dojo.byId(“#{id:idOfMyComponent}”);

I googled a bit but was not able to find a solution for this problem. There are many hints but you need to bring them together to get the result. Here is the code that finally worked for me:

var idOfElementToSetValueTo= ”;
var idOfElementToCallPartialRefreshOn= ”;
dojo.query(“[id$=\\:elementID]“).forEach(function(node, index, arr){
                         idOfElementToSetValueTo = node.id;                           
                   });;
dojo.query(“[id$=\\:refreshID]“).forEach(function(node, index, arr){
                    idOfElementToCallPartialRefreshOn= node.id;                           
                   });;
 dojo.byId(idOfElementToSetValueTo).value=strFilterVal;
XSP.partialRefreshPost(idOfElementToCallPartialRefreshOn,{});

The only downside is that if there are more components on the page all ending with the same “:id”, the function provided will only return the last element. You might want to extend the function to suit your needs then.

Hope this helps!

I want to thank Niklas Heidloff and Bruce Elgort who gave me the chance to join their team this year and represent OpenNTF at Lotusphere.You have to save a spot on your schedule this year to visit the Product Showcase. Mark booth 516 on your map! Come by and learn all about OpenNTF. Anything you ever wanted to know about OpenNTF? Fire your question at us, we’ll be more than glad to help. Have you ever wondered

• who or what OpenNTF is?
• who steers OpenNTF?
• who funds OpenNTF?
• how you can join in to enrich the community?
• how to submit your project to OpenNTF?
• how to get in contact with OpenNTF?
• which licenses are available to open source your project?
• …

If you do not have any questions but want to meet great people for a quick chat, you are also very welcome.

Personal note: This is to everyone out there who I had not met in person yet: Come to booth 516 and say Hello! I know so many people from all those social networks which I haven’t actually seen in my life yet. If I don’t say Hi on an occasion outside the Product Showcase I’d like you to say Hi at booth 516.

Catch you around!

So I sat down and checked the possibilities to make the app run on smartphones. There’s DOJO and the Mobile Controls integrated in the Extension Library 8.5.3. I took my first shot and had a mobile application together which pretty much has the same functionality as the web app in no time.

Then I checked jQuery Mobile which seems to be used by most of the developers out there. I toyed around with it for a while and put together an app based on jQuery Mobile that provides the same functionality as the web app – awesome! I named it hedersoft tweet v1.1 and uploaded it to openNTF.

UPDATE: Niklas created a new video showing the controls in action. Watch it on XPages.info or download it from the contest page.

Here are a few screenshots.

There are properties that can be set in the xsp.properies file. First of all you have to find and access the file. Well, those of you out there working with XPages every day, proceed to the next paragraph. All others: Open the database in Domino Designer. Switch to the Java Perspective via the menu “Window\Open Perspective\Java” and in the outline move to the “WebContent\WEB-INF” folder.

Open the “xsp.properties” file by double-clicking on it. Move to the “Source” Tab. Use the following snippet to define your styles (Click on the image to get to the snippet):

Ok, it’s easy, isn’t it. Just use a Multiline Editbox control, bind that to your multi value field on the form and put a new value in every line of the box, right? This only works halfway since the contents of the field are being saved as a text string with hidden chars to get the line breaks. To separate the values you have to tell the Multivalue Editbox how to do it. Open the “All Properties” Tab of the control and in the basic section navigate to the “multipleSeparator” property as shown in the screenshot below. Compute a javascript value using the little blue diamond end enter “\n” (with quotation marks). Save the XPages. Now your values get saved as multiple values.

Anyway, hedersoft as an IBM Business Partner focusses on XPages. We will make basic applications and modules available as OpenSource and publish them on OpenNTF. Lars Buntrock started with his “Database Open Dialog” and I uploaded “hedersoft tweet” just yesterday. This application consists of 5 custom controls, each of which can be used seperately or together as a basic twitter application. These controls are:

• OAuth authentication control
• “All Friends” stream
• “Mentions” stream (@Replies)
• “Direct Messages” stream
• Status Update control

Wired together it looks like this:

We nominated the twitter controls for the 2. XPages Development Contest. Feel free to download the controls and play around. They are OpenSource released under Apache Licence v2.0. If you have any feature requests or defect reports then please post them on the project page on OpenNTF.

