Category: Lotus

  • Validation of an Edit Box control in the XPages

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    In the XPages the “Edit Box” controls have some settings that allow you to perform simple validations. These settings are under the label “Validation” of the control and depend on the value of “Display Type” under the label “Data”; in the figure you can see a screenshot of the validation of an Edit Box control…

  • Buttons for a view in a Custom Control

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    There are standard buttons that are often added to a view that perform the basic functions (new, delete, refresh) that usually you put in a view. The code in this post is a Custom Control you can add to a XPage bound to a lotus view to insert the buttons New, Delete and Refresh. This…

  • Buttons for a form in a Custom Control

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    There are standard buttons that are often added to a form that perform the basic functions (edit, save, close) that usually you put in a form. The code in this post is a Custom Control that you can add to a XPage connected to a lotus form to place the buttons Edit, Save and Close.…

  • Exporting a lotus view to excel

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    In this post I explain how to export all the documents in a view of a lotus database to an excel spreadsheet using the library Apache POI. It is a very simple example that exports the string for each column in the view for every document, but you can add other features such as the…

  • Passing information about UI objects to a java agent

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    The lotus java agents don’t have classes to manage the UI objects, such as in LotusScript with the classes NotesUIDocument or NotesUIView. It’s true that you can find several info about the Notes Client Java UI API in internet, but these classes are not officially supported. In this post I explain 3 ways to obtain…

  • The Dojo attributes toolbarType and toolbar of a Rich Rext control in the XPages

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    The Rich Text control of a xpage is derived from CKEditor from lotus 8.5.2, however in previous versions it was a Dojo rich text editor. A CKEditor control just created in a xpage doesn’t have Dojo attribute explicitly defined as shown in the figure below:

  • Displaying errors in xpages

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    During the development of a lotus application with XPages is very useful to show the runtime errors on the XPages, to enable this feature check the “Display XPage runtime error page” under the tab XPages in Application Properties as shown below:

  • Lotus designer client slow

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    If your lotus designer client is slow opening design elements, try to exclude the lotus directory from the antivirus scan in real time.

  • Getting the list of users belonging to a role

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    Lotus provides the method QueryAccessRoles of the NotesDatabase class to get the roles of a user and there are no methods to get users belonging to a role, but you can get them by combining IsRoleEnabled of the NotesACLEntry class with the function getUsersByGroup that I wrote in a previous article.

  • Getting the list of users belonging to a group

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    There is not a method in lotusccript to get the list of all users belonging to a group, and to complicate matters, groups can contain other groups as members. To solve this problem I wrote getUsersByGroup function that returns the list of users belonging to a group, provided that: the public names.nsf is accessible users…