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Remove all classes using dojo and jQuery
One of last week’s challenges on the side was to take this Connections wiki page and make it readable on a small screen – if you drag the right hand side over to the left you will see that the right...
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Troubleshooting JavaScript library errors in XPages
Coincidentally on three separate occasion, with three different customers/developers using three different libraries I encountered the same issue last week. I am going illustrate the process I go...
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Mustache.js – How to create a client side Repeat control in XPages
Whether or not you realize it, everyone who uses a repeat control in XPages development is actually using a server-side template. Let me demonstrate the concept…. We create an object through many...
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Sorting an unsorted XPages document collection based on a date field
In one of my recent applications I had a requirement to return the top 500 search results, but sort them by a specific date field on the document, in descending order. Due to the size of the database...
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Prototypal inheritance of SSJS across the whole server in XPages
A friend asked me the other day how would I determine where a string lay within a JavaScript Array. I of course answered – “it depends! If you are using newer IE or a non-crappy implementation of the...
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How to add icons to individual items in a Select2 multi-value field
Select2 is one of the best user interface enhancers I have come across – if you do not know what it is then you need to go play with it. It transforms SELECT boxes into dynamic, stunning, interactive...
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The two sides of the incremental operator in JavaScript ++
I learned this last week, possibly highlighting my non-classical programming training. I have never come across this in all my years of JavaScript and apparently it is pervasive in other languages such...
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IBMSBT in XPages: Tagging a file
In this article I will show how to tag a file in IBM Smartcloud using the JavaScript API. Introduction Following on from the previous article on how to load a file into Smartcloud we will start from...
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Using an Office Add-In to search and replace data in a Word Document
In this article I will demonstrate how we can use an Office Add-In to perform simple search and replace function within a Word document. This is particularly useful when you want to use an external...
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Office Add-Ins – JavaScript control over the Content Control lock in a Word...
In this article I will show how easy it is to programmatically lock and release the lock on a content control in a word document. This is very helpful when you are populating regions of a document but...
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Office Add-Ins: Working with Tables in Word. Part 1: Creation
In this article I will show how the Word JavaScript API can be utilized to add tables to your word document using an Office Add-In. This will be a multi part blog post as there are a lot of nuances and...
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On June 21st PSCGroup will be hosting the NorthWest Chicago JavaScript Meetup in our offices from 6-8:30pm This month’s speaker is a lecturer at Northwestern, the awesome Mark Thompson For more...
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Office Add-Ins: Working with Tables in Word. Part 2: Creation from OOXML
In this long overdue article I will discuss how to create a custom table, get the OOXML from it, clean it and then be able to insert the table anywhere into a Word document. Background In the previous...
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Office Add-Ins: Working with Tables in Word. Part 4: Getting a table in a...
In this article we will see how to use a ContentControl to quickly and accurately access a table in a Word document. Introduction In previous articles we have seen how to get a Table using a search or...
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