Distribution of the extension library
Mon, Apr 29th 2013 4:07a Patrick Kwinten I have written a document on the distribution of the extension library. I have compared Upgrade Pack installation option with using an Update Site. You may guess who has become the winner. If there is anything incorrect stated in the document please let me know.
PDF: Distribution Extension Library [read] Keywords:
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LotusScript equivalent for @Command TextSetFontColor?
Wed, Apr 24th 2013 9:27a Patrick Kwinten In an form I have an action button:
Unfortunately this TextSetFontColor command only allows these colors:
Black
Gray
Red
DarkRed
Green
DarkGreen
Blue
DarkBlue
Magenta
DarkMagenta
Yellow
Brown
Cyan
DarkCyan
White
In the Help file it says:
Language cross-reference
NotesColor property of LotusScript NotesRichTextStyle class
Is there anyone who has written the LotuScript equivalent to change the color of selected text in a rich text field (with RGB value)? [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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jQCloud gone bad (jQuery Tag Cloud plugin in XPages)
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 12:04p Patrick Kwinten I had the idea to make a custom control to make the display of a categorized view more attractive. Quickly you come to tag clouds. While the extension library has an easy to use tagcloud control you probably want to have a result that looks more like this:
jQCloud is a JQuery based plugin that does a bit of the trick for you. Unfortunately it seems the link option can not handle question mark parameters so an .xsp?filter= link does not work. This makes the plugin little of interest. Nevertheles [read] Keywords: ibm
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CALENDARIO: A responsive calendar plugin
Mon, Apr 8th 2013 7:07a Patrick Kwinten Calendars can be a very tricky thing when it comes to their layout and responsiveness. Calendrio is a jQuery plugin to display a calendar layout for both, small and big screens and keeping the calendar structure fluid when possible.
Here follows a brief description how you can utilize the plugin in your IBM Notes – XPages application.
Resources
Copy the resources to the WebContent folder via the Package Explorer:
Calendar display
Next I created an XPage to display the calendar:
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jQuery Mobile 1.3 Panel Widget XPages demo (for download)
Thu, Mar 28th 2013 6:29a Patrick Kwinten The last couple of days I have been ‘playing’ with jQuery Mobile and mostly with the panel widget.
I have made some kind of starter-kit (NSF) to build a great XPages app for tablets/smartphones. I have setup a subset of custom controls which accept properties. A simple form in Notes you can use to setup navigation for header, footer and a vertical menu.
You can download the (zipped) NSF on Dropbox.
Below you can see a sample result:
Please let me know if you experience any problems [read] Keywords: lotus
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New job/opportunity wanted
Wed, Mar 27th 2013 4:12a Patrick Kwinten The last year(s) I have followed the Dutch saying:
A rolling stone does not gather moss
But I have come to a point where my current job hinders my creativity and my ambitions too much. Therefor I have decided it is time to make my desire for a new more challenging work environment more clear.
I have added a noticeable image in a widget on the right of this blog that will remain there until the time necessary.
My strengths are:
Understanding of web development and standards.
The IBM Notes platf [read] Keywords: administration
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Adding resources that include parameters (xpages tip)
Tue, Mar 26th 2013 6:05a Patrick Kwinten You have several options how to include resources (e.g. css files) that include query parameters. What does not seem to work is to add such a style sheet reference via the Resources Style sheet option.
However if you add the reference as a linked resource things seem to work e.g.
I am not sure if this is the proper or preferred way to add such resource? [read] Keywords: ldd
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jQuery Mobile in XPages- Panel Widget
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 1:46p Patrick Kwinten jQuery Mobile 1.3 is recently released. This release is focused on elevating responsive web design (RWD) and brings lots of cool new widgets including panels, dual handle range sliders, and two different responsive table modes.
Panel widget
One of the most common mobile UI patterns you see today are Facebook-style panels that open to reveal a menu, form or other content.
The flexible panel widget allows panels to be positioned on the left or right of the screen. To take this widget respons [read] Keywords: ibm
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An Anatomy of an Adaptive Web Experience – Brad Frost
Thu, Mar 7th 2013 7:22a Patrick Kwinten Responsive web design is becoming more clearly an important specification from our customers. Allthough the customer is mostly already satisfied when we port the same UI to different devices, responsive web design is just the top of the iceberg when we talk about optimizing web enabled Notes applications for different devices.
