF, and more importantly be time to
ask questions, make suggestions, and get involved.
The meeting will be held via a teleconference
and the dial in numbers are listed |
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Overview of the XPages Scaffolding Project on OpenNTF
Thu, Mar 20th 2014 6:11a Jesse Gallagher
A little while ago, I created a new project
from one of my GitHub repositories: XPages
Scaffolding. At its core, Scaffolding
is the template that I use when creating new XPages projects, and it contains
a number of features that I've built up over the years to make the process
of building a clean XPages app easier. These range from small utility features
like a flashScope object to larger frameworks such as the current versions
of my controller and model frameworks.
More specificall |
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New Functionality in the Single Page Application Wizard for XPages
Wed, Mar 12th 2014 1:13a Niklas Heidloff
Gary Marjoram has provided a video demonstrating
the new functionality of the Single Page Application Wizard that is available
in the latest version of the XPages
Extension Library. |
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On OpenNTF: Automated Dead Mail Deletion App
Wed, Mar 5th 2014 12:23a Niklas Heidloff
Shankar Venkatachalam has contributed a
project to OpenNTF, called Automated
Dead Mail Deletion App.
"This application helps IBM Domino
administrators in clearing/purging the dead emails from one or more domino
servers of their organisation automatically.
Design Algorithm:
1) The application server first read
it's configuration document, and take a connection to that server.
2) The application also reads the configuration
document to understand, how many mail.box are availa |
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New Release of the XPages Extension Library
Tue, Mar 4th 2014 2:15a Niklas Heidloff
Paul Hannan has uploaded a new release
of the XPages
Extension Library.
"This release is the fourth IBM
Notes Domino 9.0.1 version of the XPages Extension Library (ExtLib) to
OpenNTF. Again it closely matches the XPages Extension Library that is
currently in Notes Domino 9.0.1 and contains new support, enhancements
and a number of bug fixes. This release continues the improvements 9.0.1
ExtLib which we hope you will enjoy.
The MOBILE area is continuing theme
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2000 XPages Questions on StackOverflow
Wed, Feb 19th 2014 12:10a Niklas Heidloff
What a great story. Two
years ago the XPages community
decided to use StackOverflow for XPages related specific questions and
answers. Since then 2000 questions have been asked and 84% of them have
been marked as answered.
One advantage of StackOverflow is that
XPages developers can get help from other developers who might not even
know anything about XPages. For example questions about Java are often
answered by Java developers. Another advantage of StackOverflow is the
nice |
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On OpenNTF: Demo code for C&S APIs
Thu, Feb 13th 2014 12:17a Niklas Heidloff
Nathan Barry and James Cooper have published
the sample
code they used in their IBM Connect
session "AD204: What's new in the IBM Domino Objects: By Example".
Abstract: "Through a series of
demos, we will showcase and explain use cases for the major enhancements
to the back-end classes included in release IBM Domino 9.01 and 9.0 in
the areas of Calendar & Scheduling and View Navigation." |
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On OpenNTF: XPages Unit Test Samples
Wed, Feb 12th 2014 12:03a Niklas Heidloff
Padraic Edwards has published the samples
he, Brian Gleeson and Martin Donnelly used in their IBM Connect session
"AD208 - End to End Quality Processes for Top Notch XPages Apps".
"When it comes to getting XPages
apps ready for production there's a lot to know. Do you have a web test
automation suite in place to drive your apps through the browser and guarantee
quality? Do you have a JUnit test framework to exercise your XPages components?
Is your application accessible to the lat |
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On OpenNTF: Social Edition of the Trouble Tickets App
Mon, Feb 10th 2014 11:43p Niklas Heidloff
At Connect a new version of the trouble
tickets app was demonstrated.
Below Brian Gleeson describes the new version.
"The Social Edition is a further
evolution of the Trouble Tickets application, showing the power of the
Social Business Toolkit (SBT) XPages library in an application. By leveraging
the SBT, you can seamlessly integrate IBM Connections content & functionality
into XPages applications. As well as that, an XPages mobile interface has
been added to the application, s |
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Infinite Scrolling in Mobile XPages Apps
Mon, Feb 10th 2014 1:03a Niklas Heidloff
At Connect 2014 the XPages team showed
the new infinite scroll feature for views in mobile apps. See the video
from Dario Chimisso and Tony McGuckin to see this feature in action.
Here is Dario's description:
"Infinite Scroll is a new feature
included in the extension library release as part of the OpenNTF
project. You've probably seen the nice work done by Keith Strickland about
wrapping a dataview with a dojo scrollablePane, we've taken the same approach
and improved |
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Wizard to create XPages based Mobile Apps
Wed, Feb 5th 2014 11:55p Niklas Heidloff
At Connect Gary Marjoram, Jonathan Roche
and Eamon Muldoon demonstrated the new wizard in IBM Domino Designer to
create typical mobile business apps with views and documents.
Gary's description: "The Single
Page Application Wizard allows you to create an initial design framework
for your XPages mobile application. It was published to OpenNTF.org on
the 13th Dec 2013 as part of the XPages
Extension Library."
Below is a demo from Gary.
Here is the deck from t |
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IBM Connect 2014 - BP207 - Don’t Reinvent the Wheel - (Re)use Open Source Software From OpenNTF
Tue, Feb 4th 2014 1:20a Niklas Heidloff
Below is the deck from the OpenNTF IBM
Connect 2014 session. |
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Some Pictures from IBM Connect 2014
Mon, Feb 3rd 2014 1:28a Niklas Heidloff
OpenNTF booth:
Christian Guedemann and Niklas Heidloff
before the OpenNTF session:
OpenNTF BOF session at 7:00 AM:
OpenNTF stickers:
Lars Buntrock, Henning Schmidt, Nathan
Freeman, Serdar Basegmez and Christian Guedemann: |
