This show is actually a part 2 of my own “XPages Jumpstart”. The first being “Introduction to XPages”

This 50ish minute show is very Demo heavy and discusses custom controls, UI Frameworks, Server Side JavaScript (SSJS), Dojo, Repeat Controls, Rendering, and even an early attempt at creating a “Custom Class” with SSJS. Many of the demos are also the basis for xpagescheatsheet.com and the demo app is downloadable from there as well.

Anyway – in case anyone missed this, here it is.

Here’s the original higher res version of the demo.

Also if you’re a Twitter user you might want to consider following @XSnippets to keep up to date with the lastest happenings in the Snippet world.

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8TNBVZ

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8TEA9D

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8SV9JC

UPDATE: Apparently there’s a problem with how the demo section was rendered. I’m investigating.

UPDATE2: Problems with video fixed.

I’ve had many conversations with Tim, and he’s so far ahead of the game I’m usually pretty happy if I understand 50% of what he’s trying to say. But in this demo, which is a more advanced topic I was able to really grasp what was going on.

Hope you like the show!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/notesin9/Ni9-063-InViewEditControl.mov

Demo Database
Presentation Slides

Some code from the show:

Setting the “Can Logout” ability:
sessionScope.put(“extlib.user.canlogout”, true)

A link for the manual logout node:

href = facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest().getContextPath() + “?Logout&redirectTo=” + facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest().getContextPath()

Control rendering on the manual logout node:

var uName = session.getEffectiveUserName();
if(uName == “Anonymous”) {
return false;
}

else {
return true;
}

In this show I take a brief look at a couple of different topics. First I talk about the Extension Library and the Upgrade Pack and what I personally perceive to be differences betwen the two.

Then for the Demo, I talk about several different ext. library controls. The focus is on Field Layout Controls like “Form Table”, “Form Layout Row”, and “Form Layout Column”. But to get to that point I first touch on the App Layout control and the Navigator. I hope you like it.

For more information on App Layout control Steve Pridemore did a great show on it in episode 42.

Prior to the Demo there’s an important service message for the Kennedy Kreiger Institute.  They are directly involved in crucial care for Matt Reimer as discussed in a post by Rob Novak.  The program that benefits Matt is having it’s funding significantly reduced. Here is an article about Matt and the funding issue.

I would only ask that if NotesIn9 has ever benefitted you, maybe you would consider donating to this worthy cause.

The website is: http://helpkids.kennedykrieger.org
To donate be sure to select Other in the Fund Designation section and enter “ALD Research”
To contribute by mail, make checks to Kennedy Krieger Foundation, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205-9851. Memo: “ALD Research”

Thank you for the consideration!

In this show I take another look at Source control in Domino Designer. I feel it’s an EXTREMELY important topic. There will hopefully more more shows coming as well.

In this show I talk more about the servers to hold your repository. We take a quick look back at Declan Lynch’s server that I demo’d in Episode 41 , and then I show how you might go about getting the information needed to build your own internal server.

Finally I take a long look at a hosted server called bitbucket.org. They can host your repositories, have free plans, and are at least a little bit XPAGES FRIENDLY!!! Woo Hoo!!!

http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-8GP6RP

In other news I’m trying to improve how I use other outlets for NotesIn9 information. If you like, please follow @NotesIn9 on twitter. I also have a facebook page.

UPDATE: Here’s the Demo file for the episode.
THIS HAS BEEN FIXED. Sorry about that.

UPDATE 2: Steve also used the Fake Names database for data. That can be found at XPagesCheatSheet.com

I must be clear here that everything I know about this I learned from Declan Lynch. Check out his blog at www.qtzar.com. He is the true expert. Hopefully he’ll be able to contribute his Lotusphere session to NotesIn9.

Personally I can’t emphasize enough that we as Notes/Domino developers, whether you’re using XPages or not, start understanding and using Source Control.

This show is not to be missed for XPages Developers.

Fasten your seat belts!

No demo today. Just some information in this exciting new server announcement.

