div For the last several years, Ive used the Domino Developer Network to host my personal Notes apps. Overall, Ive not had any problems. Support requests werent answered in 2 seconds, but since they werent critical, I got decent responses - except for the one time the request got lost entirely./divdiv /divdivLast month, however, I created some new XPage apps and moved them up. When I tried them from a browser, they didnt work. A little troubleshooting showed that quot;.xsp is not recognizedquot; - meaning the Domino server isnt 8+. DDN says its servers are 8.5 so I put a support ticket in the middle of last month. After over a week of not hearing anything, I put another in. Both are sitting in the queue without response. I gave it more time, then emailed the only other addresses I could find, billing and sales. I got an automated message back that had a phone number. Yesterday I called that. I couldnt get anywhere, the automatic system just bounded me around until it hung up on me (twice). /divdiv /divdivSince Im not getting any response from DDN, Im going to have to look for a new hosting provider, so does anyone have any suggestions? Im itching to get my XPage apps up. br /br /Im really disappointed in DDN for this. Ive been a quite customer for years, and now it seems I cant get any response at all from them. I think Ive given them more than enough time (since were now talking over a month) to make some response. I know they have different levels of support, and Im not on the drop everything and run level, but this is much longer than Im willing to take. And Ive been patient. But Ive not gotten any acknowledgment that they have seen my requests for help, or asking me for clarification. Whenever a vendor does this type of thing, it says to me, the customer, only one thing quot;We dont care about your business.quot; Vendors can do something to show they are at least queuing up a request - and Id take that. My not this silence. They are getting my money, but they dont seem to be interested in it any more. So I guess Ill have to see if someone else is interested in my money./divdiv /divdivSo, suggestions? Good hosting plans? I actually own a copy of Domino, so I could even use a non-Domino hosting site if I could load it on.br /br /Cheers,/divdivBrian br //div
Able to say Thanks
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:11a Brian Moore Being at Lotusphere means i get to shake hands and thank some of the people who have helped me. That alone is great. Yeaterday I got to thank Stephan Wissel http://www.wissel.net/ He has long been an asset to the community. Cheers Brian [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Notes in 9: PDFs from XPages (part 2)
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 3:11p Brian Moore My second Notes in 9 has been posted check it out! I expand on my first one mostly with examples from Ulrich Krause. At the end, I mention using the XAgent to generate PDFs after having the user enter data on an XPage. I'm working on that just now, and I'm almost finished. The project is to have a user fill out a series of screens wizard-fashion, and at the end have it properly populate a PDF. Since an XAgent is an XPage, I just open that XPage with the document I've been collecting [read] Keywords: ibm
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Printing mailing labels from Lotus Notes
Sat, Dec 31st 2011 10:09a Brian Moore I've been doing some work with iText to generate PDFs. One of the things I do every year is send out a lot of Christmas cards. Naturally, want I want to do is take my data from a Lotus Notes database and print up labels to stick on the envelopes. There is little out there to make it happen. But since I have been working in iText, I thought I would try to do it with that.
I stated out by defining the entire page (as a rectangle), so I would have control over the layout. Then I started exper [read] Keywords: lotus
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The problem with rebranding...
Sun, Oct 23rd 2011 7:10p Brian Moore I'm always amazed at one part of any rebranding effort, and that is the disregard for the adherents to the "old" brand. Marketers come up with a new brand and/or logo to give a fresh start to something, but I've never once seem them take the people who actually like the old brand into account and involve them with the new one.
Lotus is probably rebranding, I've accepted that. I'm not happy with it, but hopefully it will keep the technology that I work in around for a long tim [read] Keywords: ibm
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Agent to facesContext stream: I'm missing the connection
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 8:09p Brian Moore Stephan has a great post on using facesContext to handle the output of an agent. But I'm missing how you hook the agent output to this. I'm not a deep Java guy, and I've been looking for it and not finding it.
What I want to do is have an agent where I create a document (a PDF at this point, so Java) and create a file then serve the file to the browser. All the examples I'm finding are showing how to do it all in via the writer where you write the text in (like the example in t [read] Keywords: agent
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Get all attachment names for xPages
Sat, Aug 20th 2011 3:14p Brian Moore For a project, need to get the name of an attachment in a rich text field for use in an xPage. Easy in LotusScript, but using the Java vector to go through the objects in the RT field took me a bit to figure out, so I thought I'd share. The code below will return the names of all the attachments in a RT field.
var db:NotesDatabase=session.getCurrentDatabase();
var doc:NotesDocument=db.getDocumentByUNID('80E2193C517E9B3A872578D90018D92E');
var valString:String = "";
if (d [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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New line in Xpages with iText
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 9:11p Brian Moore I just posted on using iText to create PDFs via xPages. Working on this, I found it difficult to put in a new line (carriage return). After some experimentation I found this works:
newPDF.add(new com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph(' '));
newPDF.add(new com.itextpdf.text.Chunk.NEWLINE);
I'm not sure why a bit of space does it, but just adding NEWLINE wasn't doing it.
Cheers,
Brian [read] Keywords: xpages bleedyellow
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iText in XPages
Sun, Aug 14th 2011 11:10a Brian Moore Declan has a post about using iText to dynamically create PDFs using xPages. Since this is something I'm working on right now, it's been a godsend. Actually, Declan's been a godsend for the entire xPage community with his tutorials.
But back to iText. iText is a Java library that lets you create PDFs via code. Very useful. Declan's post above is an introduction to using it in xPages. As he says, his post is a good starting point giving the reader. I'm not a big JavaScript d [read] Keywords: xpages community
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Dynamatic external URLs in XPages
Fri, Jul 29th 2011 7:13p Brian Moore One of the few things you can set programmatically in Xpages is the URL target of a Link custom control. And sure enough, I have a need to just that. I've been working on a little app for a friend of mine that is like a list of bookmarks, with some categorization, tags, and searching. I wanted to have a view (or data table or whatever) with the links displayed and when you click it it just takes you to that site in a new window/tab. One little bits missing: the diamond next to the link URL:
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File Menu Export to MSExcel
Mon, Jul 4th 2011 8:16p Brian Moore So I had a keystroke flub today that seems to have revealed a trick. It's worked a couple of times for me today, but I'd like to see if it works for anyone else.
OK, we all know you can do File>Export to created a 1-2-3 spreadsheet, but 1-2-3 files can't always be imported to new spreadsheet programs (Symphony, MSExcel, etc.). What I did was while exporting as a 1-2-3 I accidently told it to save as a .xls file. It did, and I was able to open it in MSExcel like it was native. A [read] Keywords: symphony
