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Encrypting documents in XPiNC
One of the nice things that sets XPiNC ( XPages in the Notes Client ) apart from XPages in the browser is the ability to encrypt documents using the native Notes encryption mechanisms. I've just been working on a Proof of Concept for a proposal and had a few issues...
Andrews Presentation at BLUG
My colleague Andrew Champion is doing a presentation at BLUG on Friday about his journey from being a Notes Developer to being and XPage developer. I am helping out but it is very much about Andrews personal journey and his advice to other Notes developers who are...
My BLUG presentation in advance and a request for your help
I am presenting about "The Benefits of XPages" at BLUG on Thursday. I am just coming to the end of a big XPages project ( > 1,000 man hours ) with ABB Global Consulting and they have been good enough to demonstrate the advantages of XPages using their solution ( a...
Making contacts in your Notes CRM database available as a directory
Just a very quick post to show how you can take contact records in any Notes database and make them available to users in the "To" mail dialogue. Integrating custom applications in this way is not very well documented and I would imagine not officially supported. If...
Heads up : Cannot Use XPINC with Enforce Consistent ACL in 852
Just a quick heads up over something that has wasted the best part of a day between us and our customer - oh and IBM who do their IT. You cannot use XPINC in 852 ( it is fixed in 853 ) if the ACL has Enforce Consistent ACL. The technote is below - why developers have...
Heads up for upgraders : 8.5.3 cannot support > 1 rich text editor per xpage if the image upload feature is used.
Just a quick heads up. 8.5.3 ( XPINC and Domino ) cannot support more than 1 rich text editor per Xpage if the image upload feature is used. This will break apps that work in 8.5.2 including the Team Room status reports page ( as reported by Dan Herman ). You can see...
Creating a Clone in Domino Designer from GIT
Here is a very quick and rough screencast of creating a clone in GIT. The screencast has audio. Apologies for the size, I was trying to get the drop down menus in. Click on the attachment at the end to see a larger view If you have some knowledge of source control...
Setting up GIT ( or Hg ? ) for Domino Designer – a collaborative project
I have been working through some community materials trying to set up GIT and although the basics are working there is a lot of detail that I am struggling with before GIT is actually a value adding tool. I am asking for volunteers to help with a collaborative...
Configurable low overhead scheme for date dependent colour coding in views
It is useful to have colour coding of target dates in views but in traditional Notes applications ( as opposed to XPages ) this carries a big overhead if you do the date calculation in the actual column using @today etc. Also see Steve McDonagh's post on colour...
So how do you open an xpage in a different database in XPINC ?
I have spent a large chunk of the weekend and tonight trying to make a suite of XPages applications work in both XPINC and the browser. I'm still confused How it works when everything is in the same database If you want to open a document from a repeat when it is from...