There’s quite a bit in here for the beginner. I create a repeat control, bind to a foreign database, control rendering of the document section, use simple actions and SSJS and even show the world how bad I am with CSS.

The viewer also wanted to be able to create NEW documents, but I’ll save that bit for a future show.

Hope you like it.

This is a really basic show for those new to XPages. If you’ve been a long time viewer there might not be much new here.

Thanks again to John for taking the time to contribute this tip. I’m really exicited to have him and a couple more great guests lined up for some upcoming shows.

I take the Export to Excel example, and demonstrate how you can improve that by getting and using a parameter from the URL so the exported Excel document has only a subset of records.

Nothing really fancy today.

Graham will talk about his journey into learning this new technology and then will show off a couple of interesting demo’s and tips.

When I first heard of this presentation, which I think he did for a Canadian user group, I thought that this might be really inspirational. Everyone who starts out learning XPages struggles with it. The first several weeks are the hardest. The way to get past that is to not get frustrated. Realize there is a roadmap to improving your skills and that you’re not alone out there. There are now a lot of great resources out there for XPages information. Here’s just a couple:

XPages.Info
XPagesWiki.com
XPages Forum
XPages Blog
Designer Wiki
XPagesCheatSheet.com
XPages101.net
XPages.TV
OpenNTF.org
TLCC.com

Again, a big thanks to Graham for his presentation.

I hope it’s helpful.

Mark Hughes from hugesconnect.com comes on the show to discuss his custom control creation – a very powerful View Picker.

Some links from the show:

Original Forum thread from 2009

JavaDoc Information

Stephan Wissel’s solution

In this show l will demonstrate how have a repeat control and get a handle on any documents that the user selects.

I’m making ANOTHER attempt at getting embedded video working. It might not last it it messes up iTunes…

I’m TRYING to improve the site… It’s slow going.

P.S. This is the 25th episode of my normal NotesIn9 show. All the XPages shows, the XPages Jumpstart and the Extended Editions can be found easily at xpages.tv

P.S. Ok. I’ll admit it. I did have a thought on doing some April Fools Joke here. Maybe a Rick Roll – but then I thought that the “Rick Roll” has run it’s course. Maybe that “Friday” song should be the new Rick Roll? But don’t worry. This video is safe!

P.P.S If you have a Mac… and Kids… a great April Fools prank is to ssh into the mac from an iPad or other device and use the “Say” command. Great fun. I had my kids thinking their Mac was Watson’s cousin.

Post 1
Post 2

I believe that XPages is RAD. I pretty much did the building in 3:45 give or take a second or two. It might be interesting to spend another 5 minutes to add things like security, validation and mobile controls to make it truly production ready.

I know there’s some problems getting to my videos. The direct download link is here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/notesin9/Ni9-23-XPagesRace.mov

I have this on YouTube as well here:
YouTube Video

Again – this is just an all in fun kinda thing. There are pros and cons to any platform.

XPages: Beyond the Introduction

Some time ago, I did another show called: Introduction to XPages. That 73 Minute show was always meant to be “Part 1″, and “Beyond” was meant to be “Part 2″. Taken together I consider this a free XPages Jumpstart coming in right around 2 hours. I’m particularly proud of the “Beyond” show as there are TONS of demos from pretty basic to a little more advanced.

But rather then just show a video of demos, I wanted to come up with something that might be a little more helpful. I really like the Demo app of the XPages Extension Library, so I decided to come up with my own. No Extension Library needed.

So today I’m announcing the grand opening of:
XPagesCheatSheet.com

The first purpose of this site, is to be the home site for the XPages Cheatsheet(s). In addition to holding the PDF’s, this site also contains many of the Demo’s used in the “Beyond” show. I’m making the template, cheatsheet.nsf, downloadable along with the FakeNames.nsf data database that I use. Feel free to pick it apart. It’s my intention to try and continue adding to this database with additional tips and demos as I create more NotesIn9 shows.

I hope the video and demo app area good resource to the XPages community.

I had some technical problems in the show. The sound changed for the demo portion somehow. Also I messed up due to the last Extended Edition and missed episode 23. So the next one will be 23.

