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/
Win8 will require major rewrite of apps?
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 6:10a Brian Moore One of the things I love about Domino is the backwards compatibility . It's not as easy, but if you write it you don't have to rewrite it because there is a new Notes/Domino release. You may want to, in order to take advantage of new features and styles, but it won't break just because there is an upgrade.
Things seem to be different in Redmond-world. According to The long kiss goodbye for x86 desktop Windows is this quote:
So, just in case you didn’t understand that [read] Keywords: domino
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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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