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OpenNTF is devoted to enabling groups of individuals all over the world to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source.

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Reference Validation for Domino Designer

Niklas Heidloff | 5:05:15 AM Monday, March 15, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Yi BJ Guo has contributed another plugin to OpenNTF. This plugin shows how to extend Lotus Domino Designer to check for valid references for XPages and custom controls.

Here is the link to the project, here the documentation and here the direct download link.

Ulrich Krause: Get the most out of Lotusscript - Richtext under the Microscope

Ulrich Krause | 12:30:25 AM Friday, March 12, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

The project Cebulon is some kind of a sandbox to try (and sometimes fail) advanced techniques to use the C-API core functions of Lotus Notes and Domino from Lotusscript. There are a lot of code snippets you can find on the web to open a file dialog or to show a progressbar and so on. But did you ever try to change the settings of a document header or footer in the background using an agent? Not an easy one, is it? The $Header / $Footer items are RichText items and you cannot simply use ReplaceItemValue to modify the content.

What Developers at Entwicklercamp think about OpenNTF

Niklas Heidloff | 12:46:27 AM Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Earlier this week I asked some developers at Entwicklercamp what they think about OpenNTF.

OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - Feb 23, 2010

Scott Johnsen | 4:36:03 PM Monday, March 8, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

OpenNTF Steering Committee Meeting February 23rd, 2010

New List of OpenNTF Members from Bruce Lill

Niklas Heidloff | 12:38:23 AM Monday, March 8, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Bruce Lill has implemented a new page on OpenNTF with a list of the OpenNTF members - see here.

This page has been live for several weeks. We keep adding logos and descriptions. There is also room for more members :). See here for more information about membership.

OpenNTF at Entwicklercamp

Niklas Heidloff | 12:33:54 AM Friday, March 5, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

I will attend Entwicklercamp in Germany next week and will have two sessions:

1. Introduction of OpenNTF projects: Discussion next gen, XPages framework and some Dojo projects
2. Closing session: More than 20 short demos of new OpenNTF projects

Looking forward to meeting many Notes/Domino developers there.

Featured OpenNTF Project of the Month: xTalk

Bruce Elgort | 12:11:01 AM Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

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The xTalk discussion forum application is a 100% XPages application written for IBM Lotus Notes And Domino 8.5.1 utilizing XPages in the Notes Client and was developed by Declan Lynch.

Styled after many of the popular PHP web forums, xTalk brings the power of web forums to your Domino environment is an easy to deploy and configure application. Using XPages in the Notes client users will experience the same interface no mater how they view it.

Build your first iPhone App in five Minutes via XPages and iUI

Niklas Heidloff | 11:21:25 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

We've published a mini framework to build your first webkit based app for smartphones via XPages and iUI in five minutes.

You can download the release from here and report defects and feature requests here.

In this video I show how to build an iPhone app for the OpenNTF XPages Wiki project in less than five minutes. The wiki is not the best sample (since it converts wiki markup to HTML) but it shows the base concepts.

New Version of OpenNTF Mobile and iUI Teaser

Niklas Heidloff | 12:06:22 AM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

We've updated the mobile web site with the ability to navigate to more blog entries than just the last 10 via a 'more' button.

You can download the code here and go to the project to post defects and requests. For both view paging and to open documents Ajax is used so that no browser refresh/flickering occurs. The view paging has been implemented via HTTP requests (http://.../All?ReadViewEntries&Start=5&Count=5&OutputFormat=JSON).

3D History Thumbnail Viewer for Lotus Notes

Niklas Heidloff | 3:03:17 AM Monday, March 1, 2010 | Full Story and Comments

Hiroyuki Okamoto has contributed a 3d history viewer for IBM Lotus Notes. You can download this plugin from here.

You can start 3D History Thumbnail Viewer by pressing History toolbar button or by selecting menu Tools -> History.

Left key: move left.
Right key: move right.
Up key: switch display mode. (currently supports “slide” and “stack” display mode.
ESC key: switch between normal screen mode and full screen mode.
Enter key: Switch to the selected application tab.



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