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My First NotesIn9 Episode
My first NotesIn9 episode has been posted: Jailbreak Your XPages View Columns In the episode, I talk about several ways to enhance the output of columns in a view panel, which, by default, just...
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Reading a Custom Control Property Into Client-Side JavaScript
There are times when it’s helpful to get information from server-side JavaScript into client-side JavaScript. I find this most frequently when I have a custom control that uses a client-side library...
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XPages Tip: Accessing a custom control’s custom property from outside of the...
If you’ve used custom properties, then you’re aware that the compositeData object provides access to those properties within the custom control. However, you can also access those properties from...
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Interesting Quirk with Custom Property Names
I came across an interesting quirk when defining custom properties within a custom control — there are some names that cannot be used. While working on a reusable control for charting functionality, I...
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MWLUG Slides – AD114 Take Your XPages Development to the Next Level
In this session at MWLUG 2015, Paul Calhoun and I dug into a number of features already available in XPages, but not as widely used. We only had time to cover half of the sections, but the full set of...
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XPages Tip: Reading Custom Properties and Modifying a Component Before a Page...
If you need to read a property on a custom control and do something to any component on the page before a page loads, it can get tricky because the compositeData object is not available in the...
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XPages Tip: Passing an Array to a Custom Control Property
Custom properties are extremely useful for modular design and reuse by sending custom values into each instance. There are a number of data types that can be selected, but no obvious way to pass an...
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