I am writing java code in my domino database using the Java Perspective. I created a source folder under WebContent\WEB-INF and added the folder to my build path. I am using the classes and methods I coded on my XPages and they work. Now I need to code a java agent that is supposed to run every night. A lot of the methods and classes I need for my agent are already in my source folder, so I want to access the code. But there seems to be no way to import the code into my agent, is there?

I can import sources from my file system or jar files. I can import java libraries. I can import resources from my file system, but I can not add my project source folder to the agent. Switching over to the Java Perspective and opening the agent opens a new project in my Package Explorer showing the agent and all its properties. I can now add my database project to my agent project and add the source folder to it. When I build the agent project everything is fine. After I close the agent the agent project is gone and with it my settings. The same errors reappear.

Is there a way to add my sources to my agent except for copying the classes an methods to a java library and use the library in my agent? I don’t want to have source code redundant. I am kind of stuck here and need a hint or at least someone telling me that there’s no way to get what I want.

Thanks!

Who is hedersoft?

hedersoft is a new company located in Salzkotten, Germany which provides services and sells products based on Lotus Notes / Domino. The company was founded in August 2011 by Lars Buntrock an myself (Henning Schmidt) and focusses on XPages. That is products based on XPages as well as services based on this exciting technology.

Both Lars and I worked for We4IT (sponsor of the XPages Dev Contest) until we resigned in August. We felt it was about time to stand on our own feet and hence decided to found our own business. We are very dedicated to the OpenSource community and will upload lots of stuff to OpenNTF. Lars already did so by handing in his Database Open Dialog to the XPages Dev Contest in August.

So, there is lots to expext in the upcoming months. We have just started and have so many ideas that are only waiting to get processed. One of thoses is getting our homepage translated which definitely couldn’t be done in the last couple of days. So stay tuned and stop by every now and then to see how the business evolves.

Well, Domino does not provide a feature to help me out there. I got stuck and asked Daddy Google what to do. He answered: “Try POP3Collect“!

As usual, I did what Google told me to and guess what: This tool rocks! Once the very easy setup was done and the Java Task was started POP3Collect grabbed all mails and send them via SMTP to the receivers on my Domino server. And what’s even better: This tool does not cost a dime!

Thank you Andy Brunner, thanks ABData!

1.  Ferry Kranenburg for his Multi Database Search Control
2. Dennis Chen for his ZK Spreadsheet for XPages 
3. Rami Muurimaki for his XPages PDF Exporter Custom Control 

Congratulations to all of you and enjoy your iPads!

I reckon the contest can be regarded as a big success. I enjoyed a nice night before the contest started on which Niklas told me about the contest and what he expected from it. He said that if 10 controls will be submitted the contest is a big success. Well let’s check the numbers: We have 54 custom controls and 10 library controls. That’s 64 controls! That is 6.5 times more than expected. I assumes that Niklas spread numbers that were agreed on in the steering committee. So to OpenNTF: Congratulations as well!

Now, let’s talk about the controls themselves. 64 controls are awesome, but what kind of controls are we talking about? There were all kinds of controls! We have very simple ones like the Daily Dilbert Control by Ulrich Krause or the Stop Watch Control by Rolf Kremer just to name two. On the other hand there are very sophisticated controls like the three winners or the Select Database Control by Lars Buntrock and the View PickList Control by Mark Hughes. There are many more so please do not blame me if you are not mentioned here.

Now that the contest is over and the winners have been named I think the goal of the contest has been too broad. The variety of the controls is so big that comparison between the controls is not possible in all cases. The next contest should have a challenge more narrow like “Provide custom controls which implement Lotus Notes functions” or “Provide custom controls which implemet interfaces to Third Party products”. It has to be narrowed down to make it more compareable and judgeable.

Anyway, I personally expected Mark Hughes’ View PickList Control among the last three. Why? Because it has an immediate business impact and everybody needs it. But don’t get me wrong: I do not want to kick one of the winners from the podium, the y definitely deserved to win. It’s just that if I had the chance to vote Mark would have definitely got an iPad.

So, after the contest is before the contest, isn’t it? The community is the biggest winner anyway and benefits from all those controls handed in. So please let many more contests follow.