Today I followed a presentation from Brad Frost held at the Smashing conference 2012. You can find the slides also on Slideshare.
After the presentation I checked a coupl [read] Keywords: ibm
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Creating a gallery for the IBM Domino Blog Template – Assistance needed
Tue, Mar 5th 2013 6:42a Patrick Kwinten Hi,
I found online an old description how to enable image galleries for your/the IBM Domino Blog Template (Not sure if we may label it IBM any longer since they have open sourced it so the ‘community’ may solve issues (I am told).
The description you can find .
Unfortunately the description does not work for me. Are there others who set up successfully image galleries in the Blog template and are willing to share their solutions/approach?
Related information:
http://www.slideshare.ne [read] Keywords: domino
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Correct content-type
Tue, Jan 15th 2013 7:05a Patrick Kwinten I received a call that an ‘aged’ Domino application was causing problems in IE9. Stylesheets documents created by a form were not strict text/css but text/html instead.
Even though the On Web Access Content-type form properties were set correct.
After some digging & trying I ran into the following post that solved the case:
I normally use a simple document for stylesheets and JavaScript libraries in Notes. The form has a field for the “filename” (e.g. my_lib.js) an [read] Keywords: domino
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SNTT – Usemap & XPages
Thu, Dec 6th 2012 3:02a Patrick Kwinten Introduction
I thought I write this one down. A developer asked me how to make a form more user-friendly. Basically a user reports via the form a problem somewhere in the building to the central desk and they send a mechanic. To have a more precise allocation of the problem, a room number is required to fill in.
I suggested to use an image map. There are sites around that help you define the correct coordinates.
XPages
In DDE add an image as a resource. Drag that same image into your XPage. In t [read] Keywords: ibm
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New project on OpenNTF – Timeglider
Wed, Nov 28th 2012 5:26a Patrick Kwinten Today I posted a new project on OpenNTF:
Timeglider JS is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline widget written in Javascript.
This project delivers an XPages application to manage the documents in a Notes DB so you can distribute corporate timelined information with Notes security (ACL).
More details you can read on OpenNTF. [read] Keywords: acl
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New release of Bildr
Thu, Nov 22nd 2012 1:42p Patrick Kwinten I have submitted a new release of my Bildr project on OpenNTF.
In case you are unaware of this project, the application allows you to quickly upload and share images within your network. Images are scaled and you can group them in albums.
The idea behind this app was to have a real case scenario to learn XPages, and frankly the learning experience has gone beyond expectations. I also have to thank Mark Leusink for his contributions.
This release fixes the problems I had with Google Maps. Althoug [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Download: Twitter Bootstrap in Domino Blog
Thu, Nov 15th 2012 3:02a Patrick Kwinten Have you sometimes the feeling that in case you know too much it may be used against you?
Recently I posted how to include Twitter Bootstrap in the IBM Domino Blog template. Some time ago I blogged frequently about administrating that same Blog application.
From my Twitter Bootstrap post I received some questions from people for help so the easiest way to assist would be to make an example application available for downloading. The NSF contains all the documents that are needed to utilize (or [read] Keywords: acl
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Zähme den Tiger – Java entwicklung in Notes & Domino
Tue, Nov 6th 2012 2:42p Patrick Kwinten Introduction
Today I read this presentation by Bernd Hort held at EntwicklerCamp 2012. Judging fromthe different presentations this sounds like a excellent conference!
This was a nice opportunity to rehearse my German. In case your German is not so good I recommend to listen to a couple of albums of these guys and you will do just fine =)
The presentation can be divided into 2 parts:
A general introduction to the Java language.
Java in Notes & Domino in details.
Introduction Java language
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AD104 Intro to Managed Beans (Russel Maher, MWLUG 2012)
Fri, Nov 2nd 2012 1:02p Patrick Kwinten Introduction
This presentation was not on my initial ‘to-study list’ so I will add it there. The presentation was held by Russel Maher at the MWLUG 2012.
Not surprisingly this presentation has quiet some familiarities with the presentation Improving XPages Application Performance with Managed Beans (Russell Maher, The View Advanced Xpages 2012).
Same presenter, similar topic.
