Getting email addresses from the Notes address book  

By David Navarre | 6/22/17 1:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

As we work to get our Notes applications functioning smoothly with our Outlook mail, I’m finding ways to keep the close binding between Notes applications and the user’s mail. It’s so much easier to click a button to generate an email associated to a particular Notes document than to copy-paste a document link.

Orphan #Java class files in the Local folder in #XPages  

By David Navarre | 3/31/16 3:35 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Every once in a while, when I do a design refresh for one of my XPages databases, I notice it adding .class files for XPages that I’ve already deleted. So, I do another clean & build on the template, but they’re still there. Annoyed, I console myself that the files are never referenced, so I don’t need to worry about it. Of course, I worry anyway.

An agent to change field values to help in #XPages  

By David Navarre | 3/22/16 4:24 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

With our transition to XPages, I’ve been finding more and more often that I don’t have a form interface in the Notes client to just change one field value on the back end. Too often, on the front end, in XPages, there’s a value I simply haven’t exposed for editing or don’t even display.

Copying property definitions for custom controls in #XPages  

By David Navarre | 3/10/16 12:12 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

Sometimes, when I’m working on my applications, I’ll decide that I want to copy a property definition from one custom control to another. When using the standard properties interface, it’s a lot of work. You have to put the right information into the right fields and switch between tabs. It’s a real bother.

Pause to breathe: a note from Lotusphere ’16  

By David Navarre | 2/1/16 3:12 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I have to be honest. I never knew that I was an introvert. I was always puzzled by the times in my life when I was afraid of people or just wanted to go somewhere quiet. I love reading and my ‘alone time’ reading has always given me that … space.

A venture into DateTimes in XPages  

By David Navarre | 1/4/16 4:59 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently, I was trying to change the display of some dates in our application. We’ve found that the simplest way for our international company to display dates is to stick to the dd-MMM-yyyy format since that seems the clearest. No one wonders whether 1/4/16 represent the 4th of January or the 1st of April, because they all see 04-Jan-2016.

Syntax errors will be the death of us all in #XPages  

By David Navarre | 10/2/15 1:52 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

I upgraded one of our databases overseas and was puzzled when they reported that they suddenly could no longer see the attachments to their purchase orders. Actually, when I heard it, it was just for a single purchase order.

Videotapes of #MWLUG2015  

By David Navarre | 8/27/15 1:01 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

The whirlwind of MWLUG has passed for 2015. It was an outstanding conference, giving me an opportunity to explore a lot of new technologies, to learn some new techniques and to spend time with the peers that I usually only encounter online.

Dave Navarre - Watch MWLUG 2015 Sessions  

By David Navarre | 8/21/15 3:43 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Watch some of the session from MWLUG 2015 recorded by David Navarre. Please follow the speaker on Twitter, their blogs and Slideshare to gain the corresponding slides. They will be available soon.

Using the namePicker from the Extension Library in XPages  

By David Navarre | 8/1/15 4:30 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

One of the things that always seemed weak to me about my Domino web implementations was the selection and display of names. Now that XPages turns our work into the creation of actual web pages, the tools available are so much better and extend the flexibility of Notes development into the 21st century.

Quick look at dialogContent and dialogButtonBar in XPages  

By David Navarre | 6/12/15 11:20 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger

One of the challenges of XPages is figuring out what controls actually do. In a prior post, I wrote about using a dialog to return values to the XPage. It never occurred to me to use dialogContent and dialogButtonBar in the dialog. Today, when I was creating another dialog, I used the palette to find the dialog control.

Creating a meeting in the UI in #IBMNotes  

By David Navarre | 1/15/15 3:49 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

When we tout the advantages of using Notes, one of the key points we always mention is the tight integration between Notes applications and Notes mail. Part of this ought to be tight integration with calendaring and scheduling. Oddly, I’ve never written an application that has any interface with the user’s calendar. This had to change.

Exporting from #XPages to Excel without Excel, Part 2  

By David Navarre | 9/26/13 2:48 PM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Today, I want to spend some time showing the server-side javascript library that I’ve developed (based on the one Russ Maher presented at the AdminDev 2012 conference). So, we’re going to delve into some Apache POI, examining how we pass the configuration information in and which lines of code implement that.

Exporting from XPages to Excel without Excel, Part 1  

By David Navarre | 9/26/13 1:44 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

As much as I’d love my users to simply access their data in my Notes databases, I know they’re going to need to export it. Mostly, they want to be able to manipulate it to analyze it, but they also want to create static reports and to send those reports to external parties that we don’t want accessing our data live.

Nesting repeats to provide links to attachments in XPages  

By David Navarre | 8/1/13 12:42 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Another of the challenges in my assessment XPage problem is that the evaluators will need to open the attachments that were submitted with each grant request. There are two issues here – first, that the attachments are uploaded to multiple separate documents from the grant request and, second, that there might be multiple attachments on each of those documents.

Filtering source views for use in #xpages  

By David Navarre | 5/7/13 12:14 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

In our continuing example of purchase orders, we move from our examination of dynamic field binding in repeats to the filter used on the source view to select the competition questions we want to appear in that repeat control.

Copying views from one database to many  

By David Navarre | 2/19/13 1:41 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Recently, one of our internal clients asked if we could change who could see a button on one view that is in many of our databases. That sounds pretty easy, right? All you have to do is change the template and those changes will be pushed by the Designer task into every database. Well, unfortunately, while almost all of the 65 databases in question contain the same view, some of those views don’t link back to any template.