In this show NotesIn9 not only gets a SUPER new contributor, but it also gets it’s first Nerd Girl! In today’s show Kathy Brown comes on to do a demo on using the XPages Mobile controls from the Extension Library / Update Pack 1. These controls are also built into Domino 9.0.
In the demo she uses Designer to show you how to get started building a mobile app with the XPages Mobile Controls.
I hope you like it.
In this show Peter Presnell returns to conclude his 3 part series on XPages Mobile Controls. Today he’ll cover outlines and Data Views.
I also talk about the current OpenNTF.org Appathon Contest. There’s a lot of prize money available so be sure to check that out as well.
Peter Presnell comes back today with Part 2 of his series on XPages Mobile controls. In this show he’ll go through all the current controls provided with Ext. Library / UpdatePack / Designer 9 and define what they are and go through their key properties.
NotesIn9 is back!! Yay!
In today’s show, Peter Presnell, a past contributor comes on to start a 3 part series on Mobile controls. In Part 1 he will give us a very basic introduction to the concepts around the mobile controls. In Part 2 he’ll go through each design element.
Last week NotesIn9 had a problem where it was redirecting to some weird website and shortly after got flagged by Google as a site delivering Malware.
I had no idea until Sean Cull sent me a note asking if there was a problem. Yep there was! And what a problem it was. Eventually I had to redirect the site to a quick temp page for the time being.
This happened the day before a trip to Orlando for the day job and I think the day IamLug started. Not great timing.
My odds at fixing this problem myself were nil. So I turned to Chris Miller from idonotes.com. Chris is possibly the longest supporter of NotesIn9. He and his Spiked Studio Productions have hosted my Ni9 WordPress blog for several years now. I truly appreciate that as I pretty much stink at WordPress.
Chris is also the key organizer behind IamLug so with that going on and me traveling this hit at the worst possible time.
From what Chris told me, code got injected via an old embedded flash player on one of my posts. Ouch!
I want to thank Chris for his efforts in getting this fixed as soon as he did. I really appreciate it.
All should be fine now. If there are any problems please let me know.
Thanks for watching!
Now that my traveling is done for hopefully a while, I hope to get some long overdue shows out next week so please, stay tuned!
Ok, so I recently blogged about a problem getting jQuery Mobile working with XPages in Domino 9.0. There was a lot of good idea’s and comments on that and I appreciated them all very much. It turns out the best solution was provided by Sven Hasselbach with this post.
Now I already starting going down the Twitter Bootstrap path, which I was really liking, but I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile. And when I say “I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile” what I mean is that Declan Lynch wanted to take a look at jQuery Mobile and drug me back kicking and screaming. haha
So anyway, in no short order Declan had mobilized an internal app and I was playing with footers which can’t easily be done with XPages Mobile controls and working on a custom control for the header, content, and footer. Just trying to get a feel for it really.
The first thing I really tried to do was get a feel for how viewScope might work. Unlike Mobile Controls, where you work with Virtual pages, jQuery Mobile lets you work with real XPages. I like that so much better! Anyway, the first thing I tried to do is just put a computed field bound to viewScope and a button to update viewScope with the current time. Now the button is a normal XPages core control and I just wanted to do a partial refresh.
Clicking the button did nothing. Tried partial refresh, tried full refresh. Nothing worked. I didn’t even see any traffic from the browser.
I did some poking around for an answer, but not a lot. So I thought I’d just post out here looking for some overall getting started advice. I liked what I saw of jQuery Mobile but I want to keep Dojo working so I can use XPages controls.
Anyone have any getting started advice?
A couple days ago, Stephan Wissel, created a “Mind Map” on what might be involved for an XPages Project. I thought that was pretty cool.
Around the same time I discovered this XPages community on Google+. I highly recommend checking that out and I’ll be talking about it more on future shows. One of the moderators of that community is Rob Bontekoe. I’ve talked to him a couple times since joining that community and he’s a really great guy. He provides a 4 day XPages training course that can be given remotely or on your location. As a supplement to that course he’s created some FREE courses on Java, Managed beans and even some neat videos on other topics like the repeat control and JSF LifeCycle. Just some really amazing content from an original IBM Champion. I had no idea about this material.