Beginnings
Why use beans, managed beans and Java in your XPage projects:
Makes your applications run faste [read] Keywords: domino
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Bathing tip
Sat, Oct 13th 2012 4:02a Patrick Kwinten At the moment I am re-reading some presentations from ‘last’ Lotusphere events. I prefer to do this while enjoying a looooooong bath. Sometimes a laughter escapes the bathroom.
Here is an example of such an occasion. From ‘Session JMP302: Using Themes to control the look and feel of your XPages applications’ [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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New release of Bildr released =)
Sun, Sep 23rd 2012 1:02p Patrick Kwinten Today I released a new version of my xpages playground aka Bildr (4.01 so never mind the bugs) on OpenNTF (link).
Beside the following ‘small media campaign’:
and this blog-post we’ll see how people pick up this new release.
What’s new?
Extension Library
Personally I have been working quite a while now with the extension library, and now I have implemented this more in the application:
Application Layout control
Data view control
Widget control
Outline control
Mobile [read] Keywords: ldd
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Teamroom XL fix – Filter documents by subteam
Tue, Sep 11th 2012 4:02a Patrick Kwinten Some may enjoy a longer vacation than others, most of us will land in the same nest again.
At the moment we are reviewing the Teamroom 8.5.3 XL template, to check if this is a more user-friendly mobile interface for document sharing solution than MS SP.
However I noticed a problem with Subteam filtering option in the ‘All documents’ view. The problem is that the xvwDocsByTeam view is not correct (the wrong field name is present in the view design)…
Here is the fix:
Open xvwDoc [read] Keywords: interface
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Bildr on Extension Library (work in progress)
Tue, Jul 10th 2012 6:30a Patrick Kwinten In the last week before vacation I have some time left for some experiment. So I decided after reading the extension library guide to start rewriting the Bildr project on OpenNTF. Untill now I have come pretty far and the first results look promising. Not sure if I can manage to finalize the project before the end of the week, but let’s think positive!
Below some screenshots so far… [read] Keywords: facebook
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demo code XPages & SAP
Tue, Jun 26th 2012 7:49a Patrick Kwinten I am working on an demo app that is going to read data from SAP. I noticed some helpful code in AD404 Presentation - Extend your Social Business by integrating SAP Solutions
Java Code for Integration Bean:
package com.ibm.chi;
import org.odata4j.consumer.ODataConsumer;
import org.odata4j.consumer.behaviors.BasicAuthenticationBehavior;
import org.odata4j.core.OEntity;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class GWWorkflow {
private ArrayL [read] Keywords: ibm
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New version of CardScanR released on OpenNTF
Thu, May 10th 2012 5:24a Patrick Kwinten The previous version of my project on OpenNTF never made it to the catalog due to some issues with used code (I never bothered to mention it in any notice file).
I thought it would be easier in future updates to be more independent from used examples so I rebuild the application with help of the extension library and especially the application layout control.
I also applied the 8.5.3 themes.
Here you can find the new release:
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/releases.xsp?action=openDocum [read] Keywords: application
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Data Source Events
Fri, May 4th 2012 4:05a Patrick Kwinten I am currently working on transforming an existing Domino app into an Xpages app. Therefor I took another close look on the Data Source Events as described in the Mastering XPages book. Here is a summary:
A data source on an XPage has many similar events as the traditional Domino document.
Event
Trigger
computeDocument
Create new document
Submit document
Reloade XPage
Open document
queryNewDocument
Create document
Reload XPage
postNewDocument
Create document
Reload XPage
q [read] Keywords: domino
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XPage Events – onClientLoad
Fri, May 4th 2012 12:24a Patrick Kwinten Did you know that:
The onClientLoad event is the only event that executes both client and server-side code.
and
If the CSJS in the onClientLoad event returns “false,” the SSJS is never executed. [read] Keywords: facebook
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New release of Viewr on OpenNTF
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 8:24a Patrick Kwinten Awrighty, just before the weekend I managed to squeeze out some work that had landed on the shelf. It’s a new version of the Viewr application I have submitted to OpenNTF.
Main changes for this app is the implementation of Oneui v2.11 and the extension library (as part of the upgrade pack 1).
The app needs some more work (I started with a mobile interface which is not finished yet, maybe in a 2.1 version). Ofcourse you are free to submit your contributions to the project
Nevertheless enj [read] Keywords: application
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How to style a login link (mobile controls)
Tue, Apr 10th 2012 2:23p Patrick Kwinten I posted the following question “How to style a link control in page heading control (mobile)” on the xpages forum and received some guidance (thanx).
