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Investigate Feasibility of Splitting Tight-Coupling in Notes Client Applications

In application development beyond Domino, the preference has been for looser coupling. In Notes Client there is a lot of tight coupling. Composite Applications aimed to address this, but they were complex, tied to Eclipse, and crucially required h...
almost 7 years ago in Domino Designer 1 Under Consideration

Allow the copied shared columns to have a shared flag that can be switched off to make it un-shared and make the properties visible and editable

Allow the copied shared columns to have a shared flag that can be switched off to make it un-shared and make the properties visible and editable.
over 5 years ago in Domino Designer / Views 0 Under Consideration

Hover Over Text on Action Hot-Spot Notes Client

Please allow hover over text or better still programmable tool tips for images in Notes Client when using Lotus Script Action Hot-Spots.. It is difficult to design modern apps for Notes Client, I replaced descriptive text hotspots with these icons...
almost 5 years ago in Domino Designer 0 Under Consideration

DQL: improvements on named variable handling and on documentation

Playing around with DQL, and especially with NamedVariables. The NotesDominoQuery class at the moment has 2 methods dealing with named variables: DQL.setNamedVariable("name", "value") DQL.resetNamedVariables() The more I try to use that concept th...
about 3 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 3 Needs Review

Provide properties to control field appearance depending on whether user can edit a field value or not

Currently, we often need to create 2 fields on a form (with different hide when settings) when using field types Date/Time (with picker control), Checkbox, Radio button, etc. because when the document is being read we simply want to display the fi...
over 6 years ago in Domino Designer / @Formulas 0 Under Consideration

Missing documentation for NotesDominoQuery class

Currently working my way through DQL and QRP topics. Tried to get a catch on NamedResults and was wondering for a couple of days why I couldn't get it to work: I'm working on a simple query like Set nQuery = myDb.CreateDominoQuery() sQuery = "task...
about 3 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 1 Needs Review

Add the missing NotesViewColumn properties

There are a bunch of missing properties to manipulate view columns with LotusScript. This is very annoying because it forces to edit DXL for simple operations like setting a TOTAL. Missing NotesViewColumn class properties are : .isTotal .isAverage...
over 6 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 1 Under Consideration

Misleading documentation must be corrected esp. in the NotesDominoQuery area

I'm currently fighting my way into the DQL and QRP classes (LotusScript/Java), and found many bad and misleading information as well as missing parts in Designer help. To begin with, there are only examples in the LotusScript area, Java examples a...
about 3 years ago in Domino Designer / LotusScript 2 Under Consideration

Background images of the form should print when document is printed.

If you have a layer on a form that contains contains a background image as part of the layer, that image should be printed when the document is printed. This way the printed document looks the same as a document displayed in the client and avoid c...
over 2 years ago in Domino Designer 0 Needs Review

New field property to auto-select entire content when tabbing into it

Almost all forms in existing apps or websites select the content of a field when tabbing into it. Let’s make Notes behave the same, or at least have an option to do so. Submitted by Theo Heselmans
almost 7 years ago in Domino Designer 1 Under Consideration
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