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We know the power of action and link hotspots. It would be great if we could create them computed, f.e. to give it a computed description or to create a number of hotspots that can vary. I’m sure you know some applications for this yourself (just nostalgically think of those times you bumped your head against the wall in rage ;-)).
It turns out not to be that difficult, but there are some gotchas and restrictions. But don’t be afraid, I’ll take you by the hand and show you where the mines are…
How does it look?
It could look like this:
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I have no idea what will happen next…
- “Yes” will move the files?
- “Yes” will randomly move or copy the files?
- “No” will copy the files?
- “No” will do the same as yes?
- “No” will stop the move/copy process?
- “No” will stop the operating system?
Or… is an operating system anno 2008 that advanced that it doesn’t recognize if I’m trying to move OR copy the files and can’t it adjust its message accordingly?
I have another one for you: “Do you like beer or do you prefer wine?” (Yes/No)
I’ve a MacBook Pro with a wireless Mighty Mouse (Apple’s own mouse), and often I experience a loss of connection after having put my mouse asleep and wake her up again. What I did then, was reconnect by letting the bluetooth configurator scanning for the mouse.
The other day, I read somewhere on a forum that you can easily reconnect the mouse just by clicking the button a few times. Duh… how simple is that? I realized that I never really did this, I just moved the mouse around in circles without result…
Did anybody else notice this? Everytime I restart Notes Standard Edition, the buttons in the toolbar have moved. And not only just moved, they do it in a way they take up as much space as possible. Then I clean up, rearrange, and next time: tada, back to messy!
It’s like cleaning up the toys of your child, turning your back, look again and… welcome back, toys! That’s probably what Lotus meant with Lotus Domino Everyplace ;-).
Today I had this: double text properties!
It’s like the little gnomes that do the icon arrangements were thinking: “You can never have enough text markup!”.
If you’re like me, you like the design of the action bar in the inbox of your R8 mailbox.
The round buttons, the orange gradient and the blue match the new client very well.
Unfortunately, for us, developers, these are features that are out of reach to build in regular views and forms at this moment. Even in the mailbox the buttons on the memoform have “normal” looks.
I tried to get as close to this “ideal” as possible and this is the result.
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Do you like the Refresh Design functionality as it is now?
- Go to menu Application - Refresh Design…
- Select the correct server.
- Wait…
- Repeat for the next databases.
I needed a way to see if an agent is running. To my knowledge, there’s no such thing possible with “normal” Notes-programming (is there such thing is normal programming in Notes?).
Collegue Jo Van Eynde (all credits go to him) came with the idea of sending a console command and capturing the output the console returns. Brilliant!
If the agent manager isn’t doing anything, it’s just idle, otherwise it returns something like Running agent ‘x’. Once you know that, it gets really simple.
My last post was about how to monitor if agents didn’t run for any reason (not only because they weren’t signed well).
There were some restrictions though:
- Currently we are running on Domino 6.5.
- I prefer a free solution
- It needs to be simple and do this specific task.
(1 votes, average: 2 out of 5) Loading ...Today I have a question for the community. Actually, the question came from my boss with my current customer. As always, the simplest questions seem the hardest to resolve :-). The problem is: there are a number of agents that should run on a daily basis, but every now and then, it happens that something goes wrong (f.e. a design update with an id with insufficient rights) and the agent don’t run.
Of course it is possible to do some agent logging, send mails if an agent ran or gave errors, but is it possible to do the opposite? Receiving messages when an agent DIDN’T run? Are there any agent monitor tools or techniques? Or am I missing something very obvious here? Any ideas?
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5) Loading ...Did you ever play with the InViewEdit event? Do you also believe it’s a bit of a dangourous feature? Users that accidentally change documents because they click an editable cell? I know, there are ways to prevent this from happening in code, but a good indication of what cells can be edited (and thus “be careful when you click those”), could help. Also, this helps the user in viewing what cells can be edited from within the view.
In the example below, can you tell what cells are editable?
(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...I have a MacBook Pro, and when I use it at my desk at home, I want to make as little connections as possible (I don’t have a docking station). The current connections I use when docking: DVI to my 22″ monitor, the power connector, and (when I need some good music) my speakers.