After a closer look at the solution in the teamroom template, I was not 100% happy with it. Basically if you will add another Button (or Link) control in the Page Heading control right action facet, there is an overlap. Also the presentation and coloring differs somewhat.
In order to avoid this I modified the following definition in m [read] Keywords: ldd
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Working with LinkedIn in XPages – Presenting a User’s Network Stream
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 8:04a Patrick Kwinten Here is another example for accessing LinkedIn’s API’s in XPages. This example contains code for a custom control that will present the users network stream:
// Build each individual stream update item
person = thisupdate.updateContent.person
var thisHTML = “”;
// Person’s picture, linked name, and status
thisHTML += “” ;
thisHTML += “”;
thisHTML += “”;
thisHTML += “” + person.firstName + ” & [read] Keywords: ibm
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New OpenNTF project released: LinkedIn Controls
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 8:24a Patrick Kwinten I have released a new project on OpenNTF called LinkedIn Controls. The goal for this project is to deliver plugins to LinkedIn in the form of reusable custom controls.
With this you should be able to easily ‘linkify’ an XPages application. For example you can extend the discussion database with calls to linkedin (members, companies).
Ultimate goal would be to make mash-up applications for LinkedIn with XPages. We’ll see how for we will come… [read] Keywords: mash-up
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Code templates in DDE: demonstration of CSS template.
Mon, Mar 12th 2012 8:24a Patrick Kwinten In presentation AD103 ‘Embracing the EclipseTM Within’ Maureen Leland says (slide 14):
Code templates can be a tremendous time saver, and help implement common team conventions
Well received for LotusScript, but also available for:
Java
CSS
HTML
XML
If you take stylesheets for example, you can import them from the Database Navigator. But maybe you work on new projects where the stylesheets differ but you want to re-use a genuine setup of the file, setting up templates in Desig [read] Keywords: domino
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Superfluous Space – Mobile Controls
Wed, Mar 7th 2012 6:03a Patrick Kwinten Today I discovered the cause to a problem I was having with the dataview in a mobile control, and hopefully it will help others.
The dataview control was not rendered properly for a mobile device so the specified target page could not be reached and an error throwed up:
It turned out that the line xsp.theme.mobile.pagePrefix=m_ located the xsp.properties file in the Web ContentWEB-INF folder contained one superfluous space at the end.
Probably sooner or later more people will be facing sa [read] Keywords: ldd
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#XPages: tagcloud control can not reside in custom control?
Wed, Feb 22nd 2012 4:04a Patrick Kwinten I am currently testing 8.5.3+ (upgrade pack 1) and as a use case I am rebuilding Viewr available on OpenNTF.
My first impression on Designer’s behaviour is not really positive, I believe my 8.5.2 installation is more stable than the 8.5.3 one.
Nevertheless, it rises some Xpages related questions for example the next one:
I am trying to develop more via components, that is custom controls that will be steered via property definitions. I have created a custom control to display a widget comp [read] Keywords: lotus
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Help appreciated on the Domino Blog template – Display a list of uploaded files
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 3:42a Patrick Kwinten I want to create a list of all the files users have created under ‘Uploaded files’ and display this somewhere HTML Block Template. Does anyone know which DXTag to use or other alternatives? (computed text?).
I have posted my question on OpenNTF:
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/discussion.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=45A97957524DF1FD8625799E003995E4 [read] Keywords: domino
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Updated my curriculum vitae
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 3:03a Patrick Kwinten I guess it was time to update my curriculum vitae. Added attendance to #ls12. You can open the document linked on the right column or via the following link: http://quintessens.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=1151 [read] Keywords: facebook
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Question after Lotusphere – Notes Social Edition
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 3:03a Patrick Kwinten Yesterday I read a list of reviews of Lotusphere 2012. Especially around the next version of Notes, Notes Social Edition (hopefully will become nicknamed Notes Social Addiction) I have some questions. Maybe you can provide me more details?
From Alan Lepofsky’s blogpost:
The next version of Lotus Notes, named Social Edition will include a new Home Page featuring the same activity stream that is available to Connections users on the web. This new feature will require an IBM Connection server [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino Blog tip: set XML/Content Encoding value
Tue, Jan 24th 2012 5:42a Patrick Kwinten Apologies that this blog starts to look more like an archive but I have been lately been involved in non-development activities like attending Lotusphere 2012. I will write later an article on that one.
