Search within a category on the web
Have you ever had the need to search within a category in a Domino web view? By default (at least I can't find any other option), you can't do this with a ?SearchView command. In Ext.nd, we don't use ?SearchView since it doesn't return the data formatted as XML like ?ReadViewEntries does. Therefore, we have our own agent that we call that will do a search and return xml data so we can load it in a nice looking Ext grid. Well, now this search agent will also search WITHIN a category you have your view restricted to. This really comes in handy for our PickList dialog. You can try it out here if you want. Just click the "show picklist using a category" button, and then at the bottom of the dialog, type in your search words and click "search". The search will then be executed but only within the category you are currently viewing. Once we release the next beta of Ext.nd you can try it out in your own apps. Search within a category on the web
28 March 2008 … 1 - COMMENTS
Ext.nd meets categorized views
The next beta release of Ext.nd will include support for categorized views. However, don't get all excited and expect them to work just like categorized views in the Notes client. That is our ultimate goal but for this implementation there will be some limts. These limits are the same limits you see in a view rendered the default way from Domino. First, you can only expand one category at a time. Also, since we currently only support "paging" through views, there will be times that when you expand a category and then go to the next page, you won't be able to see what category was expanded. Hopefully, our next improvement on categorized views will take care of these shortcomings but for now, I'm really pleased with how this turned out. Oh, and if you can't wait for the next release (we still have a few more bugs to fix) and want to see this in action now, just head on over to our demo hosted on OpenNTF. On the outline in the left pane just expand on "View Demos" and then expand "Categorized Views" and from there you'll see many different categorized views setup that we have been testing against. Ext.nd meets categorized views
15 March 2008 … 5 - COMMENTS