With today's announcement of a release date for Domino 8.5.2, it seems the right time to review some of the features I've come to like in the closed beta. Some of them are just usability enhancements, ...
Quick Setup / Restore of Domino Designer
Mon, Feb 13th 2012 7:13a Paul Withers David Leedy recently posted a video on Domino Designer Tips and Tweaks, which is great. But sooner or later, you’ll move to a new PC or (god forbid!) have a serious problem with Domino Designer / Notes and really want to reinstall, to clean everything up.
Then you’ve got to remember what settings you changed and where to find them.
Except you don’t. Because Domino Designer is on Eclipse. Out of the box, Eclipse gives you the functionality to export your preferences, as Dan [read] Keywords: domino
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Combining $ and #: An Alternative Approach
Sat, Feb 11th 2012 7:07a Paul Withers Over the last couple of days there have been a few discussions about combining Compute on Page Load and Compute Dynamically. The full trails are below:
Sven Hasselbach’s initial post
My explanation of what’s happening in the source code and Java
Sven Hasselbach’s response
A possible alternative from Mark Roden
Both make good points and I have to say I’m glad I don’t have to make a decision on what changes, if any, should be made to Domino Designer as a result! Whe [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages Bindings: When # Runs at Page Load
Thu, Feb 9th 2012 7:03a Paul Withers As developers get more comfortable with XPages, one of the steps is to start to using the Compute on Page Load option instead of the Compute Dynamically option for Server-Side JavaScript. But there are times when that can’t be done. I encountered this last week and it took a chat with Jeremy Hodge for me to understand my problem. One of my colleagues had the same problem yesterday. And Sven Hasselbach has blogged about the same issue today. Unfortunately, it’s not a bug. It’s a [read] Keywords: xpages bug
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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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