Submitted by Jérôme Deniau on Jan 22, 2010 2:30:50 PM

Introduction to Redbooks Wiki for Domino 8.5.1 Web Application Development

Thanks Robert, We should have stressed on that.

First it was to keep it simple for new Lotus-Notes Designer.

Second I also add it because during the very first beginning I did have an internal form data binding information duplication, and the only way round I found was to use scanEZ from Ytria to remove the duplicate information. And I did not had time to investigate that.

Thanks for your comment.

Submitted by Robert Shaver on Jan 18, 2010 5:27:52 PM

Introduction to Redbooks Wiki for Domino 8.5.1 Web Application Development

Nice work everybody.

In reference to this text:

"Note - An important detail is the checkbox Add data source to the page. This selection is new for common Lotus Notes designers. We advise you not to select this option in the very beginning of an XPage design process. Instead, when you become more accustomed to XPages development you will probably wish to check this option. What does that mean? Basically an XPage can live on its own (a main page for instance), but in most cases you will use XPages to allow people to have inputs, to show portions of Domino views, and much more. Accordingly, checking this option will allow you to define the source of the data you want to manipulate."

This note "advise you not to select this option in the very beginning". Then it goes on to say that it "will allow you to define the source of the data you want to manipulate."

So your advice is to NOT be able to define the source of the data for the design. Is that correct? Then my question naturally follows, "what is defining the source of the data?

I'm guessing, I can't be sure, but I think this note tried to explain the purpose of the check box with too little data. If your purpose is to keep the early exploratory work with XPages simple, then simply say don't check the box at first and let it go at that. The other alternative is to put a link to a full explanation of what this check box is really about so I can make the choice myself.