XPages API Inspector V3
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 2:21p Tommy Valand Changes:br /precodeFrom feature requests (thanks, Mark Leusink):br / * Classes that doesn't have a constructor can now be inspected (e.g. lotus.domino.local.Item)br / * The API Inspector now has partial refresh. No more full reload of pagebr /br /My own tweaks:br / * Removed the clear-buttonbr / * If you select something other than custom, the input field/inspect button is hidden. br / To reset, select custombr / * The expression field is now an auto-growing text-area. br / This allows you to te [read] Keywords: domino
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XPiNC: Prevent tabs being closed on ESC
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 3:13a Tommy Valand A reader of my blog asked me how to prevent tabs being closed when pressing escape in XPages running in the Notes Client.br /br /This strongclient side/strong code seems to work in Notes 8.5.2 at least:precodedojo.addOnLoad( function(){ br / dojo.connect( document, 'keydown', function(e){ br / // 27 - Key code for ESC - stop eventbr / if(e.keyCode === 27){ dojo.stopEvent(e); } br / });br /});/code/prediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.c [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages: Simple function to clear scoped variables
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 3:17a Tommy Valand All scope objects (applicationScope, sessionScope, etc.) are maps, so it's quite easy to clear them. This might come in handy during development, if you want to clear the applicationScope. br /br /I've tested it on both applicationScope and sessionScope, and it doesn't seem to do any harm. After the maps are cleared, the server automatically loads the "internal" values used by the system.br /br /precodefunction clearMap( map:Map ){br / // Get iterator for the keysbr / var iterator = map.keySet() [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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XPages: Adding default value for empty view columns
Tue, Jun 22nd 2010 5:47a Tommy Valand Go to source mode, and find the column you want to add the default text. Add a computed field that's rendered when:br /strong!( this.getParent().getValue() )/strongbr /br /E.g.br /precodelt;xp:viewColumn columnName="notes" id="colNotes"gt;br / lt;xp:viewColumnHeader value="Notes"gt;lt;/xp:viewColumnHeadergt;br / lt;xp:text value="No notes"br / rendered="#{javascript:return !( this.getParent().getValue() );}" /gt;br /lt;/xp:viewColumngt;/code/prebr /br /this.getParent() returns the cell. If the c [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages: Code snippet for Multi Value Custom Converter
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 3:47a Tommy Valand I got a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3745504982837212509postID=3596771585756735811#c1781090065923016497"a question/a regarding how to work around the buggy multi-value implementation in XPages. I use a custom converter for my multi value fields.br /br /precodevar Converters = { br / multivalue: {br / // separator: String or RegExpbr / getAsObject: function( valuesString, separator ){br / try {br / separator = separator || ',';br / var values = valuesString.split( separator );br [read] Keywords: script library
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XPages: Bug? View XPage Source code in the browser
Wed, Jun 16th 2010 11:47a Tommy Valand I just read a href="http://ozinisle.blogspot.com/2010/06/view-xpage-source-code-on-browser.html"this/a in my daily RSS roundup.br /br /Add a + after .xsp in the address field of your browser results in the source code being printed to the browser (click above link for screenshot or try for yourself). It's not sure how I feel about this. In most cases it won't be a security issue, but still..div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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XPages: Avoid saving duplicate documents on browser refresh
Wed, Jun 2nd 2010 1:45p Tommy Valand A reader wanted to know if there was some way to avoid duplicate documents when a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3745504982837212509postID=2330334796839812543#c918521366858114665"saving a document, refreshing the browser, and pressing ok on the resulting dialog/a.br /br /In JSF lingo, this is known as the a href="http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/03/post-redirect-get-pattern.html"POST-Redirect-GET pattern/a. This is quite easy to accomplish in XPages.br /br /On the save button, put [read] Keywords: script library
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DateConverter tip - get weeknumber in one line
Tue, May 18th 2010 7:17a Tommy Valand If you want to get the week number from a date:br /precodeDateConverter.dateToString( date, 'w' )/code/prea href="http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2010/04/xpages-code-snippet-for-datestring.html"The DateConverter script/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3745504982837212509-8452864577085827548?l=dontpanic82.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"
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XPages: Severe bug in the partial event hijacker
Fri, May 7th 2010 5:01a Tommy Valand For the life of me, I couldn't understand why the a href="http://www.timtripcony.com/blog.nsf/d6plinks/TTRY-84B6VP"onStart/onError/onComplete/a events didn't fire for partial events. Today it suddenly dawned on me. It was because of my partial event hijacker.br /br /The previous version overwrote the onStart/onError/onComplete events. Below is the fixed code. Sorry if you've used the hijacker and suffered the same fate as me.br / br /precodefunction hijackAndPublishPartialRefresh(){br / // Hijac [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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XPages: Simple string encrypter/decrypter
Thu, May 6th 2010 2:14p Tommy Valand I needed a simple encryption routine today. I found a href="http://www.devx.com/Java/10MinuteSolution/21385/0/page/1"this article/a with accompanying code.br /br /Here's the routine ported to Server Side JavaScript:br /precodefunction StringEncrypter( encryptionScheme:String, encryptionKey:String ){br / try{br / encryptionScheme = encryptionScheme || this.DESEDE_ENCRYPTION_SCHEME;br / encryptionKey = encryptionKey || this.DEFAULT_ENCRYPTION_KEY;br / if( encryptionKey.length 24 ){ br / throw new [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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Using the Rhino JavaScript engine in XPages
Mon, May 3rd 2010 3:56p Tommy Valand Not sure how useful this is yet, but if you want to use the Rhino engine with XPages, here's how:precodevar rhinoEngine = new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName(br / "JavaScript");br /// to eval JavaScript string: rhinoEngine.eval( jsString );/code/prebr /a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/programmer_guide/index.html"Oracle Tutorial/abr /br /a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/script/ScriptEngine.html"General API for javax.script. [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages: Dynamically binding and unbinding server side events
