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Set Focus on a Field when Showing a Bootstrap 3 Modal
While testing an application that I’m working on, I noticed that the focus is not set on a field within a Bootstrap modal when it’s shown. This is annoying to the user because it requires to tab a...
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XPages Tip: Control Declaration Snippets
Control Declaration Snippets give you an easy way to retrieve a properly-typed handle to an XPages control on your page. In this post, I’ll show how to use them and why they are beneficial. Control...
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Computing Custom Date Format Patterns Throughout an Application
If you want to ensure consistency in date formatting throughout your application, you can define the pattern for each Edit Box or Computed Value control that displays a date. What you may not have...
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Monitor Source Control Synchronization with the Console View in DDE
If you’d like to monitor the synchronization of an application with the local source control repository, you can use the Console view in Domino Designer. In this post, I’ll show different kinds of...
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XPages Tip: Fixing a partial refresh issue with the Pager Add Rows control in...
I came across a strange issue with a Data View using a Pager Add Rows control resetting the number of documents displayed after a partial refresh. In this post, I’ll explain the scenario where I saw...
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XPages Tip: Select a Working Set in Package Explorer (and Navigator)
If you’ve been using Domino Designer for any length of time, you’re likely aware that you can group your applications into Working Sets in the Applications view. But did you know that you can do the...
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XPages Tip: Getting the Value of the Current Field with SSJS (@ThisValue...
Sometimes, I miss the convenience of several @functions. If you’re writing SSJS code that needs to access the value of the current field from an event handler on that field, but you don’t want to...
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URL @Functions in the Extension Library
There are a few @Functions for working with URLs available in the Extension library. They can come in handy if you need to work with URLs related to any element in your database. Availability These...
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Getting the Base URL of the Current Database with SSJS
It’s easy to get the current page URL in SSJS with context.getUrl().toString(). However, it’s a little less straightforward if you just want to determine the base URL of the current application. This...
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Allowing 0 Rows in a Repeat
The Allow zero rows in repeat controls setting in XSP Properties can be used to cause a Repeat control not to display any rows, giving you the ability to compute the row count as desired, even when...
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Modifying an XSP Property fo a Single XPage
I’m familiar with setting XSP properties in xsp.properties at the application or server level and I’ve used tags to do the same within a theme, but I did not realize until recently that you can also...
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Domino Usage Survey
As you may have already heard, PSC has posted a survey to gauge current usage and future direction for Domino. If you haven’t already taken the survey, please take a moment and let us know how Domino...
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Client-Side JavaScript Debugging Tip — Using XSP.dumpObject() and XSP.log()
The XSP object is a client-side JavaScript object that is built and delivered by the XPages runtime and it contains a number of useful functions, some of which are always available and some of which...
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Article Published in The VIEW: Improve Application Performance with JSON-RPC
An article that I wrote on improving XPages application performance using JSON RPC has been published in The VIEW journal (subscription required). One of the best-kept secrets of XPages is JSON-RPC...
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XPages Tip: Using _dump to write information to the server console
I recently showed how to use a built-in client-side JavaScript function to dump the contents of an object for review. In this post, I’ll show a somewhat similar method available in Server-Side...
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Including a Java Class in SSJS
You’re most likely aware that SSJS really is really turned into Java under the covers, but did you realize that you can use Java classes in SSJS? In this post, I’ll show how with a simple example....
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Initializing Global Variables and Synchronous AJAX Calls in an Angular XPages...
In a recent project (an XPages application with an Angular front end), I had a need to (a) run a script to determine user access and (b) store that value globally. In this post, I’ll show one way to...
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Gridx in XPages – Series Introduction
Gridx is the next generation of the Dojo data grid. I am very excited to say that I’ve got a basic Gridx grid loading properly inn XPages. About Gridx Gridx is currently at version 1.3.3 (as of June)....
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Gridx in XPages – Using djConfig to Make the Code Available
The last post covered some of the benefits of using Gridx, but before we can create a Gridx grid in XPages, we have to make the code available to the application. In this post, I’ll show how to use...
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Gridx in XPages – Creating a Simple Grid
In the last post, I showed how to make Gridx available in an XPages application. In this post, I’ll show how to create your first Gridx grid in XPages. Assuming you have already followed the steps in...
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