Recently I did some investigation to use Bower in XPages. Bower is a very powerful tool to keep all your front end frameworks updated and also keep track of dependencies. Today I was adding Bower support to an existing XPages app, by adding the bower.json and .bowerrc files to the root of the GIT repository Read More
Bower4XPages
Yesterday I read the blog post by Keith Strickland about CSJS Workflow, where he mentioned Bower. I heard the name frequently when I was exploring the modern web development frameworks, like AngularJS and NodeJS. So I started to investigate, what is Bower and how it can help me by managing the frameworks in my (XPages) projects. Read More
My way to Internationalisation Pager controls
This morning I read a blog from Patrick Kwinten about a internationalisation a pager control in XPages. As stated in the comments I am not fan of the way it done in XPages and do it my own way. But let’s take the Pagers control as an example. Own property file In the files Read More
Basic testing of the JUnit for XPages plugin
Last week Christian Guedemann has released on OpenNTF a new project, JUnit testing for XPages, I think a missing part of the Domino Designer experience, especially with the increasing use of Java in XPages apps. So this weekend I did some basic Unit testing. Test Driven Development The last 10 month I did most of the Read More
Added Bootstrap Growl notification to an XPage application
On my current project, who I wrote several blog posts before, I was missing something, the possibility to notify users when a backend process was finished. After I read the post of Jesse Gallagher, Generating Toaster, dGrowl, etc. Notifications From Server Code, I was wondering if I can use this principle for Growl. I found a Read More
Give the XPages File download control a bootstrap UI
As I wrote before, I am developing a version 2.0 of Planning Portal app, with responsive design. My goal was to try get everything a bootstrap UI, last blog was about the File Upload control. At last the File Download Control was remaining. The display is not that bad, but I doesn’t like the remove Read More
Bootstrap UI for XPages File Upload component
On my current XPages project, I use bootstrap, as I wrote in my previous blog item. In the end I ended up with not so pretty file upload control on, so after some searching I found a very neat example. It require only an element around your file upload control, some CSS and a few lines Read More
Bootstrap datetimepicker for XPages
On my current project I use bootstrap to make the whole app responsive. For some forms I needed a date and time picker, so my first stop is Mark Leusink’s Bootstrap4XPages demo website, where I discovered a date and time picker. After some trying to get the styling right, I turned to google to find Read More
Give the view panel a Bootstrap look and feel with 1 line of code
Currently I am working on a XPages app where I make use of Bootstrap to make it responsive. For certain reasons I am not using the Bootstrap4XPages plugin. Out of the box the view panel looks very ugly in a Bootstrap UI. [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”500px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ][/dropshadowbox] So I started to Read More
JQuery text complete plugin on a XPage
This week I came across a website with a cool input box. It was possible to put in text and @mentions and #tags, which gives some drop downs to choose from. I was intrigued by the possibilities, so I started to investigating the code, and was pointed to a JQuery plugin, text complete on GitHub. Read More