Jack Ratcliff

Jack,

This is great. I am thinking of doing something close to this in the re-write of our primary application as we port it to the web. How much javascript coding will need to be involved once the framework is completed?

Hi Wayne,

Pretty much ZERO javascript coding will be needed unless you want to customize further what the "default" look and feel is. My goal is to have at least a default look and feel for web based domino apps like we get with Notes based apps. In a Notes based app you can design your form(s) and views(s) and when you open it in the Notes client you at least get a someone decent UI. With this framework you will get a decent UI (like the one in the demo) simply by copying a few design elements from the DWT database into your app and that's it. The UI is built for you automatically.

Jack

Nice looking example, I really like the outline - tree widget. I've been spending quite a bit of time on translating domino views into Jack's grid and will be rolling out a new version of Domino YUI on OpenNTF pretty soon.

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Hi Rich,

I've been wanting to get in touch with you for a while now. Your blog requires some sort of registration that I didn't want to get into. We really need to compare notes and get together on some of this if you want. I'm feeling pretty good about wiring up domino outlines with the yui-ext (or Ext as it's going to be called in the next realease) Tree control and the flat views are working pretty well as well (your code put me in the right direction in regard to paging with domino view urls). I've even added some listeners to when you double click, hit the delete/enter key, etc on views. I can't decide if I want to tackle drag and drop of docs onto folders yet or the holy grail of categorized views. Drag and drop sounds easier but I want to wait for Ext's version of the grid that has some better built-in drag/drop functionality.

Jack

Jack,

Yes the categorized views are really important, also a document preview under the view list might be a nice feature. One that could be turned on and off would be even better. If there is anything I can do to help out I would be honored. I am not too familiar with javascript, but I can test or document if need be.

Jack,

Yea, I was having a lot of problems with spam and just turned the registration on as a quick fix. Planning on changing that around at some point. I've also been anxiously awaiting the new grid component. Feel free to email me if you want to get together on any of it, I've been tossing a few back and fourth with Jake Howlett as well on the JSON view output.