The CKEditor is very handy in XPages since it saves the content as MIME which can be processed as such in other places in your application. However you should be aware of how it operates so you can code around its behavior.
In 8.5.3 the CKEditor for rich text controls has been updated.
1. If you never enter any information into the field, then the field is a text field even if the document has been saved.
2. If you enter a single space and save the document, then the field is a MIME object and remains so even if you remove the content and re-save the document.
SOLUTION:
Use something similar to the code below to discover if the field is actually MIME or just plain empty text:
NOTE: I have already upgraded everything to 8.5.3 so I cannot accurately verify but I believe this was not the case in 8.5.2 because after upgrading some existing/working suddenly stopped working and this was the cause.
If anyone knows differently about 8.5.2, please let me know.
Requiring SSL for SSO? Flick the switch!
Wed, Jun 19th 2013 6:19a Russell Maher Recently we switched our servers to use SSO and life was good. Until someone tried to login to their mail. (Why anyone would want to use the browser to access their mail when they have a perfectly good Notes client and Traveler at their disposal is beyond me...but, alas...) Where was I?, Oh yes, SSO. Well being the security conscious kind of guy that I am I configured SSO to require SSL. What that means in English is that in order to access your databases you must use SSL. Oh sure, you can [read] Keywords: notes
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OWASP - The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 9:17a Russell Maher OWASP , The Open Web Application Security Project, just officially released "OWASP Top Ten - 2013, The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks." All XPagers and Domino-folk should give this a read. My sense is that Domino holds up very well out of the box against this list of vulnerabilities which is a good thing but there are clearly some areas of possible concern given your exact situation and your specific applications. We run a publicly hosted XPages application so, of course, [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM buys SoftLayer. Yeah, that's a concern for us.
Tue, Jun 4th 2013 11:22a Russell Maher IBM to Acquire SoftLayer to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise Never really cared much for the business side of software licensing and infrastructure when I was doing straight corporate development and administration. Once I started hosting applications that all changed. Why? Because I became a paying customer. I expect things and my vendors' decisions impact my business. We've been using SoftLayer since 2007. We chose them after a careful analysis of the other ven [read] Keywords: administration
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Setting Up TLS (SSL) for IBM HTTP Server with Domino 9 - Part 2
Thu, May 30th 2013 10:18p Russell Maher In Part 1 I showed you how to use IKeyMan to set up your SSL keys database. Now in Part 2 we will configure IHS to actually use your keys and to use TLS (SSL). Since you've already set up IBM HTTP Server on your Domino 9 server, all you need to do now is edit the domino.conf file and tell IHS to start using SSL. The Domino documentation is perfect here, too. I followed their steps to the letter and it worked. When I deviated, it didn't work so save your deviation and creativity until you [read] Keywords: domino
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Setting Up TLS (SSL) for IBM HTTP Server with Domino 9 - Part 1
Thu, May 30th 2013 10:18p Russell Maher In the last post I went through the steps to install and set up the IBM HTTP Server with Domino 9. In this and the following post we'll go through the steps to enable TLS (SSL) which really is the reason to use the IBM HTTP Server with Domino in the first place. There are really only two steps to this: Step 1 - Get your SSL keys Step 2 - Configure IHS to use your keys But first...About SSL If you've not gone through this process before, let me lay it out for you. SSL keys are a form of [read] Keywords: domino
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Setting Up The IBM HTTP Server with Domino 9
Wed, May 29th 2013 11:18p Russell Maher The IBM HTTP Server 8.5 is included with Domino 9 and you can use it as your HTTP server instead of the Domino HTTP server if you wish. This post describes the steps required to get it running. There are two questions to ask. 1. Why would you want to use it? Why? TLS. What's TLS you say? It is the new and improved SSL. Domino does not support TLS but the IBM HTTP Server (which is based on Apache) does. So if you want to get an A on your SSL Test Here, you gotta' step up to TLS and that [read] Keywords: domino
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What browser ARE they using?
Thu, May 23rd 2013 1:17p Russell Maher We support the public and, let me tell you, that can be challenging when providing a complex application where everything the user sees has to be "just so." If a customer has a user who says the application is "not working," the first thing we check is what browser they are using. It is pretty easy to locate the user agent string in the logs and through our own application logging but knowing the full details is very helpful for us to quickly determine what the issue may be so I use: http [read] Keywords: agent
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I won a cool GoPro Hero3! Thanks IAmLug Sponsors!
Mon, May 20th 2013 2:15p Russell Maher How awesome is this? I go to IAmLUG in St. Louis and win this awesome GoPro Hero3 Silver camera! Bah ha ha ha ha. (I am just thrilled with it. Can you tell?) What an awesome piece of technology! Now I am not going to be any aerial vids (yet) like Carl Tyler but I am planning on using it initially as a DashCam to record and comment on the oft-frustrating driving that is Chicago driving. THANK YOU to all of the IAmLug sponsors who made this awesome prize possible: NotesCodewww.notescode.com [read] Keywords: connections
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Finding Your Own Presenting Voice + Let Me Know If You Would Like Feedback
Mon, May 20th 2013 8:20a Russell Maher Find Your Voice You have to decide or learn what your voice is when presenting. We have a lot of excellent speakers in our orbit that have very effective yet different speaking styles and you can learn something from all of them. Wes Morgan gives a great presentation and his style is definitely professional grade. I dig it. Chris Miller has an almost Robin Williams-esque presentation style backed by a CRAZY level of technical knowledge that is extremely effective. Kathy Brown, the loud laug [read] Keywords: skype
