Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Open XPage Instead of Notes Form

Dec 21, 2011, 10:42 AM

53 Posts

Re: Open XPage Instead of Notes Form - Different Database

There are (at least) two ways round this. Either:

Copy the xPage into the other database - you can leave it to inherit it's design from the original template so you don't have to maintain the design in two different places

Use an xPage in the current database that looks up it's datasource from the different database based on a passed in ID

-Think I may have confused which is the current and other database, but hopefully it makes sense

~Vera Nontumibergli

Dec 21, 2011, 11:15 AM

45 Posts

Re: Open XPage Instead of Notes Form - Different Database

Thanks for you suggestions Dan,

I think I will go with your first option. I have never used the inherit design for individual design elements before between databases, I guess I still have a few of the basic to learn!

~Vera Nontumibergli

Dec 21, 2011, 12:00 PM

45 Posts

Re: Open XPage Instead of Notes Form - Different Database

To clarify though,

Does this mean I have to copy all the dependant design elements, ie. all my layout Custom Controls, Style Sheets into the other databases template?

~Hank Quetrepulnivu

Dec 21, 2011, 12:20 PM

53 Posts

Re: Open XPage Instead of Notes Form - Different Database

Yes, that would be the case

To be honest, although I'm not the most experienced xPages developer (but then who is, it's still pretty new), I've done the opposite. Have data split between many databases but kept the design in one database then just used that to reference the data in other databases.

However, assuming you're not going to have multiple different databases, maintaining a copy of design elements in two different dbs from one template is pretty manageable, I've done that quite a lot in non-xpage apps