Category: Lotus
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How to change the look and feel of a view using css
A lotus view open in a browser is very ugly but you can greatly improve using stylesheets (css); here I explain how to use the css in a lotus view in order to improve the look and feel and to display rows in alternate colors.
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The Navigator and Dynamic View Panel controls of the Extension Library
In this article I implement the Navigator and Dynamic View Panel controls of the XPages Extension Library in a similar way to the navigator and views in a frameset of a lotus database open using the lotus client.
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# vs $ in the computed expressions in the xpages
In the xml code of the xpages the computed expressions begin with the character “#” or with the character “$”, ie they are one of the following types: value=”#{[language]:[expression]}” value=”${[language]:[expression]}” where [language] is the name of the language, for example javascript and [expression] is the expression to compute. The question is “what is the difference…
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How to access to a control connected to a lotus field using javascript
In this post I test how to access via javascript to the following controls connected to a lotus field: Edit Box: a control for entering a single line of data Hidden Input: a control for hiding data to the user A Hidden Input control is not such as an Edit Box control with “Visible” unchecked…
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The Form Layout Column control of the Extension Library
The Form Layout Column control allow you to place the various controls (such as Form Layout Row) on multiple columns. In the post The Form Table and Form Layout Row controls of the Extension Library I built a xpage with two Form Layout Row controls at different lines, using two Column Layout Form controls you…
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The Form Table and Form Layout Row controls of the Extension Library
The Form Table and Form Layout Row controls allow you to easily implement a form with the fields and their labels. In this post I use these two controls to convert the form “Document” to xpage in a database that inherits from the template Doc Library – Notes & web (8.5).
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Hidden fields in a lotus form open with a browser
In a lotus form you can hide the fields enabling the check box “Hide paragraph from Web browser” in the window of the properties of the field but in this way the field is not generated as a hidden field, i.e. a html tag input with attribute type=”hidden” is not generated and you can’t access…
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How to fix a corrupted view of a lotus database
I found this command to use on the console of the domino server to rebuild a specific corrupted view in a lotus database without rebuilding all the views of the database: lo updall -R [database] -T [view] where [database] is the path to the database and [view] is the name of the view.
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Attaching shared javascript and css code in a lotus form
The javascript and css code used in a lotus form can also be useful in other forms, and so it is best to save it only one time in a shared place. The pages works well for this purpose and in this post I explain how to create page containing JavaScript code and css and…