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The Long Road Ahead . . . Transitioning To Angular From XPages
Back in the summer of 2020, we began our long term goal to move our SaaS front-end applications to Angular from XPages, and this is what our first Proof-of-Concept (PoC) looked like at the end of that very first day. Admittedly not a lot, but small acorns and all...
Displaying Markdown in an XPage using the showdown.js library 2
Displaying Markdown in an XPage using the showdown.js library I wanted to move to a text based changelog in our applications rather than a Notes form or even an XPage.The idea was that it would help make it easier to deal with merge conflicts in source control. I...
Adding a new column to an Excel XML data table
Adding a new column to an Excel XML data table We use XML feeds from our Domino applications to pull data into Excel. Users can right click on the data tables and they get updated from Domino. The functionality generally works well but if you need to add a new...
How we use XPages
How we use XPages Cameron, Jesse and Paul have been putting a lot of effort into explaining how they use XPages and it has prompted me to post this on how we at FoCul use XPages, something I have been meaning to do for a while. I will hopefully post more about why we...
Adding a new column to an Excel XML data table
We use XML feeds from our Domino applications to pull data into Excel. Users can right click on the data tables and they get updated from Domino. The functionality generally works well but if you need to add a new "column" to your XML feed there is no way in Excel to...
Source Control Disables Some Scheduled Agents in IBM Notes
Just a quick heads up about something that is known about but still catches me out from time to time. It may even be fixed in the latest versions but I can't find any IBM tech notes on it. If you have a scheduled agent that is set to run "More than once a day" and...
Notes designer crashes after resolving conflicts in source control
If you find that your Notes Designer crashes when you try and open an NSF that has recently had conflicts resolved in source control it may be that a view has had the conflict resolution markup added. This causes a DXL error and crashes designer. Remove the view from...
Quick Tip – passing parameters when using XP:openPage
Just a very quick tip. If you are using the XPages simple action and you need to pass a parameter via the URL then you can do this. You will need to add it via the source as designer doesn't support it via the properties. <xp:openPage name="/xp_f_mod.xsp"...
Displaying Markdown in an XPage using the showdown.js library
I wanted to move to a text based changelog in our applications rather than a Notes form or even an XPage.The idea was that it would help make it easier to deal with merge conflicts in source control. I eventually settled on using Markdown as I couldn't get the...
Amazon Workplaces – great for temporary machines
Juts a quick post to mention Amazon workspaces. We have been migrating 20 years of Notes data to a new XPages application and needed to PDF over 200k documents in the process. To do this we needed to run several Notes clients continuously for several weeks to create...