Using Ajax to manipulate Lotus Notes documents

I just got an [tag]article[/tag] published on [tag]DeveloperWorks[/tag] regarding [tag]Ajax[/tag] and [tag]Lotus Domino[/tag]:
Using Ajax to manipulate Lotus Notes documents

Update:

The sample database attached to the article is errenous. A working version can be downloaded here. I have notified my editor and are waiting for guidelines.

Update 2:

Due to copyright reasons I’m not allowed to keep the sample database in this blog. IBM have been provided with the working sample database and an update should be online soon. Have patience.

Update 3:

The updated version of the sample database is now on-line at IBM again. DIRECT LINK TO DATABASE

June 7th, 2006 in Uncategorized | tags: , , , , , ,

17 Comments

Jurjen van den BroeckJune 7th, 2006 at 12:35

The file at Notes.Net is local encrypted!

chrisJune 7th, 2006 at 15:18

I have the same problem opening the updated database. Looks like this one is locally encrypted too.

Dagerot JoachimJune 7th, 2006 at 15:25

That’s really odd. According to the database properties it’s no locally encryption active. I have made a new note-copy of it in a desperate try to make it work. According to one source it should work now. Please give it a try.

PeterJune 7th, 2006 at 15:27

It works for me :-)

Andrei KouvchinnikovJune 7th, 2006 at 16:50

Congratulations with the article! I wish I could implement AJAX To-Do list on a PocketPC but it doesn’t support javascript.
I can not open the database either (locally encrypted error), I tried in Notes 7. I guess those who can open it, downloaded it from another (country-specific?) IBM server than I did. Hopefully the change will be activated on all servers sooner or later, but I wouldn’t count on that.

Dagerot JoachimJune 7th, 2006 at 17:26

Thanks Andrei, I understand you have a finger in this aswell.

We have successfully implemented an Ajax-pattern driven application on Blackberry, they support JavaScript. It’s strange that PocketPC doesn’t, is that for all PocketPC or some specific models/versions?

re:Domino » Prototyp, DOJO, selfmade - what Ajax framework should we use?June 7th, 2006 at 21:49

[...] Today Per Henrik Lausten made comment regarding my “Using Ajax to manipulate Lotus Notes documents” post. In his post I found out that IBM is working close with the DOJO toolkit. This is very interesting and I will certainly try out DOJO once again, it was some months ago last time. [...]

Andrei KouvchinnikovJune 8th, 2006 at 00:16

Sorry, I was wrong about Pocket PC. I’ve just tested a simple AJAX example and it works. I was probably thinking about some other similar technology like Java or ActiveX.

lianfangJune 8th, 2006 at 04:33

thanks，i download the demo,it’s works well,but the demo not support chinese language

Dagerot JoachimJune 8th, 2006 at 05:36

lianfang: Thanks for trying it out, I’m sorry about the lack of chinese support.

Mac GuideraJune 8th, 2006 at 17:15

Good article….thanks for sharing and making it easy for others to pick this up.

Mads BirkJune 26th, 2006 at 13:24

Hi, when I run the Demo, I gets this error:
HTTP Web Server: Application Exception – Documents treated as HTML cannot be edited [/IBM/AjaxDemo_part1.nsf/$$viewtemplate%20for%20xmlview?OpenForm]
what am I doing wrong?

Dagerot JoachimJune 26th, 2006 at 13:43

There should not be ?OpenForm but ?ReadForm in that sentence. The demo-files overall is working. Are you accesing the database via the index.html file resource?

Mads BirkJune 27th, 2006 at 10:19

Sorry, but I’am a rocky in Notes web app.
I just called the “$$viewtemplate for xmlview” document is the wrong?

Dagerot JoachimJune 27th, 2006 at 10:22

open up the application with:
http://yourserver/thedatabase.nsf/index.html
and everything will work.

Replace yourserver and thedatabase with you real values.

Mads BirkJune 27th, 2006 at 10:25

:-)
Thanks, lets just forget this :-D

Dagerot JoachimJune 27th, 2006 at 10:27

Np, keep in touch if you have other questions, I’m here to help! :)

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