So anyway – here you go. I hope you like it.

The code for my function is:
Code Sample

This is an Extended Edition so it’s a little longer and more detailed then the normal shows.  Chris opens up designer to show how some of the features on his website was built.  Lots of good nuggets of information in there.

Disclaimer:
I was not paid for this review. Over the years I’ve purchased with my own personal money several TLCC courses, including the first XPages course. However, I was given a free review copy of the second XPages course and I do talk about that course during the show.

First I’ll be talking about a bug in XPages dealing with Dates – specifically @Now(). Then I’ll show how to use the onComplete event handler to combine Server Side and Client Side Code.

If you like this video, please give it a rating for the Lotus VideoFest event.

Notes:
There ARE problems with the feed reaching iTunes. I’m looking into it.

Thanks!

Starting with this episode, Jeremy is going to do a series of videos that is designed to Introduce Java to the XPages Developer.

I’ve been wanting to have a guest speaker on the show for a while and Jeremy’s done a a great job out of the gate with this very timely content. This really came from a couple of posts over on Sasa Brkic’s Blog last week.

I hope you like this Extended Edition.

This is a pure intro session and I assume you are a Notes developer but really have no knowledge of XPages.

UPDATE: I’m having technical problems with this post. I’m attempting to fix it.

UPDATE2: I’ve corrected the file on the website. Not sure if it’ll make it to iTunes. I’ll check tomorrow.

UPDATE3: iTunes seems to be working fine. Additionally here’s a link to download the file that I was playing with.
Demo Application

This show starts out with some announcements and details of some Free and Paid training options for XPages that are available in August.

For the technical portion of the show, I give a demo on how to use Server Side JavaScript (SSJS) to retrieve a categorized column total and put it on an XPage.

The code for the main example is:

var cView:NotesView = database.getView(“vOrders”);
var nav:NotesViewNavigator = cView.createViewNav();

// Since you can’t do ‘getCategory’ – find the first doc and backup 1
var entry:NotesViewEntry = cView.getEntryByKey(sessionScope.get(“key”));
entry = nav.getPrev(entry);
if (entry == null) {
// Nothing to Do
}
else {
return entry.getColumnValues()[2];
}

Links:
IamLUG
MWLug
Tack It On

I’ve created a little example that allows you to link contacts to each other and assign relationships between them. As a bonus, I show an example of using a view control and also a repeat control. In addition I have an example of reversing it to show who is related to a particular contact. Similar to “My followers” in Twitter.

The goal of the show is really to demonstrate that XPages allows us to re-think how we design our data.

Download Demo File

UPDATE:
iTunes hasn’t updated yet for some reason. The video is also available on YouTube:

This concludes “NotesIn9 Week”. I hope you liked the shows. I did 3 XPage shows, 1 End User, and 1 traditional Notes Client. So hopefully there was something for everybody.

Anyway – I hope you like the show. I’ll post the database file shortly.

In the show I also discuss the need to improve our user interfaces and link to Scott Good’s Lotusphere 2010 session – “You Can’t Fix Ugly“. This slide deck should be required viewing for all Developers, but especially all NOTES Developers.

This show was born on the Notes 8.5 Forum. Judy Kilpinen was posting a question about multi-value fields in XPages. A comment was made that most of the Repeat Control examples only showed repeating views or document collections.

So in today’s show I’ll demonstrate two ways to repeat a multi-value field. The first from a document and the second from a view. The interesting thing about the view is to pull it off I’ll nest a repeat INSIDE a repeat.
How crazy is that?

This show also contains a short public service announcement for Bears On Patrol. I believe this to be a worthy organization that’s dedicated to helping children in a particular time of need.

In today’s show I talk about XPages and especially the need to start becoming comfortable with the source window. Unlike traditional Notes Development where you only have an IDE, XPages allows you to access the actual XML source of the page. Watch how you can use that to your advantage and do a couple of simple things that can not be done in the IDE alone.

May the source be with you!

