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Domino Oddness on Azure – 38 second delay in sending mail from web UI
We have had an odd issue on Domino that we have not been able to resolve despite lots of input from HCL. I just wanted to post it in case any other person comes across it. The symptom is a Domlog entry for 38 seconds when you trigger an email via XPages. This happened...
Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code!
Our presentation from Engage 2022, Bruges, Belgium, on 24th May 2022. Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code! An introduction to automated testing, focusing on End-to-End Testing of browser-based applications Testing Matters v1.0.0a 240522
Engage HCL Technology User Group Conference Observations
Observations from the 2022 Engage User Group HCL Technologies conference
Excellent support from HCL ( including XPages )
Excellent support from HCL A recent customer security audit raised two concerns with our Domino SaaS applications. A significant part of the reason that we use HCL Domino is that it is robust and secure. As a matter of principle we do not code security ourselves but...
XPage View Bug in Domino 11.01 FP5 HF12
We have been having a few issues with FP5 and I just wanted to share our latest one as it is quite interesting and may affect others. It is worth reading this post from Oliver Busse too HCL support has been very helpful to date. We have more tickets open than we ever...
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...