Now I’m not going to link to everything he’s done because for one thing I don’t have that kind of time and for another he’s already done it and more I believe. Using the Mind Map website, Rob has created this really really cool “Map” of XPages learning resources. It’s been on the Google+ Community for a while, (see what you’re missing!), but I wanted to blog about it in case you missed it.
Now, I personally know a good idea when I see one. And one of my biggest problems with Ni9 is a lack of a good index / table of contents. So I took a little time to try and create a Map for NotesIn9.
So please check that out. Let me know what you think and if you like it or not. If it’s helpful or not. I think it might be but I’m not sure. I’m really worried that I won’t be able to keep up with it as new shows come out. So I thought about not publishing it but then thought, well I already did this much. So I don’t know if I can keep up with it. If people think it’s helpful I’ll at least give it a try. If there are any volunteers that would like to keep this updated for me and maybe prettying it up a little bit I would welcome the help.
Thanks!
This show starts my attempt at a little “XPages Mobile Madness”. This is a new event for NotesIn9. All it really means is I’m going to make a concerted effort to get a bunch of Mobile focused shows on. I only have so many in my back pocket so I’m looking for help!
In today’s show I get another amazing contributor. Richard Sharpe of Teamstudio comes on and shows us how to select multiple documents from a repeat control inside an XPages Mobile Controls Application. Great stuff!
Note: I did a similar show to this way way back in NotesIn9 25. In that show I demo’s how to select items in a repeat for a “Normal” XPages application. So if interested in this for a NON mobile solution then you might want to check that out. http://notesin9.com/index.php/2011/04/01/notesin9-025-selecting-documents-from-a-repeat-control/
So it’s no secret that I’m doing a lot of XPages Web Development for iPads and I have a complete love – hate relationship with XPages Mobile controls. In some ways they’re great. In some ways they are not so great at all. Not all of that is XPages fault – though some is – but some of the problem is in the Dojo that drives the mobile controls.
So I really want to abandon Mobile Controls, if nothing else the whole single page App is just really really hard to debug. If you navigate to a page you can’t EASILY view source for instance. You need to catch it with a tool like firebug.
Anyway, so I found this project that I really wanted to use. https://github.com/commadelimited/jQuery-Mobile-Bootstrap-Theme
In theory it’s a marriage of Twitter Bootstrap and a css “theme” that makes some elements look like you would on a mobile device. Ideally I’d love to have the mobile look and feel since I think it’s easier for the users then a glorified web page, but I’m desperate to get to normal XPages and away from these virtual pages. Even if the fancy transitions are lost I don’t really care any more.
So it seems it’s not just a CSS framework like I thought but it does require jQuery Mobile. Ok – I gave it a try and guess what. It didn’t work. not at all. The mobile goodies would NOT render!
Until I completely disabled Dojo!
Disabling Dojo is not an option for me. I just can’t hand code all that stuff. It’s not going to happen. I’m going to be using XPages I want to USE XPages. But why didn’t it work? Well I had to turn to the jQuery Master himself – Mark Roden. He took a look at it for me which I greatly appreaciated!
We’re not sure, but we think there’s a conflict between Dojo and jQuery Mobile with the “data-role” attribute. I guess both frameworks make use of that and Dojo 1.8 grabs it first and shuts jQuery out. If I downgraded Dojo I BELIEVE it would work but that’s not an option for me.=
Apparantly I’m not the only one with this problem.
That’s what I think I know at least. If anyone knows something else please chime in!
Personally I’m not sure what to do. XPages Mobile controls are difficult and missing things like a bottom TabBar, though I believe the redPill company has solved that problem. I believe Kendo UI uses virtual pages as well. JQuery Mobile seems like you need to drop Dojo.
I think I might try the Twitter Bootstrap 3 Release Candidate. Not really sure though.
Kinda annoying actually…
This is a rush show. I didn’t mean to make this show at this time, but it looks like I solved a problem that has been frustrating me for a while so I had to take a quick break and document it and get this out.
The problem is with trying to do a refresh in the onChange event of an edit control in the confines of XPages Mobile Controls. I’ve done this before in a production app, but recently I tried making a new version of that app, starting from scratch, and I couldn’t get the same behavior.
Really really frustrating stuff.
Hopefully, if you’re working with Mobile controls this will help you.