Per Henrik Lausten

Today I was asked: how do you make sure that anonymous users do not see content that only logged on (and thereby authorized) users must see? I often use a simple solution of having a xp:panel for anonymous users and another xp:panel for authorized users (both on the same XPage). Only one of the two [...]

What a great weekend for open source contributions from me! Yesterday I created the XPages SEO custom control – and today I have created a new XPages custom control for the OpenNTF development contest called XPages Web Analytics custom control: the custom control makes it easy to add web analytics to your XPages web site. In [...]

I have contributed to the OpenNTF development contest by creating an open source XPages Custom Control for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The custom control makes it easy to add the following search engine friendly tags to your XPages web site: page title meta description meta robots meta keywords With these SEO tags bundled in a custom [...]

This is a follow-up to my post on how to create custom 404 and error pages in XPages. A very useful improvement to catching controlled errors such as “page not found” errors is to send the related HTTP status code in the response. So for “page not found” errors the HTTP response code 404 should [...]

My company PHL Consult completed another client project last week involving XPages. The purpose of the project was to modernize an existing Lotus Domino company website by creating a new XPages solution with a related Lotus Notes client CMS for article editing and related content handling (such as menus, graphics, and meta data) – and by [...]

A project for one of my clients went live last week. It’s a portal on heart failures and defibilator products with a related web shop where you can buy automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and accessories. The portal is in Danish. My company PHL Consult was responsible for the implementation of the portal while Supermouse design [...]

I passed the IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Update exam (LOT-801) today and have thereby upgraded my certification to IBM Certified Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 8. I primarily used the Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0 release notes and the Notes/Domino Designer 8.0 Help and also the LOT-801 practice test from CertFX. The [...]

Joyce Davis has just announced on the Lotus Technical Information and Education Community Blog that the XPages Forum is here. The forum is for all XPages related questions and discussions so go there and join the discussion.

This post is about creating a custom error page for handling errors (both controlled errors and not controlled errors) in XPages. For handling errors in non-XPages requests a non-XPages 404/error page has to be added. To create a custom non-XPages error page, see the Help topic “Custom Web server messages” in Domino Administrator or have [...]

David Leedy has just announced that his XPages cheat sheet will be available for handout at Lotusphere 2011. I can confirm that it is a useful cheat sheet because David involved me in a 2 hour review of the cheat sheet. It was great fun and I am pleased to have been involved in putting [...]