IBM Notes 9 Social Edition Cheat Sheet

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IBM Notes 9 Cheat Sheet

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1. Content Assist within the XPages Source Editor

Notes 9 introduces new content assist functionality in the XPages source editor. This functionality allows you to use content assist when working in 'source mode' in an XPage. Similar to other Eclipse editors, pressing CTRL+SPACE will activate the content assist functionality. Step 1: Go to the Domino Designer Preference (File → Preferences) and enable “Enable content assist on tag names in source editor” as shown below.

Step 2: Open an xpage and Insert any one control (Eg: Table) and go to source tab. Step 3: You can write the visibility hide when form the source tab itself.

Step 4: Just below the “<xp:table>” tag press “Ctrl + Space”, It will list all the possible tags that can added to the source, then select the tag that you need to include.



2. XPages Source Editor Hyperlink Navigation

In Notes 9 of Domino Designer, the XPages Source Editor supports hyperlink navigation. By Pressing Ctrl and hover to the name of the style sheet or java script library, mouse

pointer will be changes as a hand symbol. When you click on it, the corresponding file is opened.

3. XPages Source Editor Hover Help

In Notes 9, you will now also have the ability to get this help in the XPages source editor. Just hover on a tag for a second, it will show the help window. Previously it is available

on lotus script editor.



4. PNG File Support for Image Resources

In Notes 9, you now have the ability to import PNG files into Designer as image resources. This file type is now a selection choice in the Image type combo box.

5. "Close Application" Applications' Navigator Menu Option

In Notes 9, you can now manually close applications which are open in the Domino

Designer Applications navigator. Just right click the application and select “close application”, it will close all opened

design elements from that application.

6. JAR design element

A new JAR design element has been introduced in Notes 9.

The JAR design element gives you the ability to work with packaged Java code/libraries that are included in the application NSF.

This design element is only available to XPage applications, where the JAR is automatically loaded by the XPages runtime.

This feature frees you from having to deploy the JARS to a server and/or include the source files uniquely in the application database



7. Send Mail Simple Action

In Notes 9, Using simple action we can send mail.

Step1: Add a button to the xpage.

Step2: Go to events tab and click Add Action button

Step3: Select the Send mail from the drop down list

Step4: Fill From, to, cc, bcc, subject, body values in the dialog and press OK

8. Launch Option to Run Server-Based XPages Applications Directly on a Domino server

When this option is checked and the application is launched by a Notes user, the XPages runtime is requested to run the application on the Domino server over HTTP. So the advantage of this Approach is a lot of Network Transactions are eliminated and the performance improves.

To achieve this, we need to enable "Run server-based XPages applications directly on Domino server." property in database launch tab.



9.New Calendaring and Scheduling (C&S) back end classes

In Notes 9, we are provided with the ability to create, read, update, and remove calendar data in a personal mail file using standardized iCalendar (RFC 5545) data format. Using two classes Notes Calendar NotesCalendarEntry

10. Spell checker added to CKEditor A spell checker has now been added to the CKEditor in Xpages. It will be available on both the server and the client.

Disclaimer: All these features are based on Notes 9 public beta and not the GA product. IBM reserves the rights to hold,

change or remove the above features in the general release

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