Yesterday I had a requirement to export a couple of views to csv files. We’ve done similar exports before, usually specific to the particular functions, so have used the traditional file handling functions that have been around for years – Open, Input (for reading), Write, Close. On this occasion, because I was exporting two views […]
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A while ago I worked out I could put an XPage in a sidebar panel. I had also created a widget to act on Live Text (a person’s name or email address) to launch the relevant contact in our CRM application, Touchpoint. Then I had a project where I wanted to be able to act
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I’ve learnt a lot over the years, but occasionally I’m reminded of reusable bits of code I created years ago and am still using today. Deletion logging is an example of that. Before I joined Intec I created a lotusscript library with a couple of function to track attempted deletions, either via a log or
It’s been a while since I last wrote anything on dojox charting, but there is always more. Anyone who was at BLUG or has downloaded the sample database I created for that session will have seen that I extended dojox charting to allow the user to click on a pie chart and navigate through the
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Yesterday Chris Toohey provided one of his typically insightful articles about the change of nomenclature with Domino R8, from database to application. To paraphrase the article, it was a challenge to developers to think before hitting Ctrl + N, that a developer’s toolkit should contain reusable modules that are extended and assembled into an application.
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There have been a few posts recently about triggering client-side javascript from server-side javascript, integrating output from the server-side javascript. Here’s one way of doing it. It may not be best practice, and I’m sure there are other methods – with XPages I’ve come to learn that there are always at least two ways of
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Following on from BLUG last month, I’m attaching the slides and sample XPages database on my blog as well as on the BLUG site. A couple of things to note are: The dashboard will not work in Internet Explorer, because of the way I’ve constructed the chart. By using a repeat control, the javascript series is
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Some time ago Steve Leland added a great article to the Domino Application Development wiki for extending the rich text editor in XPages. On a similar topic, some time ago I posted an idea on IdeaJam for using the Editor2 dojo widget that ships with the Domino Blog template for XPages. For those who haven’t
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If you’re attending Lotusphere Comes to You in London (tomorrow, 13th April) or Edinburgh (Thursday, 15th April) feel free to drop by the Intec stand. Our main points of focus are version-to-version upgrade supported by our iMigrate (https://intec.onyx-sites.io/home.nsf/pages/iMigrate?Open) tool and XPages. The XPages part of our rolling presentation will include a video of the dashboard
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Today I picked up a query on the Notes and Domino 8.5 forum asking how to launch the first attachment on a document from a view panel in XPages. I had done something similar for BLUG in terms of adding content to a view panel and showing a thumbnail picture stored in a rich text
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