Today I received an incident report from a collegue about a problem with the Domino blog template (the one everybody wants to have with XPages, hint IBM (this time with documentation))…
The RSS feeds were broken, or at least throwing up an error. It turned out to be that Swedish characters [read] Keywords: domino
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IdeaSpace for Bildr
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 6:43a Patrick Kwinten Niklas has been so nice to setup an IdeaSpace for Bildr on OpenNTF:
http://openntf.org/ideajam/ideajam.nsf/ProductByAreaMostRecent?openview&restricttocategory=Bildr
Please drop here you suggestions / ideas for the application [read] Keywords: application
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Registering dependencies in Lotus Notes applications
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 6:22a Patrick Kwinten Domino Designer gives you a nice overview of all plugin dependencies in your application. But regarding other dependencies (e.g. data sources from other notes applications or from other systems) there is no automatic generation of an overview.
Question:
How and which dependencies in your Notes applications do you register? Do you generate the overview manually or is there a tool you use for this? [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Punk – Teachers
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 8:03a Patrick Kwinten For another activity I was looking for a tool to change voice tones. After a search I stranded at Audacity.
The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
For fun I decided to try to make a copy of Daft Punk’s Teachers and to honour you guys out there =) [read] Keywords: domino
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Crash course application layout control
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 1:03p Patrick Kwinten I am working on a small project that should deliver a web application to support online marketing campaigns. The application will provide different types of content (e.g. pages, video, images, forum, agenda). For most of these items I have found custom controls on OpenNTF or in the Extension Library.
For the layout I have choosen the Application Layout control from the Extension Library. Thomas Adrian showed a wizard function in version 8.5.3 but unfortunately our environment is still on 8.5.2.
[read] Keywords: domino
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New Extension Library (8.5.3) and mixed environments
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 4:03a Patrick Kwinten More an more people are embracing the Extension Library for 8.5.3. I have posted a question on the project page on OpenNTF.
I am wondering how much an upgrade will affect all clients? (server, designer, normal user)
Do I have to upgrade all environments or can they happily live with each other as long as I do not use the new controls?
Our upgrade path looks normally as followed:
upgrade Development environment
upgrade Designer clients
upgrade Test environment
upgrade Production environment
upgr [read] Keywords: xpages applications
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New OpenNTF contribution: ccFlickrBomb
Sun, Oct 23rd 2011 2:22p Patrick Kwinten Last Friday I had some spare hours left before calling it a week so started a new, simple project on OpenNTF called ccFlickrBomb:
flickrBomb provides an easy way for you to rapidly fill your prototypes with relevant content, and not just those dull gray placeholder images.
So basically ccFlickrBomb is a custom control that allows you to display a search query on Flickr in a more fashionable way. Enjoy! [read] Keywords: facebook
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FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TABLE) not always working
Mon, Oct 10th 2011 4:03a Patrick Kwinten We have a rather large instalment base of a Notes application to publish webpages. Documents are created in Notes and viewed in a web browser.
From a user perspective it is quiet normal to select content from a website and paste it in Notes. Sometimes the number of nested (more: nasty) tables get’s too large and the document can not be opened anymore in Notes.
I am no expert in rich text but there seem to be some LotusScript methods available to read/write to rich text. For example Find [read] Keywords: agent
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Domino blog template – automatic page name
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 8:43a Patrick Kwinten I started a discussion on OpenNTF on the project place for the Domino Blog template: (link)
I would expect that the setting would create a bit more user-friendly url’s but somehow this feature does not seem to work as expected. Has anyone a clue why this does not work on my blog app? It seems to work for others…
I notice e.g. for Swedish names including öäå the usage of user initials could cause problems using the default page name syntax generation… [read] Keywords: domino
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No more a Domino developer -> XPage designer =)
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 2:23p Patrick Kwinten I was reading an article on Smashing Magazine and noticed somewhere a link to CV Parade. I was a bit shocked about the state of my own CV (still in a deadly boring Word document) so I decided to polish it up.
Below is the result:
I hope you like it. [read] Keywords: domino
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Admin question: Does $$ReturnAuthorizationFailure works with session based authentication?
Wed, Sep 28th 2011 5:43a Patrick Kwinten I tried to implement a custom web authentication error page on application level based on these guidelines: link.
