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…

1. “Yes” will move the files?
2. “Yes” will randomly move or copy the files?
3. “No” will copy the files?
4. “No” will do the same as yes?
5. “No” will stop the move/copy process?
6. “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)

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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…

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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!”.

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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.

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1. Go to menu Application - Refresh Design…
2. Select the correct server.
3. Wait…
4. Repeat for the next databases.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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In the example below, can you tell what cells are editable?

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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