Blog & Technical Insights

Facets are nothing new in XPages. They are the bedrock of what makes XPages so configurable. Drop an Editable Area on a Custom Control and you can place content on that facet when you drop the Custom Control onto an XPage or another Custom Control. As with any other control, they’re not only for use […]

Now that Notes & Domino 9.0 Social Edition is gold, here are a few highlights of new functionality I particularly like. Source Pane Enhancements There are two significant benefits for XPages development here. The first is hyperlink navigation to Custom Controls. This has already saved me a lot of time during the betas. Most of […]

Declan Lynch has been writing a very comprehensive introduction to Java for XPages developers. I would strongly encourage it for any XPages developer. Like many Domino Developers, my Java experience was limited at best prior to XPages, but a knowledge of Java opens up a door to greater power. You can take advantage of managed […]

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I’ve always been a huge fan of Local History. It’s one of those pieces of standard Eclipse functionality that adds great power to Domino Designer. And because it’s standard Eclipse functionality it’s something developers find out about over time. So a bit of background quickly. Local History allows you to retrieve previous saves of design […]

Over the last decade social tools have become not only prevalent, they have become critical to business. Just under a decade ago I created a LinkedIn profile. I doubt I was in the first wave of early adopters, but I was early. So early I forgot about it for a few years until I started […]

Like many XPages developers, I run a local Domino server installed on my laptop. There are a number of reasons for that: Building an application is quicker when it’s on the same PC. SSJS sessionAsSigner doesn’t work if there are multiple signers for design elements in use on the page. (I’m assuming that’s still the […]

Late last night I released the XPages OpenLog Logger project on OpenNTF. There have been options for logging to OpenLog from XPages for some time – Matt White’s OpenLogXPages SSJS library from TaskJam and the OpenLogItem class I included in XPages Help Application. So why did I bother with this? Firstly, if you think this […]

I’ve recently been looking back at an application I added some XPages functionality into a while ago and realised there were a couple of Server-Side JavaScript tips I have not shared before. The first is actually unnecessary where I’ve used it. I think Tim Tripcony mentioned it and I started using it all over the […]

I’ve been using Java for some time and one of the benefits is that there are a whole host of options for managing collections of objects. In SSJS we have arrays, as we do in LotusScript. LotusScript also gives Lists. SSJS and Java also make use of Vectors, most often for lookup keys, field values […]