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Xpages: Validating Email  
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 3:10p Ross S Swick
I've read on the web that you should never use a "Confirm Email" text box on any form you create, ever. It just annoys your users, most of which have auto-complete for their email anyway so It won't ever be wrong. And you should especially never required it on a mobile form, where the lack of a full size keyboard makes the required double entry even more annoying.
Unfortunately my customers haven't read the same articles I have, and for some reason they seem to think form desig [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
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XPages: Validating Read-only Fields
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 11:54a Ross S Swick
By default XPages will not allow you to validate a read-only field. This totally makes sense. If the user cannot enter a value into the field you can't hold him responsible for entering the wrong value, or no value. But editing a field is not the only way to get values in there.
For example: I have a form that is used to assign tasks to people. Every person has a department, division, phone number, and email. All that goes on the form. Users do not want to type all that information, [read] Keywords: ldd
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XPages Extension Library: Using Dialogs
Fri, Oct 14th 2011 3:29p Ross S Swick
I'm working on web enabling a legacy Lotus Notes apps by creating an XPages front end. The Notes application features a lot of popup windows for both help text and user selection of information. For the former I considered just making a clickable link to another page, but that's fairly clunky and old school. Sections could also work but controlling the size and behavior is a bit tricky. So I tabled that issue while I worked on the selection popups.
The obvious choice for a popup t [read] Keywords: ibm
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