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XPages Tip: Adding a Bootstrap Class to All Labels via the Theme (Redux)
In this post, I showed how to set all labels in an application to include a class to pick up Bootstrap styling so it could be applied application-wide and not require touching every label control...
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XPages Tip: Overriding, Concatenating, and Conditionally Adding Control...
Themes are commonly-used in XPages applications to include resources needed throughout an application, but they can also be a powerful tool for consistently applying application-wide control settings....
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XPages Tip: Displaying Bootstrap Applications Properly on Mobile Devices
Do you have a Bootstrap navigation menu in XPages that collapses properly in a full browser but not on a mobile device? You may need to set a meta tag to force it to display properly. In this post,...
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Efficiently Keeping an XPages Session Alive with JSON RPC
In my last post, I talked about the difference between two reasons that a user may be prompted to login again while using an XPages application: idle session timeouts and LTPA token expiration. There...
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Browser Session Lifespan – Idle Session Timeout vs LTPA Token Expiration
I recently spent some time investigating a client’s reports of unexpected behavior with the duration of browser sessions while testing an application on a test server. From time to time, they were...
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XPages Tip: Passing an Array to a Custom Control Property
Custom properties are extremely useful for modular design and reuse by sending custom values into each instance. There are a number of data types that can be selected, but no obvious way to pass an...
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XPages Tip: Beware Server-Side code in Multiple onClientLoad Events
TL;DR – Server-side code in onClientLoad causes a page refresh and prevents additional onClientLoad events with server-side code from running. In this post, I’ll show an example and describe how it...
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getFragment() Doesn’t
The XSPUrl object that you can access via the XPages context has a lot of handy methods. getFragement() isn’t one of them. I was looking through the help documentation for XSPUrl recently and noticed...
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Transferring a Bitbucket Repository
I recently needed to move control of a source control repository on Bitbucket from a personal account to a company account. Fortunately, there’s a relatively easy built-in process to transfer it...
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Handling Errors in an XPages RPC Method
The Remote Service (aka xe:jsonRPCService) is an extremely useful control in XPages because it examples client- and server-side code interaction, runs asynchronously, performs well, and is easy to use....
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IBM Connect Presentation Uploaded
At Connect last week, I presented a session on using grids in XPages with Paul Calhoun. Here’s a link to the slide deck AD-1207: The Grid, the Brad, and The Ugly: Using Grids to Improve Your...
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Speaking at Connect
At Connect next week, I’ll be co-presenting two Best Practices sessions, one on grids in XPages with Paul Calhoun and the other on web apps and IBM Digital Experience with John Head. AD-1207: The Grid,...
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Domino Designer Tip – RegEx Searching for a String with Single or Double Quotes
If you’re looking for a string value in code throughout your application, it can sometimes be frustrating to weed through extraneous results. If you know the exact string, you can make the search more...
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Fixing the Width of a Select 2 with a Long Value in a Bootstrap Form Group or...
If you have a Select2 control within a form-group or input-group div in a Bootstrap UI, a long value can cause the Select2 to grow to become wider than its container. In this post, I’ll show how to fix...
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Fixing a Bug with Dropdown Buttons in 9.0.1 FP3 and FP4
If you use Dropdown Buttons in XPages on Domino 9.0.1 and a OneUI 2.x theme, there’s a bug with two recent fixpacks (FP3 and FP4) that breaks them. In this post, I’ll show what happens and share code...
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XPages Tip: Reading Custom Properties and Modifying a Component Before a Page...
If you need to read a property on a custom control and do something to any component on the page before a page loads, it can get tricky because the compositeData object is not available in the...
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MWLUG Slides – AD114 Take Your XPages Development to the Next Level
In this session at MWLUG 2015, Paul Calhoun and I dug into a number of features already available in XPages, but not as widely used. We only had time to cover half of the sections, but the full set of...
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Updating Select2 Styling to Match Bootstrap Fields
Select2 is an awesome jQuery plugin to enhance the functionality of combo boxes. But if you implement it in an application with a Bootstrap UI, you’ll notice that the styling is not consistent. In this...
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Fixing an Issue with Glyphicons with a Bootswatch Theme in XPages
In this post, I’ll describe an issue that I had with glyphicons when using a Bootswatch theme in XPages and how to fix it. When you use a Bootswatch theme, you do not need to separately include the...
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XPages Tip: Displaying View Panel Sort Icons on a Separate Line
If there isn’t enough room to display both the column title and sort icons in all column headers in a view panel, you can end up with an uneven look. In this post, I’ll show how to use CSS to move the...
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