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Import Controls from OpenNTF Catalog via Domino Designer

Posted by Niklas Heidloff | February 1, 2010


As mentioned in a previous blog entry we want to push the concept of reusable controls. A resuable control is a list of arbitrary design elements that are compilable, it contains simple unit tests and can easily be used in custom apps.

Yi Guo who has done all Eclipse programming and Stephan Wissel have provided a new tool that allows importing controls from the OpenNTF catalog directly into your Domino app via Domino Designer. The tool has been implemented similar to other Eclipse based import features. A wizard allows selecting a control from the catalog via the embedded browser displaying a lightweight catalog user interface that I've provided.

This video describes the functionality:

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 Adam Brown commented on Feb 2, 2010 12:33:51 AM

Hi Niklas,

This is excellent news. This will add true value from OpenNTF and should encourage the adoption of the various re-usable controls.

When users download a control using the Designer plugin does it increment the number of downloads for the control on OpenNTF?

Adam

 Thomas Adrian commented on Feb 2, 2010 12:44:55 AM

Nice,thx

 Niklas Heidloff commented on Feb 2, 2010 1:44:15 AM

Adam, yes the download counters of the projects are increased. But the counters in the catalogs are still broken. Need to fix this. Need to update them with real numbers from projects.

 Fredrik Stöckel commented on Feb 2, 2010 4:45:21 AM

Very nice and usefull!

 Peter Presnell commented on Feb 2, 2010 8:19:09 AM

Great contribution Steve. I see this as an important part to making the link between openNTF and ALL Notes developers.

 Peter Presnell commented on Feb 2, 2010 8:20:15 AM

Did I say Steve? Oops... Sorry Niklas.

 Erik Brooks commented on Feb 16, 2010 10:29:56 PM

Wow, just saw this - somehow I missed it a couple of weeks ago.

Awesome, awesome. Needs to become a formally-integrated part of DDE, but: awesome.

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