Settings bean - parameterized method call from EL
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 2:19p Thimo Jansen With Xpages it's convenient to keep your settings in a properties file. They're easy to create, maintain and access from EL (Expression Language), SSJS (Server Side JavaScript) and Java. And they're fast too! But what if your settings are somewhere else, like in a central database? What can you do to create something that works from all three languages (EL, SSJS and Java) and have it fast too? Beans are great for solving these kind of problems. But there's one issue: it's not possible to u [read] Keywords: xpages blogger
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Easy to print Lotusphere 2012 Pocket Agenda
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 2:28a Thimo Jansen IBM provides a PDF with an overview of everything Lotusphere: the Lotusphere Pocket Agenda (for a download link, see Lotusphere 2012 sessions page). It's a really nice reference, but the PDF is a bit of a challenge to print on A4 or Paper. Last night I had some fun with combining and rotating the pages to get an easily printable PDF and here I share them with you (hoping IBM doesn't mind). There are two versions: Printed onto A4, with 4 pages combined per page. These require eagle eyes or re [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to set the correct DOCTYPE
Fri, Dec 16th 2011 3:33a Thimo Jansen By default Domino prints out the following, half decent DOCTYPE, leaving out the link to the DTD: This causes browsers to render the page in quirks mode and not care very much about standards. This makes it harder to get pages to render the same in the different browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome). If you care about a correct layout of the page you would want something like: Or if you're lazy, like I am, and maybe want to pretend to do HTML 5, use: For Xpages it's simply a se [read] Keywords: agent
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Wish list for Xpages development
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 3:25a Thimo Jansen Just in time for the holiday season, here's my Santa Claus wish list for enhancements in Domino Designer to aid Xpages development. Building websites, or should I say web applications, in Designer has become an absolute joy with the introduction of Xpages. With each new release the IDE becomes more advanced and the capabilities of the platform are unheard of. Thank you Santa! But there are things left to be wished for. Here's my short list. And allow me to leave out the obvious things like a [read] Keywords: domino
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Fix IE9 submit events
Sun, Jun 19th 2011 2:14p Thimo Jansen In my previous blog on how to fix the default type for buttons in IE I ended with a remark that although the method described fixes the button type, in Internet Explorer 9 the save action still does not work. This seems to be IE9 specific, as IE8 works as expected. After a bit of reverse engineering I found the cause of the problem and came up with a solution. Looking at the submitted data there is a difference between Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. In IE9 the field $$xspsubmitid is empty, i [read] Keywords: ibm
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Fix default type for submit buttons in IE
Sun, Jun 19th 2011 9:13a Thimo Jansen For submit buttons - you know, the new Click me type - to work properly in Internet Explorer you have to explicitly add the type of the button. So the above example becomes Click me. With Themes in Xpages it's very easy to fix this on an application wide level. Open your favorite themeAdd the following tags: Button.Submit type submit Now all the buttons in your application with an Xpages button of "Button type" "submit" will have the t [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Xpages - Java Bean lessons of the day
Wed, May 25th 2011 9:10a Thimo Jansen This Xpages stuff is still fairly new to me and there are lots of little things I struggle with. Today was spend trying to figure out how to build some of the log-in/log-out logic. For a couple of problems I could not find a direct answer on the internet, so I thought I'd share what I came up with. Remove a bean from the session In the application I'm building there's this "User" bean that holds all kinds of user data and provides some application logic. When the user clicks the log out b [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Bulk cleanup old Working Set databases, part 2
Sun, May 15th 2011 1:12p Thimo Jansen Earlier today I wrote a post describing how you could cleanup the Working Set by editing the XML that stores the Working Sets. I stated that you cannot do this though the Package Explorer view, as a delete from the view would also remove the database. That turns out to be wrong and thanks to Nathan Freeman for pointing it out. When you delete an entry from the Package Explorer view, it asks for confirmation and displays a checkbox with "Delete project contents on disk". I thought it was about [read] Keywords: domino
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Bulk cleanup old Working Set databases
Sun, May 15th 2011 6:11a Thimo Jansen Domino Designer's Workings Sets are a great help in the life of a Lotus Domino developer. They make switching between projects a lot easier and up your productivity. But after a while they become cluttered with databases you might not be working on anymore. Cleaning up from either Designer's Application view or the "Managing Working Sets" popup can only be done one database at a time. And it's a slow process, not something you'd want to full your working day with. The Package Explorer vie [read] Keywords: domino
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Recover Designer Working Sets
Wed, May 11th 2011 3:53p Thimo Jansen If your Domino Designer environment is as stable as mine, you loose your precisely crafted Working Sets at least once a week. I still do not know why Designer is as instable as it has been the last few weeks, but at least I have found a way to recover a lost Working Set. Hooray! The first step is to make sure you have a backup of the notes/data directory. I recommend CrashPlan+. The family plan is hard to beat in price if you have more than one computer or a couple of VM's. It allows you to do [read] Keywords: domino
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Multiple file upload, the easy way
Mon, Apr 25th 2011 12:35p Thimo Jansen It turns out to be very easy to offer a multiple file upload control in Lotus Domino. If, and that's the big one, the end-user is on Firefox, Safari or Chrome. Internet Explorer, even including version 9, doesn't support this. The steps are as follows: Add a File Upload Control to a Notes formOpen its properties and go to tab "" Add "multiple" to the field "Other"Open the form in one of the supporting browsers, click "Browse" and you can select and upload multiple files with one uploa [read] Keywords: domino
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Search for empty fields
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 2:38p Thimo Jansen For many, many years I thought there was no way to search for empty fields in documents. I thought it was not possible, but it turns out it is: The answer is to use the search term "NOT [fieldname] is present", of course substituting "fieldname" with the actual name for your application. Source: Alan Lepofsky's post Searching for blank fields. Thanks to @arnecoomans for the tip! [read] Keywords: application
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Don't use shared fields on mail forms
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 2:39p Thimo Jansen Domino provides an easy way to send database documents by email (SMTP) without requiring any work on formatting it: let Domino use the document's form to figure out a way to render the ASCII email. In LotusScript it works like this:Call .send(True)Even when sent through SMTP, the email will still kinda look like the way the document's form was designed. Easy and convenient, when looks are not that important.But today I just couldn't get the document to be included in the email. Whatever I tri [read] Keywords: domino
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