Think if Lotus Notes and Symphony worked like this

You could store templates inside a nsf and use them using a special richtext light type.

Or if there existed a special xpage control for this. Thighter integration between lotus notes and Symphony is needed to get a larger customer base.

Mailto links with attachments

I tried this several times but with no luck.

the ordinary syntax for mailto links is like a ordinary url

first parameter starts with a ? next parameter and so with & nothing complicated here

mailto:emailadress

creates a new email with the default client

mailto:emailadress?subject=My email

Created a new email and the subject is my Email

mailto:emailadress?subject=My email&body=some text

Same as above but with "some text" in the body field

mailto:emailadress?subject=My email&body=some text&attach=c:\tempfile.txt

Same as above but you will also automatic attach the file tempfile.txt

most of the examples that is shown on the net is for outlook and they use another parameter name &attachments= this doesn't work with Lotus Notes

You can also use cc and bcc to add people in these fields automatically.

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The return of the Notes Workspace, thanks Apple

I had a discussion with a colleague about the simillarity of the Notes workspace and the IPhone / IPad homescreen layout.

If the Notes clients icons would be over the hole icon instead of at the top left corner, and you would add some shading and glossy by it self to the image.

If the background of the workspace would be a high def image and the user could change it by them self.

The Notes Workspace would be a design the users would feel like something new and fresh like the IPhone but it will be the same old workspace.

Then the Icons and the background could look something like this, What a difference...

HTML 5 Canvas and .toDataURL

the Canvas object in HTML 5 contains alot of great things

one of the interesting things is that it has a implemented method to get the data inside the canvas as a base64 encoded string.

So if you would

var img1=new Image();

img1.src="Image1.jpeg";

var img2=new Image();

img2.src="Image2.jpeg";

var canvas=document.createElement('canvas');

canvas.width=300;

canvas.height=300;

var canvas2d=canvas.getContext("2d");

canvas2d.drawImage(img1,0,0);

canvas2d.drawImage(img2,100,100);

var data=canvas.toDataURL();

Data will now contain a png image with both the images.

Encoded using base64 easy to send using ajax or store in a field.

You can draw images, plot dots, draw lines, boxes.

There is some online painting sites that already is using this.

http://mugtug.com/darkroom/

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html5-canvas-painting/

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

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Can't imagine that any other system is this simple when upgrading

Upgrading from Domino 8.5.1 with Traveler to 8.5.2 with traveler no problem

and it takes no time.

1. I copied the installation files to the server 3 files

Domino 8.5.2

Traveler 8.5.2

Domino HF for SMTP

2. Shutdown the domino services

3. Started installation files for Domino

4. Started installation file for Hotfix

5. Started installation for Traveler

6. Started domino services again

Total time of upgrade max 15 minutes, bet that Microsoft if you can!!!

Of course we need to upgrade mailboxes but that can be done later no need for that

directly.

And there might be some other problems with your server but this server was straight forward no problem ;-)

XPages Event parameters solution found

It's very interesting that event parameters retrieval is totally undocumented and there is no articles / blogentries about it on the web. You should know that I have been searching and trying to get the solution thru the community but with no luck.

But Now I have found the solution

When triggering a onClick event the this object will contain a XspEventHandler and

this object has a method called getParameters() this method will return a Java ArrayList.

The arraylist will contain the parameters with name and value.

So to print all parameters you can walk thru them like this

var value=this.getParameters();

var tmp="";

for(x=0;x<value.size();x++){

tmp+=value.get(x).getName()+" - "+value.get(x).getValue();

}

tmp will then contain a string will all the names and data of the event parameters for you to display.

Check out my article in the application development wiki

Anybody know how event parameters work in XPages

I have been searching for information on how to retrieve them but with no luck.

It's probably dead simple but I don't know how. If you do please send me and comment ;-)

The solution

http://everythinglotus.blogspot.com/2010/09/xpages-event-parameters-solution-found.html