When it comes to validation, the only secure way is server side validation (Client side validation is more: "nice suggestions for users"). One little grievance developers have - and try to fix with elaborate measures - is the requirement to set the focus on the first failed field. XPages makes this quite simple. As Tommy pointed out fields that are invalidated server side get the attribute aria-invalid="true".
Besides, as Tommy suggested, using it to style the input (check his comment - cool idea), you can use it to set the focus on the first invalid field. The key component is the dojo.query function. It allows all sorts of interesting queries, including for attributes. So add a simple Script block with this static value to your page:
XSP.addOnLoad(function(){ var invalid = dojo.query("[aria-invalid=true]"); if(invalid.length>0){
invalid[0].focus(); }; });
ShadowIT
Thu, May 30th 2013 1:17p Stephan H Wissel In an ideal world a corporate IT department would run a standardized, secure environment that fulfills all user requirement. The members of the CIO office are well respected and often invited, since when they turn up, things start moving. Also everybody loves the flying cars they use for transport.
In reality most IT departments are caught between a rock and a hard place. Under the (justified or not) pretext of standardization (read: saving cost for the IT department) and security IT department [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't try this at home!
Tue, May 21st 2013 1:14p Stephan H Wissel Domino has a refined security system, so the java.policy file can be a real PITA. So you would be tempted to write a few lines of LotusScript and run it on a scheduled agent, so on the next server restart that pain goes away. Of course you wouldn't write code like below which lacks any error handling.You also would not hide this code from your admin people who would want an impact study and your firstborn for any change they make. So instead of doing all this you wait until there is a proper co [read] Keywords: admin
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Enterprise 2.0 and weight loss - siblings separated at birth?
Tue, May 14th 2013 12:18p Stephan H Wissel This blog entry is inspired and largely translated from this German article authored by enterprise consultant Andreas Schulze-Kopp. Having gone through some personal transformation (final results in November) myself I found Andreas' comparison of Enterprise 2.0 initiatives and weight loss programs intriguing.
The tasks are comparable: alter habits, break through the mould of old behavioural pattern (a.k.a processes in business lingo) show enough determination and will power to see it through. [read] Keywords: connections
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CRM > Sales Tracking
Sun, May 5th 2013 9:20a Stephan H Wissel IBM is ditching Siebel CRM in favour of SugarCRM. Cloud based CRM was made popular by SalesForce while Zoho wants a share of the pie too.
All to often CRM offers or is used as sales force automation tool, which it is not (only). But what makes a good CRM? It needs to provide access to anything that relates to a customer. Doh - that's what the name claims.
In larger organisations CRM typically is understood very narrowly as sales tracking tool, the broader definition as outlined above gets c [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dear SingTel, please fix your routing performance!
Wed, Apr 24th 2013 9:18p Stephan H Wissel Slashdot asked for the latency to their site, so I ran a few tests with pretty consistent results in the 250ms range. Slashdot labels that as "still stuck on dialup or in space". Their expectations for overseas users was 80 to 150ms. Puzzled by the result (local websites typically respond in the sub 2ms range), I used traceroute to get to the bottom of this. Here are the results:
td.Default {border-right : 1px dotted #CCCCCC; border-bottom : 1px dotted #EEEEEE; padding : 1px}
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MAMIL*
Sun, Apr 21st 2013 6:17a Stephan H Wissel Cycling in Singapore can be fun once you:
Find the right group
Do it at night
Are not afraid to cycle along an unlit Cemetery or ghosts
* Middle Aged Man In Lycra [read] Keywords: wiki
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A more actionable Connections UI
Fri, Apr 19th 2013 6:18a Stephan H Wissel IBM Connections is a two headed beast: on one hand it is a set of rich APIs offering different services (Status, Blogs, Wiki, Text, Activities etc) on the other it provides a set of UIs on top of this APIs. Yes, not one, but a set: Browser, Android, iShiny™ and IBM Notes. I'm a big fan of the APIs. After all they stand for IBM's commitment to open standards and are build with XML, REST, ATOM and ActivityStreams compliant to the OpenSocial specifications.
I'm not so sure about the UIs, [read] Keywords: connections
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Planning applications (XPages MindMap)
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 8:18a Stephan H Wissel In a recent XPages workshop in Kuala Lumpur, the class brainstormed on the planning process for an XPages application. This is what we came up with. For every item on the list one could elaborate quite a bit, but putting that on the map would make it rather messy.
Enjoy [read] Keywords: xpages application
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