NotesViewEntryCollections
Wed, Feb 1st 2012 7:11a Paul Withers One of the benefits of XPages is the power of repeat controls to effectively perform ‘joins’, whether that is with nested repeat controls or merging data prior to displaying in a repeat control. When it comes to collections of documents I tend to favour NotesViewEntryCollections. This is both for performance (predominantly using getColumnValues().get) as well as sort order (NotesDocumentCollections are sorted on document creation order).
Recently I had the need to extend an existing [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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XPages Source Panel: Navigate to Next Sibling
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 2:12p Paul Withers As a student of Classics and university and an IT professional, one of the key phrases in my life is a saying of the ancient Athenian lawgiver: “As I grow old, I always learn more.” One of the beauties of XPages is you can always learn more. Sometimes it’s through the pain of incompatibilities of different pieces of technology; sometimes it’s deliberately, whether at leisure to advance one’s personal skill-set or out of necessity for a current project; and sometimes [read] Keywords: domino
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Have a BOF Idea? It’s Not Too Late
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 2:06a Paul Withers Just before Christmas two new communities launched on Lotus Greenhouse for Lotusphere and Connect
The communities have a wealth of useful bookmarks, wiki articles and other content. IBMers and Champions have been adding content over the last few weeks and will continue to build in that in the lead up to Lotusphere and during the conference. The communities are intended as an ongoing resource for attendees to use to get the most out of the conference. (If you have any further questions, thereR [read] Keywords: connections
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XPages Date Picker: My Preference
Thu, Dec 15th 2011 3:12p Paul Withers Today I took part in the Ask The Xperts webinar by GBS and TLCC. One of the questions was about problems with the XPages date picker in Internet Explorer 8. When not in compatibility mode, the page refreshes as soon as the user clicks on the date picker. There may be times when you want to avoid compatibility mode, for example, when using the CSS float property.
My preferred option to get around this is to use the Dojo date picker. However, if the Dojo module is applied to the inputText tag itse [read] Keywords: xpages css
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Upgrade Pack 1 Has Arrived
Wed, Dec 14th 2011 3:11p Paul Withers In a busy week for IBM, Notes/Domino Upgrade Pack 1 has shipped today, as announced by Ed Brill. The upgrade pack is important for a number of reasons:
For customers requiring officially IBM-supported code (an argument I struggle to understand in application development, but that’s beyond the scope of this blog), this provides a supported release of the Extension Library
It ushers in a new way of delivering additional functionality outside the point release cycle
It provides updated XPage [read] Keywords: domino
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