After creating a Notes Mail Database Size Indicator - graphic version, a version for Notes 8 Standard was introduced on Conxsys Blog.
This is a nice peace of work. The only thing I wondered: why would I need it, if you have a mail indicator as a standard feature on the Notes server? Some weeks later I found an answer on this question myself: with my client, they installed Notes 8 Basic (unfortunately not my decision) while keeping the Notes 6.5 server as running platform (unfortunately not my decision).
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...I saw a post on IdeaJam asking for a solution to this problem.
The thing is: if you have an action button on top of an embedded view and this button tries to run code that refreshes or saves the uidoc (t.i. the document that has the embedded view on it), this will crash your client.
In the first part of this article I talked about why you should consider the Spry framework as a valid alternative for input validation in the browser. Now I’ll demonstrate how it works in Dreamweaver and in the next article, how to transfer the validation to Domino Designer (I decided to split up the article in different parts for the Dreamweaver side and for the Domino Designer side).
Adding the input validation to a form in Dreamweaver CS3
I invite you to start the beetorial to the left. In less than 5 minutes it shows you how to add input validation to a form in Dreamweaver CS3 (although it took more than 5 hours to build it :-)). I recommend running it in full screen (press <F11> in most browsers).
It’s not only intended for Notes developers, but is also useful for anybody that wants to learn about input validation in Dreamweaver CS3.
In the beemo I start with a form I already prepared (it’s loosely based on a form I found in The Art & Science Of CSS, a very inspiring Sitepoint book about practical and visually stunning CSS techniques.
I add validation to fields for name, email, date and checkboxes and I show how it looks like in the browser.
Bare in mind that the validation messages look a bit boring at the moment, but in a future part I will demonstrate how easy it is to create validation eyecandy.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Thanks to all those who took the time and the effort to vote for a Forum Friday image. And the winner is…
I know there’s Dojo. I know there’s Prototype. jQuery. There are a lot of JavaScript libraries available, and most of them have objects dealing with input validation. I saw Rocky’s session about Dojo on LotuSphere. An inspiring session that got me started delving into it, but I found myself a bit disappointed about how it looks. There are 3 themes available that change the look and feel a bit, but they all look rather ugly to me. Creating a theme of your own, so they tell, is a huge work (and that’s why there are only 3 themes).
While thinking about alternatives, I started looking at Spry, the Adobe’s framework embedded in Dreamweaver CS3. Spry can do much more than input validation, but for now I’m only interested in this part. It’s available for free, but if you want the ease-of-use you will need Dreamweaver CS3.
In this first article about Spry, I want to show you why it can be important to you if you are a Dreamweaver user. It’s just a warming-up to get your attention actually :-).
In a second article I’ll start with a Dreamweaver prototype form and Spry it up and in a third article, I’ll transfer it to a Notes webform. If there’s enough interest, a fourth article could be about Sprying up an existing Notes webform.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...A couple of days ago I did an OS X software update. After the reboot, my wireless network (with a D-Link router) was found, but I couldn’t connect any more to the Worldwide Pool Of Wisdom (WWpoW). As I started to search the web (using a Windows XP laptop from my customer - oh irony), I discovered there where a lot of users with the same issues. There’s also an article on this.
Here’s my very own album. I thought it was fun to give myself over to the random madness 
. Thomas Bahn, Viktor Krantz, Nathan Freeman, Ben Langhinrichs, Chris Whisonant and many others were some of my big musical examples.
Everybody has seen this mirror effect in modern webdesign. Maybe you have an overdose by now, but I want to show how simple it is to create such effect in Fireworks. In this tutorial movie I demonstrate how to create such mirror effect in approx. 1 minute.
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...As I mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to design a logo for Forum Friday. I personally like the bull in the image, Declan likes it without the bull and text. Everybody has a different opinion on this, so I thought: why not do a good old fashioned poll about it?
So I created 3 variants of the logo. Apart from the poll, you can still comment at the bottom of the article to express some more “nuance”.