I need to show a form to the user from Lotus notes customization extension file (Forms85.nsf). For that I have created a form in Customization file i.e. in Forms85_x.nsf Extension file. The form is properly loaded with all the controls (buttons ,textboxes ,comboboxes) while I’m previewing in Domino server but, whenever I’m trying to access the form from users browser it doesn’t show the controls like button. But the controls in the forms are loading properly while I’m having the form in users own mail file i.e. someone.nsf.
When you say "buttons", are you talking about action buttons in the action menu, or buttons on the form?
The mail template is web-enabled, but you may done something on your form that won't work on the web.
What code do you have behind your buttons? Are you using Lotuscript of Formula?
Also, to be picky (but we are all developers, and it is a requirement to be precise for us), you probably mean that you previw it in Notes (using the Notes client), not Domino. Domino is the server, and the only way to view an appliaction on teh Domino server is by using a browser.
You can do really cool things in Domino web applications, with justa little bit of CSS and Javascript. I frequently use jQuery to create more advance web application, calling Lotusscript agents through Ajax to read/write/update documents in the database. Perhaps you can use that technique?
Customizing iNotes does not work like that. You found the right place to add your customization code, but unfortunately not the right way to do it. The forms in forms85_x.nsf are not supposed to be used as "normal" forms. You put html and javascript in there as plain text (no passthrough html).
Action buttons can be added by using special javascript commands, not by adding buttons in the form. Start reading here about how to do this.
Just forget about everything you know about web-development in domino (classic or xpages) and learn how to do "iNotes" as the only thing in common are the "languages" html and javascript and css
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We want to create an Outlook add-in which customizes the New Mail form (Message class) of Outlook such that our custom region appears embedded, below the attachments bar of Outlook, as shown in this mock-up:
So far, the options we've explored are Form Regions and Form Page customization. Form Page customization allows us to add controls at the required place, but the theme of the form is lost. Form regions, by limitation, cannot insert custom regions in between existing form.
How can this be achieved without changing the theme of the form? Please note, the add-in would be using C++ or .NET for coding.
The short answer is you cannot do it without changing the theme of the form. Regardless, I would not recommend building a solution using the legacy Custom Form approach. Custom TaskPanes are out as well as they can only dock to the window borders.
The long answer is the hard answer, using the Windows API to inject your UI: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OlAdjacentWindows. However, this approach is not supported.
The way forward for Outlook integrations are the new web based add-ins See here.. Granted, they won't allow you to integrate as nicely within the form, but the default Outlook task panes do actually integrate directly below that form, and on the positive side, it allows you to go cross-platform which would be impossible in any of the legacy extensions.
we have a possible customer, who would like to have a custom ribbon in ONE template, which makes it for him easier to design the text etc.
This stuff should work on Office 2007, 2010 and 2013.
Since this will go to thousands of people, the easiest solution for this would be, to implement Macros, which do the Design-Stuff.
It seems to be no problem (I tested only with 2013) to create a custom ribbon and connect it to macros, it seems even to be possible to define custom Icons.
The real problem causess the Ribbon itself. Since, if I activate my custom ribbon, it's activated for all documents, I have to anyhow create a macro, which makes it visible JUST for one template.
Is this even possible, or is there a possibility to define a Ribbon per dotm? I didnt find anything about that, but what I found makes me nervous about the 2007, 2010, 2013 thing...
Or is it easier to create an Addin, which is kindahow compatible with alle 3 Versions?
Use Visual Studio and start a Word Template project. You can use VB if macros are to your liking or C#.
Your future documents will have to have the template attached for the ribbon to show up, which in my experience has proven to be a pain.
Alternatively you can create an addon that handles document-open events and checks if the document looks like what you expect it to look like. Heuristics can be very tricky if you don't have very specific indicators (such as an attached template, schema or content tags)
Another suggestion, which would most likely be acceptable to users, is to write an addon that shows and hides its main ribbon tab but has a ribbon button to "activate" the document and when you click that button (on another tab) it attaches your template or assigns some other persistent indicator to the document. This addon would also check each document when opened for that indicator and automatically show the actual ribbon tab when the document is recognized.
I'm looking for a WP plugin which can allow me to create different forms and embed them on pages and following are the requirements:
Only a single textbox required in each of those forms
The submit button will only be shown if a custom entry/answer is inputted into the textbox. (basically a client-side validation)
The submitted answer should be stored in the back-end with the usermeta (or just the username of the user logged in) so that I can export the entries in a format like csv, etc.
Any thoughts?
P.S. I have found one but not sure if the PRO version of this allows me to have a validation for a custom text. This is the plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/visual-form-builder/
Gravity Forms is the most robust form builder plugin for WordPress. You can, with the right knowledge and skills, make it do pretty much anything you'd like. You can find it here: Gravity Forms.
Very well, I've found this. There are actually good plugins however, you will have to purchase it. I'm looking for a free one. http://www.webdesignboom.com/2013/formcraft-wordpress-form-builder/
I looking for either an open source (or otherwise) php script/library/code that will provide me with a similar email composer that Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor have.
I've played around with lots of wysiwyg editors (eg: tinymce, ckeditor) but, they don't work very well for allowing users to compose emails.
Mosaico Editor is the first open source email template builder of this kind (AFAIK).
You can find a free to use deployment (working also as live demo) at http://mosaico.io and you can get sources at https://github.com/voidlabs/mosaico
I choose blocks from a set defined by the "master template", then you fill you contents and change their styles in a WYSIWYG style. If you're on a large window you can also have live preview for the mobile version.
The master template defines what are the blocks, what you can edit and what you can style and it contains any html trick to make it compatible with most clients: this means you can change the editor behaviour a lot by simply writing a new master template.
It is 99% javascript (IE10+, and any other modern browser) and depends on server-side functions only to do "final inlining" and "image upload/resizing"
Next generation tool for building templates without coding
Grapejs official site
GrapesJS is an open-source, multi-purpose, Web Builder Framework which combines different tools and features with the goal to help you (or users of your application) to build HTML templates without any knowledge of coding. It's a perfect solution to replace the common WYSIWYG editors, which are good for content editing but inappropriate for creating HTML structures. You can see it in action with the official demos, but using its API you're able to build your own editors.
I'm in the process of building one but as a designer it is a work in progress! I'd suggest looking at PHP template engines. They have a similar functionality. Most however will use php variables inside the html page instead of tags.
Another oprion is to check out Perch it is officially a CMS, but is really lightweight and might get the job done for you.
Hope that helps even though it is a year after you posted the question...
EDIT: Actually just stumbled across this thread which links to the new CKEditor - looks pretty cool.
I want to design a website using GWT. This is my understanding of how GWT pages will be delivered to the client browser - When the user puts in the URL into her browser she receives all the static HTML + GWT javascript, and then the javascript queries the server for the dynamic page content and adds it to the DOM. eg - For a blog page the content of the blog is queried by the javascript. is my understanding correct?
If I know that the content will surely be a part of the page(add does not depend on user clicking an expand button etc.), Will it be more efficient if the blog content was a part of the HTML initially served? Something that could be done by using a templating engine like django.
Is there a way to make a templating mechanism in GWT?
Yes, putting your content into the HTML will reduce the number of round trips the client makes to your server. It also means that the blog content won't have to wait for your GWT javascript to load before it can be displayed.
GWT itself isn't useful for a template system, but most servers that run GWT servlets will also support JSP pages. GWT works fine with these pages, you just need to put the GWT script tag in as usual. You will no doubt be able to find a ready-made templating solution but rolling your own is not too hard.