Designing XPage Applications

Scoped variables should be used in caution in XPages applications. We will mention about some usages in scope variables that are not advised.

Hi,    I have one view which is categorised on first column  and I had added sorting on 4th and 5th column in both(acending and decending order. When i used it in view panel control i supplied it a key based on the current user login . But if i try to have sorting on 4th and 5th column it sort it ...

Here is the design for a simple file picker using basic XPage components. For demonstration purposes, the picker displays the text content of a picked file. It's amazing how little code is needed for implementation.

Here is sample JavaScript code for the class NotesDatabase. Eventually this sample code will find its way into the documentation. Corrections and comments are appreciated.

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The video is the first in a series of Articles introducing you to the concepts needed to work with Java in your XPage applications. Topics covered in the series include Java Classes, Managed Beans, Converters, Validators, and more.

XPages has a number of languages, but there's nothing stopping you combining them. This article outlines the languages available with examples for mixing languages, to help speed up your coding and confidence with XPages

Dynamic view content in XPages - using XPage options

XPages V852 now supports Public Access for XPage Design Elements and accessing Documents and Views.

Here is a list of the new XPages features and enhancements, some big, some small, that are in IBM Lotus Notes Domino 852. It's an A to Z with one-liners (a little rough now, some with placeholders - we will get to those in time), with links to existing articles and blog posts.

XPages data defined as Number may not be correctly typed for use as a parameter to some Domino Objects. You must force a conversion.

This presentation shows the inner workings of the server-side JavaScript in Lotus Domino Designer.

This presentation covers XPages enhancements in 8.5.1 and what's coming up in 8.5.2.

using the Jquery's wildcard

Yes, if you have a Domino server that does not have any XPage applications (including discussion databases) and you want to disable the XSP engine, you can add the following notes.ini parameter to your Domino notes.ini: INOTESDISABLEXPAGECMD1 This parameter requires an HTTP task restart.

Have you ever wished you could set the style of an element programmatically, well using dojo.style now you can.

Get a browser window height and width These client side JavaScript functions will return the height and width of the browser window content area. This is useful when doing graphics operations with a javascript library like Dojo, Moo Tools, jQuery, etc. Window Height  The height of the ...

This method will allow your users to progress through a large form piece by piece, without refreshing the form and losing data already input by the user. You could also use this method within itself, to give the user progressive disclosure, saving on time for the user and screen real estate for ...

If you have done any XPage development at all you know the power of using custom controls in your XPage design.  One issue though is if you are using many custom controls on an XPage it is difficult to tell where the XPage design elements start/end and the Custom Control elements start/end. ...

I had a student ask recently about the ability to set the background color of a table row based upon a value in the data.  This is something that was pretty commonly done in traditional Domino Web Development.  In investigating how to do this I couldn't find a way to implement this using the ...

So the first question is why would we use an Domino XML Data Source instead of a standard view design? I'm glad you asked. A couple of reasons. Views can be limited to the amount of data that they display in the alloted columns. Using Java and LotusScript developers can write agents that returned ...

In the turnkey Notes application I have made available on my  download site  (http://www.nnsu.com) I have created a Form that allows developers to choose an application from their local system or a server, select the Forms, Sub-Forms and Shared Fields to be transformed and simply click an action ...

Here is a list of items that you may encounter as you upgrade your Domino 8.5 XPages Application to 8.5.1; JavaScript Context Changes; EventHandler Changes; Navigations can now be computed; Using getUrl(); Library and Function names; The Button's Icon Class; Localization Changes; Hidden Input, ...