Author: David Leedy

Well I screwed up yesterday… spent WAY too long on something in XPages because I still suffer from “Classic Notes Muscle Memory”. So I just thought I’d mention this in case someone else ever does this maybe they’re catch it quicker.

In XPages you can separate your code application from your data storage databases very nicely. This is something you really can’t do in notes client development and I find myself seperating logic and date quite often. In this example I have a NSF file with code needed for an iPad Mobile web application. But all the data is in a different database. Separating your code from your data is really seamless and nice to work with. This isn’t a big deal at all, until you get so into the coding that you actually forget where your data is.

I spent way to long yesterday on a piece of code in Java that was supposed to save a document. It was right, I knew it was right but it just didn’t work. Probably every XPager knows that feeling.

Anyway it turns out that it worked fine, but I was simply saving it to the CURRENT database rather then the data database that I needed to. OPPS!! I just completely forgot about the separation.

So the moral of the story is always know where you’re data is supposed to go. 🙂

This really isn’t ready, and I didn’t intend to publish it today, because it’s UGLY, but it looks like someone on the XPages Forum could use it so what the heck.

I’ve been working on an Online “CheatSheet” to help with working with URL’s in XPages. Basically how do you get the value you might need or are looking for.

Again this is rough, and I’m FAR from an expert at this stuff so I’ll just ask if people have particular code snippets for this kinda thing, please let me know and I’ll update this page.

here it is:

XPages URL CheatSheet – (Early Draft)