Also in this show is a couple of shout-outs to some recent additions to the Lotus Notes screencasting and podcasting world.
Tips In Two
The X Cast
XPages101.net

One note about this show. It’s my first attempt using a new microphone. It’s called a Yeti. I’m not sure if I have it set right just yet. Certainly the keyboard came across too loud in this one. I think it’s better in tomorrow’s show.

It’s called “Wiki Madness”.

Wiki Madness is an event that will run from now until the end March 2010. The purpose of this event is to attempt to raise awareness and visibility of the excellent content that members of the Lotus Community create on a daily basis.

Here’s what happened. I’ve been meaning to get my screencasts cross posted to the Domino Designer Wiki for a while. Not all of them of course, just the ones with the relevant tip or technique. Finally I found some time and with the help of Amanda Bauman of IBM, I got episode 11 posted to the wiki.

Then the most interesting thing happened. I’m not one to watch my stats that much, but since I was playing with this new embedded player for the wiki’s I happened to check my stats and to my surprise, the traffic that I got from the IBM servers quickly eclipsed the traffic I got from iTunes, notesin9.com and YouTube combined. I can only believe that these people are viewers who might not have been aware of my show.

I learned that there’s an audience that knows about the Product Wiki’s but maybe not PlanetLotus. And since I didn’t really know that much about the Wiki’s maybe the PlanetLotus contributors are not aware of this additional audience. So I was talking to Chris Toohey of dominoguru.com about this and we jointly came up with the idea to try and bring the communities closer.

The gist of it is this:

There’s a ton of great content that is being posted to personal or group blogs. Why not simply cross post this content to the the relevant wiki? You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Add an “About the Author” to the end of the wiki article with information about yourself and links back to your site. Now both the PlanetLotus audience and the Wiki Audience has a chance to see your content and recognize you as a contributor. It’s a win for all participants.

Then we thought, ok but how do we try and get this going? How to we promote this idea? Well, I had brought back a few things from Lotusphere to give to Chris for giveaways for his site. My wife does the Blogger of the Year award and I needed to ship that to him anyway. He decided it would be better to use the swag items I brought back for this project as an “incentive” to get the ball rolling. We then started asking around to see if we could gain some other items and Lisa Duke from STS and TipsinTwo immediately answered the call by sending us a tremendous “goodie box”! Since then we’ve been talking with various other people in an effort to increase our stash. More details of how this works will be announced by Chris on the community call today, and later on his blog and we’ll be talking about this off and on as the event progresses.

So that’s the Event. Please check out wikimadness.com for further details. If you’re so inclined, show your support by placing out article submission widget on your own blog.

Ok so what about Notes In 9? Well I sub titled this episode “Wiki Wonka and the Collaboration Factory”. This episode talks more about the wiki’s, why you might want to participate, how much traffic do the wiki’s get, and then I do a demo of how to create a wiki article and use the Wiki Markup language to make it look good.

I hope you like it and I hope you take some time to add content to the wiki. It’s really not more then copy and paste.

Thank You!

And now Notes In 9  – Episode 12 – Wiki’s

The point of the show is at the end where I combine XPages, CSS, Blueprint Framework, Themes, and Custom Controls to create a layout (header, sidebars, etc…) that you can easily include on every XPage.

I hope you like it.

Hope you like it.

P.S. This should be my last non-tech show.  Once Lotusphere prep is over I’ll be back doing some technical tips in XPages and the Notes Client.

Also on the agenda is some more Notes in 9 announcements and a community Lost and Found message.

This show will be posted on YouTube – BUT you can now see the videos right in from the website.  Just click on download or on the MOV icon and it should start playing in your browser at full resolution.  Please let me know if you have any problems.

The final RSS isn’t ready yet, it will be soon.  Once that’s set I’ll post it and then that will be the best method to subscribe and get the new shows.

Thanks for watching!

Also a big shoutout to my buddy Chris Toohey who actually beat me in blogging about this!  Last night when I finished the show I uploaded it to YouTube and hit the sack.  Chris Toohey doesn’t sleep, he just goes into power saving mode.

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