Unfortunately, the custom $$ReturnAuthorizationFailure form never appears when accessing a document I did not have access to. Instead the default error page is being displayed.
I found a discussion on the ND 4/5 forum:
Is it possible to use custom forms when using session based authentication? (link)
One answer says Yes, the other says No. Which one is correct? [read] Keywords: admin
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Nest-y tables in Lotus Notes
Mon, Sep 12th 2011 4:06a Patrick Kwinten Today appeared an incident on my desk. A customer has problems with the number of nested tables in a rich text field.
It is unclear how they landed in the situation because if I nest some tables in my mail I get the warning:
Nevertheless the customer has a problem that needs to be fixed so I wonder what my options are?
Copy the rich text in a memo document and hope for the best that the number of nested tables is equal or less than the maximum number of 8
Find a tricky way to navigate through [read] Keywords: ibm
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CardScanR available on OpenNTF
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 7:24a Patrick Kwinten I finalized an initial (and presumably final) release on OpenNTF, available here.
The application is a simple contact registration application and ofcourse XPages based. I think the application can be a great start to extend it as an inquiry application…
Personally I learned a bit more on combining LS agents with XPages, navigation rules and ofcourse the OneUI user interface definition (still a puzzle sometimes). [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Fun with Slideshare
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 6:42a Patrick Kwinten I was surfing on Slideshare when I found the following Technical Sales mastery test example. Here a sample question:
2. What is XPages?
A. A runtime designed to generate modern Web applications
B. A page with eXtra code for advanced end-user functionality
C. A way to present COBOL data inside of a Notes application
D. A runtime designed by Professor Charles Xavier
Maybe technical sales is something for you? [read] Keywords: ibm
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VIIP – Very important import agent
Mon, Aug 29th 2011 4:42a Patrick Kwinten Today I received a request from a customer for an addition in a Notes template we offer as a ‘standardized solution’. The customer asks for an agent to import documents from another Notes database into a databases that uses this ‘standard template’.
A great compliment for our developers since our template seems to be competitive with another solution!
Since the number of databases that contain documents that must migrate is not so large I feel little to grant this request [read] Keywords: agent
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Work in progress – CardScanR
Tue, Aug 16th 2011 8:23a Patrick Kwinten Yesterday I registered a new project on OpenNTF, called CardScanR.
Since this project mainly re-uses code from an old article here on this blog the work progresses pretty well.
Here is what I have come up with so far.
Administration panel:
Adding a new event:
And the scan form:
When pressing the ‘Scan’ button the card scanner will be activated and the values read from a business card are sent to the screen.
All very nice! Especially XPages makes the development now much more a pie [read] Keywords: administration
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Section type in XPages
Tue, Aug 16th 2011 4:02a Patrick Kwinten I noticed for a section you can specify the type. However when I select the different options in the browser I do not notice so many differences except some padding/margin differences.
However in Designer I notice that the section tries to take form the section types known in traditional Notes.
Is this a XPages in Notec Client only thing or is it just not supported in the web?
Section type = tab looks similar to a tabbed panel to me: [read] Keywords: notes
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Thoughts after a long summer vacation
Mon, Aug 8th 2011 8:42a Patrick Kwinten Although it is still summer, vacation is over (except a quick visit to the Netherlands later this month).
Besides camping, MTB-ing, swimming, reading, laughing, enjoying and other sorts of fun activities I have also been thinking about what to do when getting back in the office. Having work-mail on my mobile also got me working a little while relaxing (thanks Traveler).
I fear my time is again limited. I noticed that I have not been contributing much on this site. I started using Google+ as [read] Keywords: traveler
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New project on OpenNTF – Viewr
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 8:26a Patrick Kwinten I have created a new project on OpenNTF named ‘Viewr’. The application allows to distribute movies across your network using JWPLayer.
Some part of the code has already been submitted to OpenNTF via a custom control. But now you have it in a working application!
Please be aware of the license model for JWPLayer and that there are commercial licenses for the LongTail Video products. Luckily the prices are not that harsh.
The application has never been in real use in my organization a [read] Keywords: application
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New control submitted for the XPages development contest
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 4:06a Patrick Kwinten I have submitted a new control to OpenNTF for the XPages development contest. The control is an abstract of the implementation of Galleria in the Bildr project.
