XPage Control: Multi Select Dialog Picker
Tue, Mar 16th 2010 4:18a Steve Castledine I have just released an XPages Multi Select Dialog Picker control on OpenNTF. The multi-select dialog picker allows you to specify a Lotus Notes View/column based data source, or via an api any list you may choose and return a list of selected values. There is full documentation here. You can also bind to any field for automatic selection and updating of values. I will write a follow up article on some of the client side coding techniques. Further features: 1) The picker can easi [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dominoblog: Templates
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 4:39a Steve Castledine Denny had a question: I want to have a 'Home' page that starts when the blog is opened, then I want to have a link that will take me to the Blog and I want to do all this with the .nsf file. So I took and made a copy of the 'Home Page' found within the 'Page Templates'. I then renamed the copy to "Blog" and saved it. Next I changed the 'Home Page to look like what I wanted. Now my question is this, How do I Call the new page I made from my top menu or is this not possible [read] Keywords: domino
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Spotted on Google Street View
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 3:36a Steve Castledine Leicester finally has Google Street View from today (must be nearly 2 years since they took the images). I remember the Google car passing me whilst out with Millie, who must have been 3 months old at the time and sure enough: [read] Keywords: google
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Dominoblog - give me the dirt
Fri, Feb 26th 2010 2:04a Steve Castledine The subject is slightly tongue in cheek, but the question is a serious one. I've read on more than one occasion this week the line "difficult to use" for DominoBlog. So I need to find out what is the part that is difficult to use. From a user standpoint creating a blog entry should be no more difficult than creating a new email. Creating a new blog is no more difficult than "File > Application > New" (not that I like that, but its the same for all Domino applications). So I ca [read] Keywords: admin
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XPages: Validating Radio Groups Client Side
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 1:45a Steve Castledine This has come up twice recently so thought I would share a few tips. Server side validation of radio groups and also check box groups on a basic level is very simple. You navigate to the component properties and add a "required" (xp:validateRequired) validation rule via data > validators. I say simple however other components do have this available on a specific validation tab whereas these you have to drill down to the properties: If you want to do more advanced validation then [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages: Hide Detail Rows
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 6:41a Steve Castledine Very quiet around here as very busy (some very cool stuff) and still catching up on "I will document that for you" from Lotusphere. So here's one off that list "Hide Detail Rows". So in Notes development we have the ability to add numeric values to columns and add totals. Often we are not interested in the number per row but just the totals, maybe by category: So we set the view column property "Hide Detail Rows" to achieve this: When we want to do the same for XPages, this p [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Millies first snowman
Wed, Jan 6th 2010 5:34a Steve Castledine We finally have a winter this year. The rest of the country has had a fair bit of snow, but we have had about 2cm max. But we still have a snowman: [read] Keywords:
OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday
Mon, Jan 4th 2010 6:25a Steve Castledine Just a quick reminder that the OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday, see here. A reminder also that there are entries where the submitter has been asked to add a licence file etc and so far have not. These queries by the IP manager will need resolving to qualify for entry. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Simple XPages Theme Tip
Fri, Dec 18th 2009 3:56a Steve Castledine There was a question "how do I allocate a particular theme to a particular XPage?", this is because in general the theme set is for the entire nsf and changing it for one XPage means changing it for all (via the application properties). However if you think about this differently, and almost as an extension to the XPage itself when it builds its header information, you will see that one theme does not mean fixed settings for all as the power of the theme is about computation via the rendere [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Don’t forget the Open Source Lotus Awards
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 3:43a Steve Castledine For Lotusphere in January 2010 there will be two new Open Source Lotus Awards: 1. Best Open Source Contribution by an Individual(s) (up to 2) 2. Best Open Source Contribution by a Business Partner Nominations are coming in, however we would like many more (and the deadline is January 6th). Read this blog entry for more detail. Last minute entries increase the chance of not being accepted due to any resolvable legal issues. So its imperative to get your entries in as soon as possible. [read] Keywords: lotus
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XPages - common "upgrade my existing application" questions
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 2:45a Steve Castledine A bit of a call for help, but at the same time an offer of help. One of my Lotusphere sessions, with Stephan Wissel, will be about upgrading "existing" applications to using XPages, and also showing how some out of the box stuff can get you quick wins for doing this. A question I have is what common patterns, use cases or general questions do "you" have for this scenario. What do you need to know the equivalent of doing from standard Domino to XPages, what questions do you currently ha [read] Keywords: domino
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Millie’s Band
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 2:37a Steve Castledine Millie really did think this was "her" band. Shame I didn't take this with a real camera, or got any when she was facing frontwards and dancing. [read] Keywords:
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Did you complain about the OpenNTF forums?
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 3:08a Steve Castledine That's not meant to be a rude blog title, but merely to get your attention if you were originally displeased with the discussion template used on OpenNTF. I know there were many frustrations, including my own, with the original template and we have patched it a couple of times to try and improve things. However we have now done some work to fix some of the underlying issues and so the best way to avoid future frustrations, is to help us to work out whether the changes go some way towards fix [read] Keywords: openntf
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