Vertically stacking members in Dojo List Text Box
Thu, Feb 9th 2012 2:12p Sasa Brkic The extension library provides the Dojo List Text Box (djextListTextBox) control that, connected to a value picker, makes it possible to create a list whose members are easy to remove. Using the oneUI v2.1, the default display is similar to this:
But, what if you instead wanted list members to be stacked vertically? Something like this:
With some CSS, it is actually quite easy to accomplish. First, put your djextListTextBox inside a panel and give it a style class, let's call it vertic [read] Keywords: css
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How expensive is view.getColumnValues()?
Mon, Feb 6th 2012 5:10a Sasa Brkic I need expert help and advice.
In the application we are building, among other things, we keep record of all payments. One of the resources is an XPage that shows all payments due within certain number of days from 'today'.
This is how we did it: we already have a Domino view that displays all unpaid payments. We don't like creating a Domino view for each new requirement, so we decided to reuse this one. I wrote some Java code to go through all of these payments, find those that fall within [read] Keywords: domino
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An application is born: Part 4 - Requirement Management
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 12:09p Sasa Brkic It's been quite a while since the last post, but we haven't been sitting with our arms crossed. Far from it - we have actually successfully finished our first sprint! More about that in the next post. The topic of today's post is requirement management. For me, a requirement has been synonymous with a short, unambiguous, comprehensible sentence describing a (sometimes very limited) set of functionality. Each requirement has to be testable, verifiable and traceable both up and down in the req [read] Keywords: application
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An application is born: Part 2 - Methodology
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 5:11p Sasa Brkic Why do we need methodology? The aim of methodology is to provide us with means - methods, processes, procedures and tools - to accomplish a goal. If we talk about software development, then the goal is to deliver applications that fulfil customers' requirements, on time and within budget. And to do that consistently, release after release, application after application. Now, the problem with software development is that it is such a fluid and vaguely defined problem space. There are so many un [read] Keywords: application
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LotusScript Symphony API broken in 8.5.3?
Fri, Oct 7th 2011 6:11a Sasa Brkic It seems that LotusScript Symphony API is broken in Notes 8.5.3. Our applications that use it (and that have worked fine ever since the API was introduced) stopped working and are popping out the error message that the USE or USELX module *symphonycfglsx cannot be loaded:
Those applications that use the UNO API work as they should. I've seen that some others have reported this issue as well. Anybody else seeing this? And, does anybody know which version of Symphony is in the 8 [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Solved: Symphony 3.0 installer for Lotus Notes (Domino Collaboration Express)
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 6:12a Sasa Brkic Almost a year ago, I wrote that Domino Collaboration Express users were not able to download Symphony installers from the Passport Advantage site. It turned out to be a problem with licensing, and IBM promised to fix it by the time 8.5.3 ships. Well, today is that day and I am happy to say that IBM kept the promise: installers for both stand-alone and embedded versions of Symphony are now available for download for Domino Collaboration (and I believe Messaging as well) Express users.
Per [read] Keywords: collaboration
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An application is born: Part 1 - Background
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 6:11a Sasa Brkic So, we are going to build an application. Exciting! First, let me provide you with some background information. It will help you to better understand the challenges we are facing and decisions that we make. The customer The customer is a crossover between a fitness and a wellness centre. We have had a good professional relations with them for a number of years. They are demanding, but they understand that IT has its own rules and are willing to learn and listen to somebody who knows more about [read] Keywords: application
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An application is born: Prologue
Sat, Oct 1st 2011 6:09a Sasa Brkic I am not an application developer. And I am not an administrator. I am electronics engineer who by chance ended up with an IBM Business Partner and learned to know Lotus Notes / Domino. And I liked it - stable, reliable, easy to upgrade from administrative point of view. And easy to use as a development platform. Security, deployment, all those difficult to master things were taken care of by the platform. I still remember my first programming experiences with Domino Document Manager. And the jo [read] Keywords: document manager
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Resolved: iNotes problems with Domino 8.5.2 FP3
Mon, Aug 15th 2011 9:10a Sasa Brkic This has been around for a week or so, but since I wrote about the problem, then it is only fair to write about the solution as well. So, if you experience problems with iNotes after upgrading to 8.5.2 FP3, head over to IBM support site, download and install the fix: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21508250 We've done that and it works fine for us.
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Best place for coding XPages?
Mon, Jul 25th 2011 6:15a Sasa Brkic Well, this is definitely my favorite so far: Podvrške beach, island of Murter, Crotia.
