This is not a technical question, but rather an inquiry on how to get better information regarding the huge numbr of parameters and properties of the various controls you can put in an XPage.
A concrete example:
I have a button which had a property save=true in its event Handler. I added some code in the postSave event, so a lotuscript angent could do some processing, and I started having save conflicts. It took a while but I managed to figure out that the save=true in the event Handler was causing the issue.
I like to know my options, so I wanted to look at what exactly that property ws doing (although the name kinds of give it), but that's when it hit me: where do I look for that kind of information?
Is there a site somewhere that lists all properties we can add and a description of what they are doing?
Maybe my Google skills are not the best, but I couldn't find anything yet...
The three IBM Press XPages books (Mastering XPages 2nd Edition, XPages Portable Command Guide and XPages Extension Library) are key to understanding the implications of the properties. There are the equivalent of Javadocs for controls (here's the link for the XPages Extension Library one), but they're not intended to go into the kind of depth to identify the problem you hit.
These might be useful:
http://xpageswiki.com/
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVRGU_9.0.1/com.ibm.designer.domino.ui.doc/wpd_controls_cref.html
Howard
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I need to track which detail pages are opened and how often in result sets.
To do my own logging, I would need to send a javascript put command when the user opens the detail page.
How can I do that?
This is not possible right now in a straightforward way.
If you're feeling adventurous, you can try using lazy-source:
https://bixbydevelopers.com/dev/docs/reference/type/structure.property.lazy-source
Make sure that only the details view of your concept is using the lazy-property, so it isn't loaded on the list-of summaries, since as stated in the docs,
Bixby calls the lazy source when the property is referenced either in a layout or dialog.
I am new to Lotus notes. Till now I am able to add data from XPage to the document and display it into a view. Now I want to display data into the fields on a XPage. Please suggest me how to do that And any good tutorial that suggest step by step development of an application on Notes.
In your custom control, bind the control to a document, drag a field (like a text field or computed field), and one of the panes will let you bind it to a field on the document.
There is a lot to this, you can look at Declan Lynch's blog posts (a bit old, but a great start) http://www.qtzar.com/learning-xpages/
You may want to pay for a class, I've taken some from TLCC and they are great: https://www.tlcc.com/ (I am not associated with TLCC, just a happy customer).
I know links out are not the greatest here, but part of this question was to point to tutorials.
There are many hours of free video tips and tutorials on XPages over at the NotesIn9 Screencast. notesin9.com. Since the blog makes it difficult to find older shows, which still have value I have them indexed at XPages.TV as well. There's also a site at XPagesCheatSheet.com with some intro cheatsheets.
Also you can use Mastering XPages book.
I have a basic knockoutjs project loading data from a SharePoint 2013 list scenario. Getting data and displaying data is easy, the problem that I'm running into is on the edit mode displaying the proper control. Everything should not be a textbox. This means the people picker control to dropdownmenus to calendar controls.
MSFT has some pretty good documentation on using the client side people picker control here"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj713593.aspx
The problem that I have is calling this control inside my viewmodel.
Setting the value of the control doesn't look difficult courtesy of this blog post: http://www.sharepointcolumn.com/sp2013-setting-people-picker-value-in-newform-aspx/
I attempted to looking into computed values, but that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have a blog post that I skipped over? The closest related post that I can find: http://yetanothersharepointblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/working-with-sharepoint-lookup-columns-in-knockout-js/
Lastly since it seems that I'm the only one doing this, does anyone think that I should not be reinventing the wheel with my forms and should just link each item to the appropriate SharePoint list item in edit or display view? I suppose that would be easier.
From a SharePoint Professional to another, I would highly recommend you to do that.
Just redirect the user to the item edit/display item page an let SharePoint take the leash of how to handle UI form elements.
Because, assume that you implement your custom form, what if the user decides to add one more site column to the list? Will you update your code to support another field?
From my personal experience with the beast I've come to the conclusion that structural implementation over already existent functionality tends to go wrong.
Also, if you have some kind of listing of items custom made and you want to provide editing, try to do something opening a pretty SP.UI.ModalDialog, its elegant and you use the sharepoint to do the work for you.
But it's just an advise.
One of the coolest features I've seen in help viewers is the ability to hide inherited members so you can focus on only what that particular subclass offers. A good example of this is here...
http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json/help/html/T_Newtonsoft_Json_JsonConvert.htm
Actually, that page has various options for how to show the help, not just hiding inherited members.
Now online MSDN has a habit of just throwing everything under the sun at you meaning trying to figure out what a subclass has added, let alone getting to it requires tons of scanning and even more scrolling.
That said, is there any way, local or online, to enable those or similar features? Has anyone made an external or third-party help viewer that does this or something similar?
(Note: I'm not really sure if this is for SO since it's not a programming thing, but it is sort of an IDE-related thing so I figured I'd gamble and put it here.)
Mark
Hiding inherited items is one thing I used to miss in the Lightweight style online MSDN docs.
Fortunately, it can be easily solved by using a litte bit of in browser javascript. See How to hide inherited members on MSDN pages for details.
You should be able to expand the used principle to hide any information you need (eg. you could use the icons to tell apart the static members, methods, properties and so on...).
Updated answer for 2016:
Create a bookmark in a modern browser with the following javascript snippet as the URL:
javascript:var trs=document.getElementsByTagName('tr');var l=trs.length;for (var i=0; i<l; i++) { var tr=trs[i]; if (tr.innerHTML.indexOf('(Inherited from ')>-1) tr.style.display=tr.style.display=='none'?'':'none'; }; void(0);
Clicking this bookmark while on an MSDN class documentation page will toggle all the inherited members on and off.
The javascript is just looking through all of the table rows ('tr') on the page, finding any which contain the string '(Inherited from ', and setting their display style (visibility) to 'none'. That search string seems to cover every instance of a member being inherited.
I have a wss 3.0 install which needs an "anonymous" discussion board. I can modify the view so no usernames are displayed, however when I click on "reply", the message I'm replying to shows up in the rich text box with the username of the previous poster.
Is there a way to remove that username? or Remove the previous posted text altogether? I've found the schema.xml file with lots of relevant info under the ..12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\DiscussionsList\Discuss folder, but not sure if this is the easiest way to adjust this setting.
Any comments appreciated.
Best practice says that you should always create a custom list definition instead of trying to modify the OOB assets.
The easiest way to do this is take a copy of the 12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\DiscussionsList\Discuss folder, modify the feature Ids and names so that its unique. Then your free to change the schema render template (i.e view schema) and modify the edit and display forms.
If you need to modfify the actual entry form you may consider a custom control template : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543922.aspx
Custom list definition : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms466023.aspx
Agrothe,
I have a similar requirement (hide or mask the author inside the reply thread.). What exactly inside of schema.xml do you think will allow you to do accomplish that?
Not sure if the list forms are exposed to xslt. If so, then perhaps this is another approach.
FWIW, the other solutions I have investigated:
(1) A custom event handler. Unfortunately, I can't pinpoint which event fires when someone click reply.
(2) Anonymous blog comments (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/08/06/anonymous-comment-feature-for-sharepoint-blog-now-available-on-codeplex.aspx).
(3) the other thing I am considering, is to introduce a global anonymous active directory login, which users can use to post anonymously. Not ideal, but for the amount of time I have spent researching a solution, might be my last hope.