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Sudhakar Reddy Sudhakar Reddy

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What's New in IBM Domino Designer Social Edition

09/05/13 @2013 IBM Corporation

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Open MIC Lotus Team

Sudhakar Reddy – Tech LeadPresenter

Ranjit Rai – Lotus Technical Advisor

Hansraj Mali – Lotus Technical Advisor

Jayavel Rajendran – Lotus Technical Advisor

Vinayak Tavargeri – Lotus Support Manager Open Mic Facilitator

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Agenda

IBM Domino Designer 9.0 Social Edition

─ Server Side JavaScript Debugger─ Home Page Improvements─ XPages Editing Features─ XSP Properties Editor─ Help Enhancements─ General Improvements & Important Technote─ Q&A


Domino Designer Social Edition Design Goals

Integrate Domino Designer Extension Library tooling into Designer “core” Improve Server Side JavaScript debugging experience!! Improve Domino Designer “Welcome” and “Home Page” experiences Improve XPages developer productivity New Jar design element Integrate and improve XSP Properties editor Bug fixes and quality improvements in key 'high traffic' areas (such as LS editor)


Domino Designer Server Side JavaScript Debugger

New “Domino Designer Server Side JavaScript” Debug Configuration

● Debugging is only supported on Domino Social Edition servers and later

● Debugger is based on Eclipse “Remote Java Connection” protocol and uses JPDA/JDI


Domino Designer Server Side JavaScript Debugger

Debugger can be invoked from a new toolbar item

Breakpoints can be set directly within XPages' SSJS or within SSJS Script Library

New 'breakpoint' keyword has been added to the SSJS syntax to allow for permanent breakpoints

─ Breakpoints are only enabled when the server is running in debug mode Sever must be configured to run in 'debug mode' in order for debugger to work

─ Note this implies that a port must be opened on the server, so it is not recommended to debug servers that have unprotected access to the internet!

– JavaEnableDebug=1– JavascriptEnableDebug=1– JavaDebugOptions=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000


Debugging Server Side JavaScript!


Client-Side JavaScript/Dojo Debug Option

New debug options─ Use case:

– Dojo Library deployed in an OSGi bundle on the server– Developer needs to debug uncompressed version of the source files

• e.g. xspClientDojo.js vs xspClientDojo.js.uncompressed.js

─ How:– Set the “Use uncompressed resources” option in

XSP Properties editor

─ Result:– The XPages runtime will server *.uncompressed.js & *.uncompressed.css if available (from

within the OSGi bundle)


Improve Domino Designer “Welcome” and “Home Page” experience


Home Page and Welcome Experience

Updated look and feel to align with the new “Discover” page Simplified by removing the Welcome page altogether and consolidating content

onto Home page Updated content with intros and help links to help topics for major functional

areas Quick Links tab provides a list of working sets (shows more than 5 working sets

at a time!), task links, links to resources, and tips Home remains closed on restart if manually closed before shutdown


Improve XPages Developer Productivity

Content assist in xsp source editor editor!! (also works with SSJS in xsp source editor)

Hyperlink navigation withinthe xsp source editor

Hover help within the xsp source editor

Palette State Saving Jar design element Navigator now

shows all working sets!! :-)


XPages Social Edition Integration Points ● New XPages SendMail Action:

● Send Mail Simple action added.● Advanced features support Embedded Experience

● Encapsulates required JSON or XML payload


XPages Social Edition New Features

● PNG file support for image resources● Editable content type field● Updated application templates● Application Navigator changes and additions


XPages Social Edition New Features

● Domino Data Services. The Domino® Data Service is a REST API that accesses database on Domino servers. It is part of Domino Access Services.

● For more complete information and reference material on using the Data Services, refer to the information found in the Product Documentation section of the Notes and Domino Application Development wiki at http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf.

● Calendaring and Scheduling (C&S) back end Java classes Session.getCalendar NotesCalendar.getEntry NotesCalendar.createEntry NotesCalendar.readRange

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf


Help Enhancements

Domino Designer 9.0 Social Edition user assistance─ Improved Designer Home Page info and tips─ Content assist and hover help within the XPages source

Designer Eclipse help plugins─ Many customer Feedback issues addressed in help─ ~ 1000 updates in the Designer basic guide─ Content organization streamlined

to remove redundant material─ Language cross references added

to some topics─ Many new code examples

– C&S APIs.... LotusScript Editor F1 help


Bug Fixes to Critical Issues

Bug fixes for:─ Error 500 when using Java Design Element (also fixed in 853 FP1)─ Source control issues encountered when importing databases with

many script libraries (also fixed in 853 FP2)─ Fixes to tooling issues reported against Upgrade Pack 1

Fixes to the LotusScript Editor and builder─ Problems view reports correct line numbers for LotusScript errors!─ Improve search navigation

Performance/memory improvements in the XPages editor


Bug Fixes to Critical Issues

IMPORTANT! - Increase Designer JVM settings─ See technote 1617708: Designer Performance Technote─ http://tinyurl.com/DesignerJVMSettings

IMPORTANT! - “Designer won't start”

Solution:─ Delete the .snap file from the specified dir!

MessageIt appears that Domino Designer failed to successfully shut down in a previous session. Please check your notes_data/workspace/.metadata/.plugins folder for the existance of a .snap file. Delete any instances found of this file.

java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources.util.ProjectInfoSerializer.getProjectInfoLocation(ProjectInfoSerializer.java:285)at com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources.util.ProjectInfoSerializer$InfoLoader.loadDocument(ProjectInfoSerializer.java:135)at com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources.util.ProjectInfoSerializer$InfoLoader.getElementForProject(ProjectInfoSerializer.java:115)

http://tinyurl.com/DesignerJVMSettings


Q & A


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