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Update 2: iNotes problems with Domino 8.5.2 FP3
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 6:14a Sasa Brkic I've got iNotes working on our server. Our environment: RHEL 5.6 32-bit (VMware virtual machine), English locale Domino 8.5.2 upgraded to FP2 and then to FP3, English We are using Daniel Nashed's start/stop scripts for Domino and there we set Domino locale to bs_BA.UTF8. When I comment out the locale setting (i.e. Domino works with the default English locale), the iNotes works fine (including in Firefox 4). If I set any other locale (e.g. de_DE), iNotes stops working. So, it seems that th [read] Keywords: domino
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Update: iNotes problems with Domino 8.5.2. FP3
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 6:12a Sasa Brkic At first, it seemed that this could be a problem with Linux servers, but users on other platforms have also reported the same issue. So, it is platform independent, some are affected and some are not. While we try to figure out why this happens, we restored Forms85.nsf to previous version in order to get iNotes working again. Forms85.nsf is located in DominoDataiNotes folder. You can find previous version of the Forms85.nsf in the DominoDataiNotes852FP2 folder (if you don't have 852FP2, you mi [read] Keywords: domino
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iNotes problems after upgrading to Domino FP3
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 6:08a Sasa Brkic We have just upgraded our Domino servers to FP3 and the iNotes is broken. This is what you see when you try to access mail:
The server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6, Domino server was 8.5.2 FP2 prior to upgrade. The same behavior is encountered for both Full and Lite modes, but the ultra-light mode works fine. We checked with Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 and both displayed the same problem. Others are also reporting the same problem, so be aware of this.
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Virtualizing Lotus Domino on VMware
Tue, Mar 8th 2011 7:08a Sasa Brkic IBM has released a white paper describing test results of a Lotus Domino 8.5.1 environment running on VMware vSphere 4. The white paper is quite exhaustive and covers some interesting scenarios. Highlights: you can run Domino server with 4000 average mail users in a virtual machine with 1 vCPU and 8 GB RAM, even though Nehalem CPUs are faster, you'll do very well with older CPUs as well, disk configuration is important (critical), just like in physical systems, if your disk subsystem is slow, [read] Keywords: domino
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Symphony 3.0 installer for Lotus Notes - licensing clarification
Wed, Nov 17th 2010 4:14a Sasa Brkic Eric Otchet, Lotus Product Manager - Symphony, kindly offered his help in solving the licensing issue with Symphony 3 installers for a Domino Collaboration Express customer. As it turns out, there is an issue with the Domino Collaboration Express licensing structure. For whatever reason, Symphony has been left out of it. All other entitlements are included, such as limited use Quickr and Sametime or Tivoli Directory Integrator, but no Symphony. It hasn't been said explicitly, but I suppose the [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Symphony 3.0 installer for Lotus Notes - another case of absurd licensing
Fri, Nov 12th 2010 8:12a Sasa Brkic As many of you are aware, Symphony 3.0 installers for Lotus Notes 8.5.x are out. Albert Buendia and John D. Head have already reported about it. So, I told one of our customers to go to Passport Advantage site and look for the installers. Soon afterwards, he called back and said that there was no installer or Symphony related download whatsoever. I logged in myself and I couldn't find it either - neither by using part number nor description. I sent an e-mail to PA support asking for help. They [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Looking familiar?
Mon, Oct 11th 2010 7:27a Sasa Brkic In the ever-lasting quest of producing better software applications, we have been evaluating tools for requirement gathering and analysis. One of such tools is IBM Rational Requirements Composer. It has its own server and client, but there is also a web client. When I first started the clients I thought that I was looking at a nice XPages application available for both Notes and browsers: This impression is further enhanced by the client being developed on Eclipse platform, thus having visua [read] Keywords: ibm
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Another way to visualise Lotus Notes data
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 8:30a Sasa Brkic We have been working with a company called 3K IT from Ljubljana, Slovenia for several years. They are developing some very interesting Lotus Notes applications, such as their document / business process management tool called 3K Document Cycle. This is a very flexible tool that enables users to model their business processes and associated document management. I would however like to talk about their newest product, called 3K Report Tool. Using this tool users can easily visualise data from Lotu [read] Keywords: agent
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We are committing to XPages
Fri, Oct 1st 2010 5:29a Sasa Brkic It didn't take much to understand that the XPages and Java are the best choice for us in the long run. I only had to go through a short tutorial on Managed Beans put together by Jeremy Hodge to be completely sold on power and flexibility that XPages, Java and Managed Beans offer. Obviously, there is so much that I don't know, but the little I saw and tried was enough for me to get a credit card and go on a shopping spree. So I bought Head First Java (it seemed like a logical first step) and su [read] Keywords: ibm
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Java for XPages and LotusScript developers
Wed, Sep 29th 2010 5:31a Sasa Brkic Comments to the last post clearly show what I have suspected - if we are going to switch to XPages and want the same level of flexibility and reusability that we have with the current LotusScript framework, then it is only Java that counts. And I am OK with that - I have only limited experience with Java, but I do have solid understanding of object oriented programming as I have previously programmed / developed in C++, UML and ADA 95. And of course LotusScript. Learning Java will thus involve l [read] Keywords: ibm
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The future of tabs - now you can test it too
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 2:26p Sasa Brkic No more than twenty days after I wrote about a new and novel way for tab management, the functionality is available for general public! It is now officially called Firefox Panorama and all you need to do to use it is to download the latest Firefox 4.0 Beta 4. I have already tried it and it works very well. Simple and intuitive to use, this technique will probably replace majority of my frequently used bookmarks. Another new feature in Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 is the Firefox Sync feature which let' [read] Keywords: connections
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