Ext.nd Beta 1r1 Release

[RWaters]

Edit: 9/17/08 - Sorry for the long delay (it was a very busy summer), but now the wait for Ext.nd Beta 1r1 is over!


Ext.nd Beta 1r1
http://extjs.com/downloads/extnd-beta1r1.zip

Ext.onReady bug fix
After you download Beta 1r1, refresh the ext-all.js and ext-all-debug.js files with the following that include the onReady bug fix. Beta 1r2 will have this fix but in meantime, you'll need to do this if your app will be accessed from IE.
ext-all .js and ext-all-debug.js with onReady bug fix

We've added several new enhancements and fixed many bugs since beta 1. We are currently working on beta 2 and plan to release it later this fall. In the meantime, please try out beta 1r1. We hope you'll be pleased with the enhancements and bug fixes. I'm sure many of you will be happy to have categorized view support and be sure to check out the api docs for Ext.nd that are now included in the Ext.nd Admin database.

Here's a list of the major enhancements and bug fixes included in Ext.nd Beta 1r1

• Added "basic" categorized view support and support for response docs in views. This support will give users the expand one category/response at a time like the way the default domino html rendering does but within the nicer looking Ext grids.
• Added the ability in Ext.nd.DomioUI to load in a doc, page, or any url into a tabPanel. This will allow links to documents, pages, etc. to be saved, emailed, etc. and when clicked on, the doc, page, or url will be loaded into a tab within the DominoUI layout. For example, this url (http://openntf.org/extnd/demo.nsf/ma.../www.lotus.com) will open the Demos app and will then automatically load in http://lotus.com into a tab.
• Added a sample application called Tasks to the download file. This is a demo application demonstrating how to use Ext.nd to convert a Notes application into a web application. This application is also discussed in an article recently published in THE VIEW titled, "Extend your Notes applications to the Web fast with Ext.nd" http://eview.com/eview/VOLR6.nsf/Cur...0?OpenDocument)
• Added new API docs for Ext and Ext.nd classes in the Ext.nd Admin database. The Ext.nd classes are shown as a separate node in the navigation menu and when expanded, you can find information about the Ext.nd classes.
• Added support to allow you to develop and test Ext.nd enabled apps from your local machine with Domino Designer without needing a Domino server.
• Now uses Ext 2.2 and thus, our license has changed to GPL. For those needing/wanting a commercial license, we are working on that as well.
• Fixed the paging toolbar that was broken when working on category views. The "page x of y" wasn't showing the correct value for x on flat or categorized views and the previous/first and next/last buttons weren't getting greyed out when they should. The fix for this was to no longer show "page x of y" but instead to change the paging toolbar to report on what "entries" are being shown and not what "page". Therefore, the toolbar now says: "Showing entries x - y of z"
• Fixed an issue where @formula actions that we couldn't convert would still display and then throw errors when clicked. The code now does not show these actions when the @formula can't be converted to JavaScript code.
• Fixed the issue where Ext.nd.UIOutline was not rendering an outline in the same 'state' as it was saved in Designer. (i.e. expand the nodes that were expanded when the outline was saved).
• Fixed an issue when refreshing a document in IE hangs IE (see this post: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29936)
• Fixed the issue with search not working with "show single category" type of views. Also fixed some search issues on normal views.
• Fixed issue with grid height on PickListStrings/PickList and with UIView rendered to a div. The old code would sometimes leave the paging toolbar cut off.
• Fixed issue with Actionbar code that tries to parse a title that is null. Action buttons can have their titles now set to nothing and the Ext.nd.Actionbar code will properly render the button without throwing an error.
• Fixed Ext.nd.DominoUI to reference the correct UIView when changing views.
• Fixed the issue with the string "null" displaying in columns when an empty string should display instead.
• Fixed a couple of @Command parsing bugs. More info here > http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29273
• Fixed issue with rows no longer expanding to show all content in a cell. (This worked in the alpha version but was was broke in beta 1)

Thanks again for all the great feedback and support. We do apologize for the long delay.

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[perka]

Since my neighbour is having a party and I can't sleep I'll go ahead and test it right away.

[RWaters]

Nah, forget about the code. Go join the neighbour's party!

[jack.slocum]

Congrats on the first release Rich. It looks great!

[KimH]

Congrats Rich (and the team) for the alpha 1 version

I was hoping that we have had the time to get here first with our implementation of an Ext extension/plugin for Lotus Notes/Domino. Well.... maybe we can still get to a beta 1 or even the final 1.0 release before you guys

Anyway... I have just tried out your alpha version and from what I can see of it we are taken another approach for supporting Domino, so I guess both implementations (and the other ones I have heard rumors about) can co-exist when they are final -- and that is a good thing

By the way... our implementation was initially build only for Lotus Notes/Domino, but we are about to extend it further for "IBM System i" (IBM AS/400) integration... which is another story (but we have plans for supporting ILE/RPG, ILE/Cobol and PHP on it).

[RWaters]

Thanks KimH, we're glad to finally get it out.

Ext.nd actually brings together several previous projects for integrating Notes/Domino with Ext. Jack, Jake and myself had all been working on our own and had our own releases. After speaking with Jack Slocum we decided to all work together for a single official Ext Domino framework which is what you see the beginning of here.

I would recommend speaking with Jack Slocum before you go off whipping up your own release as there may be some licensing issues

[BPreusing]

Hi,
very nice framework!

My first tests with a simple "Player" form and 2 views (switching between them by column "sort") showed up some issues:

- left, right, center in columns ignored (header and content)
- number formatting is ignored
- all columns are sortable in both directionsa despite of their settings
- multiple values in columns not recognized (only first value is shown)
- in IE (6.0.2900) categorized columns display empty
- IE swallows 1 MB of RAM permanently on each switch between the two views.

Best regards.

[Josep Alemany]

I can't wait to download and test all! I'm very interested in that project, can I help you in any way?

Congratulations,

Josep Alemany

[jratcliff]

Hi BPreusing,

Thanks for the testing and feedback! This is exactly what we were hoping from the Domino community. The more people test and give us feedback, the more rock-solid the first release will be.

Now, as for what you found:

- left, right, center ignored - this should be an easy fix

- number formatting ignored - hopefully not too difficult do you have any examples of formatting you are trying to do?

- all columns sortable - yep, knew about that one and it should be fixed soon

- multi-values in columns - hmmm, I thought it handled that. We'll relook at that

- categorized views - not supported yet

- IE memory leak - gotta fix that for sure!

Again, thanks for testing and as we make these fixes available please let us know if they work in your environment.

Jack
Ext.nd Team

[BPreusing]

Hi Jack,

you are welcome!

Concerning number formatting: I at least need "n fixed decimals", "punctuation at thousands" and "paranthesis when negative".
I personally like translating "paranthesis" to "span color:red" ;.)

Attached you will find an example of my own earlier extjs experiments...