Getting Started

Need help getting started with XPages? This guide provides links to overview content, videos, tutorials, and other content that will get you up to speed quickly.

This topic contains a map of the domino objects contained in XPages.

This topic contains a map of the domino objects contained in XPages.

Introduction Beginning developers often have problems figuring out how to program with multivalued fields. There are three main reasons for this: Misunderstanding the distinction between a true multivalue and delimited strings Misunderstanding the relationship between forms and the data stored ...

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The learning roadmap provides a number of resources, including demonstrations, product documentation, and education offerings, to help Notes client application developers get started with Lotus Domino Designer. Feel free to add helpful links that you find. The wiki monitors will integrate your ...

Datetime values are complicated. This document discusses these complexities and ways to deal with them. The following specific issues are covered: Storage of dates in a document. Conversion of dates to text in a view (why it's a bad idea) Other effects of differences in date formatting ...

As the name suggests the Demonstration Application for XPages is a web based IBM Lotus Domino R8.5 application used to demonstrate many aspects of the new XPages technology. Launched via a web browser, the user can navigate through the provided links menu and see how many of the XPages features ...

Question: I have an XPage viewpanel which shows documents from a view. A column is configured to show values as links. However, the links by default open the document in another XPage. How can I change the default link generated for each entry in the view panel to open the document ...

Question: Are global variables in server-side JavaScript libraries shared across the board regardless of the user/session ? Answer: Yes, global variables defined in server-side JavaScript libraries are initially indeed globally shared across sessions. However, they are not ...

Question: How can I use native html tags inside XPages? Answer: There are 3 different ways to manually use html tags in XPages: #1: You can use the Computed Field control to emit the required HTML in its value property. Make sure to set the Content type to HTML (so ...

Question: Is there an easy way to do pattern matching validation on fields such as an edit box? Answer: To enable pattern matching on an edit box: Go to the All Properties tab Click into the validators property Click the add button that appears and choose ...

h1 Question:h1 Lotus Domino 8.5 servers come preinstalled with a href"http:dojotoolkit.org" target"blank"Dojoa. The Dojo libraries are by default installed in {data}dominojsdojox.x.xdojo (where x.x.x is the dojo version, like dojo 1.1.1 for example) However, by ...

Question: By default, every XPage contains a tag in the rendered HTML markup. How can I create an XPage without default form tags inside? Also, can I manually create my own form tags in an XPage? Answer: When creating an XPage, Domino Designer automatically insert a ...

Question: How can I hide or show a button (or any other control) depending on whether the current XPage is in edit or read only mode? Answer: To determine if the current page is in edit mode, use document.isEditable() where document is the name of the object representing ...

Question: In the traditional Domino web server, CGI variables are available by creating fields with the names of such CGI variables, for example QUERY_STRING How can I easily access CGI variables in XPages? Answer: In ...

Question: XPages can be bound to forms. If I'm creating a new application with new XPages, do I also have to create matching forms? Or can I point it to fields that may or may not exist in the DB already and manually assign a type to them? Answer: Creating a form is not ...

In the Panel control style tab, choose "Disable default styles", so the HTML div is not output, but the control contents are output. Question:I'm looking for a skinless container control. That is, a container like xp:panel that supports the rendered attribute, but ...

Question: Are soft deletions supported in XPages? Answer: Soft deletions are not supported in the initial Domino 8.50 version. Support for soft deletions is under consideration for a later Domino 8.5.x version.

Question: I created an XPage with a repeat control on it. The repeat control creates multiple radio buttons. In order to connect the different radio buttons to a group they need to have the same group name. The radio group name needs to be computed in my case. The problem is that these ...

Question: Can scoped variables (variables stored in the applicationScope, sessionScope, requestScope etc.) be used to cache Notes document objects? Answer: No. A document object is created using a session that is initialized when the request comes in, and closed when the ...

Question: What is the difference between the "NotesXspDocument" and "NotesDocument" class? Answer: The XPages data sources are working with Java objects created using the regular Domino Java backend API. For this, the XPages runtime creates a Java session object for the user ...

Question: How can I disable the "autocomplete" feature in browsers for input fields? Answer: To disable the browser's own dropdown list for input text controls, set the "autocomplete" property (in "All Properties") to "off". {code:} <xp:inputText id="inputText1" ...

Question: What gets automatically added to a property file for translation? I'm guessing a label text would make it. What if you just typed text in directly without using a label control? Will that make it into a properties file? Answer: Yes, the text you typed in would go into a .properties file. ...