Working With Character Sets and Domino
All web pages use Character Sets to display the text they contain. Domino uses different character sets depending on what kind of page you're looking at. This can cause problems when we're creating forms of our own. This article describes how to combat the issue and acts as a primer to the topic of charsets and Domino....10 Mar 2005 | Keywords: character set, utf-8, us-ascii, encoding, charset | Category: Forms | Read »
Searching Domino Simplified
More often than not Domino database have search boxes on all their pages. How does your work? Does it work if you disable JavaScript? Does it work when documents are in edit mode? What if the user pressed enter instead of the search button? If any of these are issues for you then this article will solve them all....24 Jan 2005 | Keywords: search | Category: Miscellaneous | Read »
Sensible Web Navigation
Both users and search engines can be baffled by Domino's navigation links. The only thing we can do to solve this is create the links ourselves. This document shows how to create links to get through pages in a view and through the documents contained within it....8 Nov 2004 | Keywords: Navigation | Category: Forms | Read »
Domino Rich Text In The Browser, Advanced
This article takes a closer look at using the HTMLArea WYSIWYG editor with Domino. The first article in the series looked at how to install the editor. Now we start looking at how to configure and extend its features....6 Oct 2004 | Keywords: rich text | Category: Forms | Read »
Domino Rich Text In The Browser
Finally we have a way of editing and storing Rich Text as HTML. Hence, we are no longer requried to use the Domino Java applets. This article describes how to use an alternative editor in our web pages....12 Jul 2004 | Keywords: rich text, editor applet, wysiwyg | Category: Forms | Read »
Server-Side Error Validation
Whether you like it or not, it's easy for a user to bypass your JavaScript data validation on the web. This article describes an alternative which will keep the hackers at bay....28 Jun 2004 | Keywords: error, server-side, validation | Category: Forms | Read »
Making Domino Behave Relationally, Part 2
Having looked at a way to generate a list of related articles in a document we now look at how to maintain the list in edit mode. Includes an example database for download....31 May 2004 | Keywords: popup, dialog, modal | Category: JavaScript | Read »
Making Domino Behave Relationally
See how we can use some of the powerful new features of Domino 6's formula language to mimic relational data and create a list of "related article" links....26 Apr 2004 | Keywords: relational, for, loop, dblookup | Category: Forms | Read »
Towards the Perfect Web View
Large Notes Views on the web can be slow and cumbersome. This article explains how to make them as light as possible, as well as adding extra functionality, such as export to Excel and sortable columns....11 Mar 2004 | Keywords: Views, lightweight, export, excel, sortable, columns | Category: Views | Read »
Notes Thread Navigation With DHTML
Ever wanted a nicer way to show discussion threads on a form? Wanted to write your own DHTML navigation tree but not had the time? This is what you're looking for!...19 Feb 2004 | Keywords: response, hierarchy, discussion, thread, tree | Category: JavaScript | Read »