In short words: the control enables to publish an image slider on your Xpage. A sample is demonstrated in the following image:
You can download the control here. Have fun! [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Bildr – Next release features (2)
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 2:26p Patrick Kwinten I have uploaded a new release of Bildr on OpenNTF. This release does not have so many new features, mainly I added a rating function for pictures.
I guess it is (almost) time now to enjoy summer holidays and maybe take a few pictures myself =) [read] Keywords: facebook
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Application connections
Tue, Jun 21st 2011 4:06a Patrick Kwinten Yesterday I broadcasted a presentation I wrote that describe all the Notes applications we have that guide developers in their development projects. Think about applications in the following categories:
Standards / Guidelines
Templates
Components
Resources
Tools
Knowledge
IBM resources
Project
Registries
I was pointed by a colleague of the existence of an application that was not listed.
The database contain documents that describe the relationship from 1 design element in an application wi [read] Keywords: connections
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Bildr – Next release features (1)
Mon, Jun 20th 2011 8:26a Patrick Kwinten I have picked up some new development on Bildr. Not sure if this is wise since Swedish holidays are about the kick-in and Midsommar-celebrations are no good for the brains.
In the next release there will be a rating feature, for which I got help from Frank van der Linden. [read] Keywords: development
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Bildr in Gurus of XPages webcast
Mon, Jun 20th 2011 6:45a Patrick Kwinten While working on the next version of Bildr I was listening to the Gurus of XPages webinar (I am not sure where you can get a download of the webinar but it’s out there).
I was happy surprised when I heard at about 21:40 Bildr mentioned as a great XPages app!
Thanks for the nice words! We’ll make sure that Bildr:
remains free
gets stuffed with more XPages goodies in the future =)
Also thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project. Please update your ideas / feature request [read] Keywords: xpages facebook
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Busy on OpenNTF
Thu, May 26th 2011 12:42a Patrick Kwinten I have submitted 2 contributions to OpenNTF this morning:
An new release for Bildr
An XPages JWPlayer control , my contribution to the XPages Development Contest.
The control allows easy displaying a movie via Longtail Video’s Flash player. A wizard demonstrates which properties you can set.
I hope you like them and happy development! =) [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Domino Blog – More RSS options
Tue, May 17th 2011 4:02a Patrick Kwinten I have posted a request and a discussion on OpenNTF for the Domino Blog template.
I would like to see the number of optional RSS feeds extended. It would be nice to have feeds for each tag, category or author.
In case there is someone who has modified the template with this capability I would be happy to look at the code =) [read] Keywords: domino
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Bildr – Work in progress
Fri, May 13th 2011 7:02a Patrick Kwinten It’s been a hard day’s night… there is some work in progress for Bildr on OpenNTF.
I have added a bookmark functionality and separate page to read comments.
Figure: Button to create a bookmark for a picture document.
Figure: Bookmark overview on profile page.
Figure: Comments overview page.
I have not submitted the code yet, will do that later this day/weekend. Anyway, if you have some feature request, please let me know. Enjoy your weekend! [read] Keywords: facebook
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wireless router – any recommendation?
Thu, May 5th 2011 5:25a Patrick Kwinten Summer season is getting close and I would like to sit (and work) in the garden sometimes. Therefor I guess it would be a good idea to upgrade my wireless router sometime.
At the moment I have a Netgear WGR614GR Wireless Kabel/DSL Router, 54 Mbit/s but it’s range may be wider to my opinion.
From most sites it is hard to compare routers on their range so if you have a recommendation please drop it here. [read] Keywords: facebook
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Collegue wanted: Systems Developer (Notes Domino)
Sat, Apr 30th 2011 12:05p Patrick Kwinten I do not know about the existens of the SwedishJob.com site but here you can find the advertisement for a System Developer in Lotus Notes and Domino.
You have a degree level education in computer science or equivalent experience and have several years of experience with Lotus Notes Domino, LotusScript, @ Formula, Java and JavaScript. In addition, experience in Web 2.0 techniques (Ajax, XML, and JSON) and, especially, the Dojo toolkit is advantageous. You are fluent in both written and verbal Eng [read] Keywords: domino
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Spring Bildr
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 7:23a Patrick Kwinten I did a little bit of coding this weekend and the results you can find in the new release of Bildr which you can find here: link. Screenshots you can find here: link.
