by Russell | Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
A big congratulations so all those whose abstracts were accepted for Lotusphere.I especially want to congratulate anyone who is speaking at Lotusphere for the first time.I am truly thrilled to see that the trend of broadening the speaker pool which...
by Russell | Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Domino Designer does not always update the source code nor does it always make it obvious that an error exists within your XPage code.This nasty little issue, although infrequent, can result in a great deal of time wasted when you are making changes and...
by Russell | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Do you need a form for an XPage? No. Can it makes things easier/faster for you? Yes. Here’s how.I create simple unformatted forms for my documents because I often have the fields for a document spread across multiple custom controls....
by Russell | Nov 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
XPages generate specific HTML tags for controls.Consider the Computed Field control…by the time it reaches the client it becomes a <span> element.You can override the default HTML tag name via the tagName property on many controls.Maybe you want your...
by Russell | Nov 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
My approach to development can best be described as “results-driven”. I like theoretical techniques, I like knowing why things work the way they work and I always like to hear about other (and perhaps better) ways to accomplish what I have done...
by Russell | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am pretty sure I am the only one who gets XPage errors (feels like it some days) but just in case I am not…Sometimes the “twistie” that shows the XPage Stack Trace is collapsed and will not respond to a click.What to do? Use Firebug of...
by Russell | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last weekend I was working on some code and needed to pass two values to a client-side JavaScript function.No problem except that one of the values for the function was going to be the ID of an XPage component. Since XPage ids are generated...
by Russell | Nov 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
I can apply formatting to individual XPage elements with the best of them but…once all that formattin’ gets into a rhythm I go back and migrate all the styles into style sheets. (“Hey look! I keep formatting these things the same way so I must...
by Russell | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of the best things Domino Designer gets from being in Eclipse are the shortcuts for commenting code. They really make it easy to do testing and/or save code “for later”.CODE COMMENT SHORTCUTSCTRL + SHIFT + CComments/Uncomments a line of codeCTRL...
by Russell | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Many times I need a combo box or radio button group that filters something (view control or repeat control etc.) and the choices for the user need to be…AllNorth AmericaLatin AmericaThe problem is if they choose “All”, I really just want a null...