Sat, May 1st 2010 3:14p Tommy Valand Back in my early XPages career, I asked the readers if it was possible to a href="http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2009/09/dynamically-binding-server-side-events.html"Dynamically bind server side events/a.br /br /The only answer I got was this:br /strongThe short answer: NO.br /The long: it is somewhere on the list./strongbr /br /I don't like those kinds of answers.br /br /After todays experiment, I can firmly say: strongYes, it's possible!/strongbr /This is what you'll be able to do with the sim [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages: Code snippet for number/string conversion
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 5:44a Tommy Valand The a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html"DecimalFormat/a object is cached in the application scope due to performance/memory concerns.br /
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The default locale for the conversion seems to be the locale of the OS on the server, so if you want to support multiple locales, you'd have to extend the functionality.br /
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Example usage (bNorwegian/b locale):br /
bString to number/bbr /
NumberConverter.stringToNumber( '15,55', '0.00' ) -gt; java.lang.Doubleb [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages: Server Side Event Delegation - In view edit
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 5:11p Tommy Valand This is a continuation of the a href="http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2010/04/server-side-event-delegation.html"previous investigation/a into the possibilities of Server Side Event Delegation (SSED).br /
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As I mentioned at the end of the previous blogpost, the demoapp didn't take advantage of a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/23/javascript-event-delegation-is-easier-than-you-think/"Client Side Event Delegation/a (CSED). This resulted in having to create the same amount of client [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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XPages: Server Side Event Delegation
Thu, Apr 22nd 2010 5:01p Tommy Valand While working on a view with bin view edit/b functionality today, I was appalled over how much client side code was generated.br /
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I guess my subconsciousness was working on the problem, as I came up with a hack that lets you delegate events, while eating dinner (almost forgot the comma). It's somewhat similar to the a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/23/javascript-event-delegation-is-easier-than-you-think/"event delegation/a that you would do in a browser. The current implement [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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XPages: Code snippet for date/string conversion
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 9:14a Tommy Valand The SimpleDateFormat object is cached in the application scope due to performance/memory concerns (I have data tables generated from JSON with up to several thousand conversions).br /
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Example usage:br /
bString to date/bbr /
DateConverter.stringToDate( '12.12.2001', 'dd.MM.yyyy' ) -gt; java.util.Datebr /
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bDate to string/b br /
DateConverter.dateToString( @Now(), 'dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm' ) -gt; 08.04.2010 12:01br /
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precodevar DateConverter = {
dateToString: function( date:java.util.Date [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages: Adding controls to view/data table pagers
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 12:48p Tommy Valand I haven't read anyone else writing about this, so I thought I should share this technique with you.br /
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While working on a custom search data table, I wanted to show the number of entries in the result. I wanted the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination_(web)"pagination/a links to be on the left of the pager bar, and the number of entries on the right side.br /
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At first I started mucking about with CSS, but that ended up being a maintenance nightmare as the search control I w [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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Renaming fields with formula agents
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 11:48a Tommy Valand Put the code below in a formula agent. Set the old field names in the _fieldNamesFrom-list, and the new field names in the _fieldNamesTo-list. Not sure if it works correctly for NotesRichTextItems, but it should work on the other field types.br /
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If there isn't a field with the old fieldname, a new one isn't created (in case you need to run the agent multiple times - doesn't blank the new fields).br /
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precode_fieldNamesFrom := "silly_fieldname" : "tpyo_fieldname";
_fieldNamesTo := "cra [read] Keywords: agent
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I've added a comments feed
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 5:21p Tommy Valand Just wanted to let you know that I've added an RSS feed for comments.br /
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a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DontPanic82Comments"The feed/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3745504982837212509-5076161827691174056?l=dontpanic82.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"
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XPages: Computing the category label in categorized columns
Fri, Mar 26th 2010 4:10p Tommy Valand I stumbled on this one while helping a colleague.br /br /He had a categorized totals view that was categorized on id's referencing documents in another database. He wanted the category label to show the a value from the document the id came from. That's easy I told him (I hadn't worked with categorized views in XPages), just use @DbLookup..br /br /Turns out it's not that straightforward. If you edit the value in the Data panel under properties, the column loses it's "connection" (the strongcolum [read] Keywords: dblookup
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Do you want -real- Server Side JavaScript? Vote!
Fri, Mar 26th 2010 9:14a Tommy Valand The current implementation isn't according to spec (as I've ranted about a couple of times). If you want to change that, it's time to go to the voting booth.br /br /a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/D4C6E356ECABDCD7862576F20026FFDE?OpenDocument"Make Server Side JS standards compliant/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3745504982837212509-5335670950118874557?l=dontpanic82.blogspot.com' alt='' //divimg src="http:/ [read] Keywords: blogger
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