So what is new for this release? Not so much except that I have tied the different items in the app a bit more together. [read] Keywords: facebook
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Using Teamroom 8.5.2 – recommended documentation?
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 4:03a Patrick Kwinten I am currently looking at the 8.5.2 Teamroom template and if it will fit well in our application portfolio. Getting the application up and running is not a problem. Allthough I have noticed some technical problem areas the information I am more interested in is about:
The purpose of the application. What is it’s objective and how we should position the application in our portfolio.
How should the application be setup and what are the options?
How can daily users use the application, what [read] Keywords: ibm
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Spotlight function – Binding a panel to a datasource
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 4:03a Patrick Kwinten This post is related to a question I posted on the XPages forum.
For my Bildr app I wanted to create a ‘spotlight area’ on the homepage where an individual image would get highlighted. The image would be randomly selected. I experienced some problems with the view control and repeat control. The question I received from Mark Leusing does exactly what I wanted the function to behave.
Since the solution is so simple I though re-sharing it with some more explanation would be benefitial [read] Keywords: ldd
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Bildr – Homepage improvements
Wed, Mar 16th 2011 8:25a Patrick Kwinten I am currently implementing some ideas to improve the homepage for Bildr. Please let me know what you think of the proposal and if you have suggestions for improvements.
The spotlight is a new function than randomly displays one of the pictures in the database with some detail information. [read] Keywords: database
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Goldmember on IdeaJam
Sat, Mar 12th 2011 3:05a Patrick Kwinten Allthough I haven’t contributed many ideas to IdeaJam lately (Notes is perfect? / Other priorities) I have become a goldmember on IdeaJam.
That’s great!, since Dutch love gold, ain’t that weird? [read] Keywords: lotus
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Bildr release: create albums
Tue, Mar 8th 2011 3:06a Patrick Kwinten FYI:
Today a new release of Bildr has been made available on OpenNTF. The release has the non-exciting name 3.02 but the application has as nice new feature: the ability to create albums.
The layout of several pages has improved. For example, there is now a separate page to start finding content via tags and more important the category menu and tagcloud have moved from the non-start pages.
You have to start using the extension library if you want like to use Bildr, since the tagcloud is based up [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Help wanted – Bildr
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 9:02a Patrick Kwinten We are currently working on a new release of Bildr. Nevertheless I have posted some ‘Help wanted’ posts on OpenNTF in case you want to contribute to the project.
Much appreciated! [read] Keywords: facebook
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Dojo Cheat Sheet
Sun, Feb 20th 2011 3:02a Patrick Kwinten I guess everyone likes to cheat once in a while.
The XPages Cheat Sheet contains a lot of references to Dojo but as expected it is more focused on XPages than on Dojo. There is however a good overview of the Dojo API, which can be considered as a sort of cheat sheet:
Dojo API Cheatsheet [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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Link: Securing Your Notes Application
Tue, Feb 15th 2011 5:02a Patrick Kwinten Today we discussed to provide a checklist for developers that can help them with auditing the security of their applications.
In the Notes/Domino Best Practices: Security checklist there is a reference to:
Lotus Education On Demand: Securing Your Notes Application
Overview Introduction Controlling Access to Notes/Domino Data Tools The Access Control List Setting Up and Refining the ACL Access to Database Elements Participants Partners in Securing an Application Web Users Anonymous Users Case Stu [read] Keywords: access control list
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Printer-friendly CSS for OneUI?
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 7:42a Patrick Kwinten I have an application which is based heavy on the XPages Framework available on OpenNTF. When printing a document most of the images used for styling disappear. However I would like to provide an even more printer-friendly style-sheet. For example the left navigation, footer etcetera I do not found so very interesting to print.
But before I set up a custom CSS, has anyone done this before and is willing to share it? [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Mastering… XPatience
Mon, Feb 7th 2011 12:42p Patrick Kwinten On 29 January I received a confirmation that my Amazon order for Mastering XPages was shipped. What shipped means here I have no idea but from a customer perspective I would expect: “expected to be dropped in your postbox any time now” but this seems not to be true:
Order Placed:
October 6, 2010
Shipment 1 of 1
Shipped
Delivery Estimate: March 7, 2011
Thanks, but no thanks… I can still see that pile of books in the bookstore at LS2011 in front of my eyes… [read] Keywords: xpages facebook
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