Category :
xpages
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I really do think xpages are great. For
the first time I believe I have a real web development platform with Lotus
Domino, rather than feeling like everything is a hack. The only problem
is, its making me feel like a hack trying to figure some things out. Add
to that Odd Quirks that throw
me for loops for hours and it gets to be so frustrating and I start to
feel as sharp as a pound of wet leather.
Now, I'm trying to set up a simple XPages
user registration page. You know, enter your user name, password, confirm
your password, etc ... I've got validation working all the way around,
except I need to validate that the password and the confirm password boxes
have the same value, and for the life of me, I can't figure it out. I try
to write validators in the same manner that worked for other fields, except
I hit roadblocks every time I attempt to compare the two fields.
I thought I was good when the Domino
Designer Wiki had an example of exactly this .... well, it didn't work
either it uses a method getSubmittedValue() that doesn't actually exist,and
when I try to access the values any other way, it just doesn't work.
XPages are really great, they are game
changers, but they are also a pain to figure out ...
Category :
xpages
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Did you know ... an XPage's name in the
URL is case sensitive ?
http://www.YourDomain.com/yourpath/yourdb.nsf/UserProfile.xsp
is not the same as
http://www.YourDomain.com/yourpath/yourdb.nsf/userprofile.xsp
if your XPage is named UserProfile,
userprofile.xsp returns a 404 error
Update: Its not consistent. while userprofile.xsp
and UserProfile.xsp might work, userprofile-userconfig.xsp and UserProfile-userconfig.xsp
may not.
Category :
lotus domino documentation
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Oh, Lotus documentation writers, for future
reference, when I need to know how to create a theme document in a database,
don't start me out by having me creating a new database .... It's bad enough
the help here is 17 steps,difficult to visually follow, and looks like
it came straight from the middle of the dictionary. Seriously, this
entire help document can be condensed down to:
"To create a new theme resource,
Open your database in domino designer, and expand the Resources category.
Double click the "Themes" entry, and click the "New Theme"
button. Give the theme a name, and click ok... then add a few links about
what the #&*$* a theme is, how to apply it to the database, and, add
a few links to other topics and we're good. Seriously.
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Category :
xpages
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So I have an xpage, inside that xpage,
there are two Custom Controls ... the visual header and footer of the page
... in the header custom control, I load all my common CSS files, in the
proper order I want them called ..
Then, in the xpage itself, I want to
load another CSS file, specific to that xpage. That CSS overrides CSS defined
in the linked style sheets that are included in the Header Custom Control,
so the <link> in the generated HTML needs to appear after the
CSS <links> from the header. In the XML code, the header is defined
before the stylesheet resource, as below...
<xc:yb-header></xc:yb-header>
<xp:this.resources>
<xp:styleSheet
href="/default.css"></xp:styleSheet>
</xp:this.resources>
However, the server always outputs the
style sheets defined in the XPage first, then any in the included custom
controls. If I look at the Styles property box, the only style sheet shown
is the one from the xPage, not anything defined in the custom control.
So I can't specify to load those before the custom control.
Does anybody know a way to tell xpages
the order of to load the linked CSS files, including the ones in the custom
control? I'd hate to have to define them each time in the xpage itself.
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Category :
xpages
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1. Computed Fields are treated as block
elements in the designer, even though they render as spans (thus inline)
:: To reproduce, set clear:left; as the style for a computed field,and
it clears the left margin in the desiger, but not in the browser (correctly
so) - which leads me to the next issue:
2. Change the css on a computed field
to display: block and the field's label disappears in designer, so unless
you know its there, it just looks like white space
3. I find all that out because, what
I really want to do is set a Visible property of some computed fields,
with a <xp:br> after the data to format (like an address), but not
leave blanks lines if there is no data, BUT you can't set the visible property
for a break (<xp:br></xp:br>)
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Category :
xpages
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Unfortunately, until now, I have not been
able to get deep into xpages like I have wanted to. And to be honest, some
of the talk around the the virtual water cooler was telling me I was in
for a little ride getting into it. Today I started my journey, helped along
the way by others ahead of me like Declan
and with very little help from the Lotus Documentation (is it just me that
finds the help difficult to navigate from a "where do I start and
where do I go" perspective)??
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Category :
yellowbubble
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Category :
CMS
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Anybody out there know of a good (open
source or paid) CMS based around domino and have experiences in it they'd
like to share??
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Category :
simple-html-css
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One of the things I've noticed a lot lately
is developers when designing for the web, work way to hard to accomplish
something on the web. Especially Domino designers. Thats mainly because
we haven't had a real web-friendly design interface. I felt some reluctance
and even push back when it comes to designing using CSS, and it just causes
more work.
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Category :
redwings
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Just a quick shout out to the Detroit Red
Wings in contention for awards in tonight's NHL Awards. Its not going to
be the same as winning the cup, but having our team bring home some other
trophies will be nice too. Datsuyk is up for a boat-load, and hopefully
Lidstrom gets #7...
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