Blog & Technical Insights

Yesterday I was hit by a problem. I was looking to set the login page for a suite of applications to an XPage. Some years ago I had a project and, with much less XPages expertise than now, just added some hacky code to redirect to a login XPage based on a sessionScope variable, so […]

One of my colleagues has been working on an XPages application and, because of other requirements, was creating his own modal dialog for taking action on a particular entry in a view. First, it’s worth a bit of background if this is something you’ve needed to do but are not sure how to. My usual […]

In a recent project I decided to use Single Copy XPage Design (SCXD). This is a seemingly useful technique that is in many ways similar to the concepts underpinning XPages on Bluemix: one database holds the data and it points to another database that contains the XPages-specific design elements – XPages, Custom Controls, StyleSheets, Themes, […]

This week I’ve been working with a significantly re-organised repository of OpenNTF Domino API. There were a few issues and it prompted me to finally get round to installing the latest fix packs for Notes and Domino. They had come out just before Engage, where I was speaking, so I chose not to upgrade then […]

These days virtually all my work on XPages and Custom Controls is done in the source pane. But by default when you open the design elements, they open to the Design pane. Wouldn’t it be great if it opened to the Source pane? The good thing about the Package Explorer is that by right-clicking on […]

in

In more recent projects I’ve written my agents in Java. Although it meant copying some code across (and in some cases, rewriting it a bit because the agents were not using OpenNTF Domino API), it helped keep muscle memory. However, I encountered some strange behaviour when refreshing design of the databases. LotusScript agents were fine, […]