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Gridx in XPages – 4: Loading Live Data via a REST Service
In the last post, I showed how to get a simple Gridx grid up and running in an XPages application with hard-coded data. In this post, I’ll show how to load live data via a REST service, which requires...
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Gridx in XPages – 5: Modularizing Common Resources
The second post in this series showed how to use the djConfig property to make the Gridx (or any other library’s) resources available to an XPage. Looking forward, I wanted to find a way to modularize...
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Gridx in XPages – 6: Adding a Feature Module (Column Resizing)
In the last few posts, we’ve looked at how to modularize Gridx resources for easy reuse and generate a grid with live data from a REST service. In this post, we’ll see how to load modules for...
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dGrowl Redux – Using a Dojo Module Path Resource to Include the Library
In light of recently figuring out how to use a Dojo Module Path Resource to make a Dojo library available in an XPages application, I wanted to revisit the way I’ve been including dGrowl. In this post,...
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Gridx in XPages – 7: Column Sorting with a Remote Data Source
In the last post, we saw how to add a feature module to Gridx, using the simple example of resizing columns. In this post, I’ll show how to add column sorting with a grid using a remote data source....
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Gridx in XPages – 8: Column Sorting with a Local Data Store
In the last post, I showed how to implement column sorting in a Gridx grid with using a remote data store (JsonRest). In this post, I’ll show how to use AJAX to pull all the data locally for faster...
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Gridx in XPages – 9: More Sorting Features
In the last two posts, we looked at implementing column sorting on remote and local data stores. In this post, we’ll look at more available sorting functionality: setting the initial sort order,...
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Gridx in XPages – 10: Nested Sorting
In the last few posts, we looked at implementing column sorting on remote and local data stores along with additional sorting features. In this post, I’ll show how to simply implement nested column...
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XPages Tip: Setting the Body Class
If you need to set a class on the body tag of an XPage, you can do so via a page property. In this post I’ll show how to set it and the effect that it has on an XPage and Custom Control. Default Body...
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Gridx in XPages – 11: Grid API Methods
Gridx has a number of handy API methods for working with the grid, rows, and columns. In this post, I’ll show a number of examples for how to start working with the grid programmatically. Gridx Series...
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Gridx in XPages – 12: Adding Event Handlers and Opening a Document
In the last post, I showed how to use the Gridx API to get information about rows, columns, and cells. In this post, I’ll show how to attach an event handler and use that information to open a document...
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Gridx in XPages – 13: Customizing Cell Content
So far, we’ve only looked at displaying text from the REST service in the grid. However, you can also customize the content dynamically based on a value. In this post, I’ll show how to do use the...
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Gridx in XPages – 14: Preparing to add Filtering by Using the Claro Theme
In the next few posts, I’m going to dig into the great filtering features provided by Gridx. But I ran into problems using them without the Dojo theme being set correctly, so this post will show what...
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Gridx in XPages – 15: Adding QuickFilter for Full-Text Searching
The QuickFilter module provides simple full-text search functionality to a grid. In this post, I’ll show how to use it and how it works. Gridx Series Gridx in XPages — Entire Series The QuickFilter...
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Gridx in XPages – 16: Advanced Searching with the FilterBar Module
In the last post, we looked at simple full-text searching with the QuickFilter module. In this post, I’ll show how to use provided more advanced search capabilities with the FilterBar module, which...
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Gridx in XPages – 17: Defining Column Data Types in order to Provide Number...
In the last post, we looked at how to easily add advanced filtering filtering to the grid. In this post, I’ll show how to define number and date columns so they can be filtered appropriately. Gridx...
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Gridx in XPages – 18: Formatting Date and Currency Columns
Certain data types in the grid are not automatically formatted in the way that you’d prefer. In this post, I’ll show how to format date and currency columns in a grid using features built into Dojo....
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ConnectED Session BP105: Take Your XPages Development to the Next Level
There are so many great features of XPages that it’s hard to keep up with them all! If you’ve built a few applications, then you’re ready to take your development to the next level. This is not a...
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Gridx in XPages – 19: Column Group Headers
If you have more than a few columns in the grid, it can be helpful for the user to divide the columns into groups and label them. In this post, I’ll show how to add group headers. Gridx Series Gridx in...
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Gridx in XPages – 20: Improving Memory Management with Virtual Scrolling
Gridx will render DOM elements for every row in the data store by default, but this can be a very inefficient use of memory and can hurt performance. In this post, I’ll show how to add virtual...
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