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Import Controls from OpenNTF Catalog via Domino Designer

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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:


This is only the first version of this tool. The main thing we'd like to improve is to make this capability more visible in the Domino Designer user interface (e.g. toolbar icon). We have some more ideas but your feedback is welcome.

You can install the tool from the catalog via drag and drop.

Posted by Niklas Heidloff On 02/01/2010 |

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Gravatar Image1 - 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

Posted by Adam Brown At 12:33:51 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Nice,thx

Posted by Thomas Adrian At 12:44:55 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - 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.

Posted by Niklas Heidloff At 01:44:15 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - Very nice and usefull!

Posted by Fredrik Stöckel At 04:45:21 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image5 - Great contribution Steve. I see this as an important part to making the link between openNTF and ALL Notes developers.

Posted by Peter Presnell At 08:19:09 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image6 - Did I say Steve? Oops... Sorry Niklas.

Posted by Peter Presnell At 08:20:15 AM On 02/02/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image7 - 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.

Posted by Erik Brooks At 10:29:56 PM On 02/16/2010 | - Website - |


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