HCL Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition Forum

Apr 28, 2016, 2:12 PM

18 Posts

Widget and Date Recognizer

It is possible to build a Notes Widget that creates a Lotus Notes Meeting based on a Date. There were bugs that were fixed in 9.01 FP5 that are needed to make this work.

They will need to do a couple things:
1. Build a recognizer for the date format they want to recognize (the date format needs to be one that can be accepted by the date fields in a meeting).
2. Build a Notes Widget that opens a new meeting and sets the dates as desired.

I have built one form of such a widget: (create an xml file from this and then drop it into the Widgets sidebar panel)

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<webcontextConfiguration version="1.1">
<palleteItem contributeTabOnStartup="false" contributeToSideshelfOnStartup="false" hideThumbnail="false" id="1809376523" imageUrl="" providerId="com.ibm.notes.toolbox.provider.NotesFormPalleteProvider" singletonSidebar="false" title="New Meeting" url="Notes:///0000000000000E00/Appointment?OpenForm" viewImageUrl="">
<preferences>
<preference name="EndDate">
<value>01/28/2014</value>
<displayName>EndDate</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="EndDateTime">
<value>01/28/2014 11:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>EndDateTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="EndTime">
<value>11:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>EndTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="StartDate">
<value>01/28/2014</value>
<displayName>StartDate</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="STARTDATETIME">
<value>01/28/2014 10:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>STARTDATETIME</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="StartTime">
<value>10:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>StartTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
</preferences>
<data DB_PATH="" REPLICA_ID="0000000000000E00" TYPE="FORM" database="" doc_url="Notes:///0000000000000E00/Appointment?OpenForm" form_name="Appointment" server=""/>
</palleteItem>
<fragmentInstance id="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config.1809376523.837394727" palleteItemId="1809376523" title="New Meeting">
<contextData>
<actionType>204</actionType>
<contentTypeId>DCCT.DateandTime.1170031047</contentTypeId>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="StartDate"/>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="EndDateTime"/>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="EndTime"/>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="EndDate"/>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="STARTDATETIME"/>
<wire contentTypePropertyId="contents" parameterID="StartTime"/>
</contextData>
<preferences>
<preference name="EndDate">
<value>01/28/2014</value>
<displayName>EndDate</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="EndDateTime">
<value>01/28/2014 11:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>EndDateTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="EndTime">
<value>11:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>EndTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="StartDate">
<value>01/28/2014</value>
<displayName>StartDate</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="STARTDATETIME">
<value>01/28/2014 10:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>STARTDATETIME</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
<preference name="StartTime">
<value>10:15:00 AM</value>
<displayName>StartTime</displayName>
<enumValues/>
<enumDisplayValues/>
<datatype>Date Time</datatype>
<isEnum>false</isEnum>
<isRequired>false</isRequired>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
</preference>
</preferences>
</fragmentInstance>
<dynamicExtension extensionPoint="com.ibm.rcp.content.contentTypes">
<contribution contributorId="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config">
<extension id="DCCT.DateandTime.1170031047" point="com.ibm.rcp.content.contentTypes">
<contentSet>
<type category="Recognized Content" id="DCCT.DateandTime.1170031047" name="Date and Time">
<property description="Entire Contents" id="contents"/>
</type>
</contentSet>
</extension>
</contribution>
</dynamicExtension>
<dynamicExtension extensionPoint="com.ibm.rcp.annotation.regex.regexTypes">
<contribution contributorId="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config">
<extension id="DCR.DateandTime.566678936" point="com.ibm.rcp.annotation.regex.regexTypes">
<regexTypes contentTypeId="DCCT.DateandTime.1170031047" id="DCR.DateandTime.566678936" match="([0-9]+[-/][0-9]+[-/][0-9]+)\s([0-9]+[:.|/][0-9]+[ ]*)([AP]M)*" name="Date and Time">
<group contentTypePropertyId="contents" number="0"/>
</regexTypes>
</extension>
</contribution>
</dynamicExtension>
<dynamicExtension extensionPoint="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
<contribution contributorId="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox">
<extension id="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config.1809376523.837394727" point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
<objectContribution id="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config.1809376523.837394727" objectClass="com.ibm.rcp.content.IDocumentContent">
<visibility>
<and>
<objectState name="content.type" value="DCCT.DateandTime.1170031047"/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
<objectState name="contents" value=""/>
</and>
</visibility>
<action class="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.GenericWebAction" enablesfor="*" id="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.config.1809376523.837394727" label="New Meeting"/> </objectContribution>
</extension>
</contribution>
</dynamicExtension>
</webcontextConfiguration>

Notice in this screen shot below that the date in dash underlined in blue:

If you hover over the date, you can open the Live Text drop down menu:

Choosing the New Meeting action will open this:

By Role

convert date to hyperlink