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Notes 8.5.2 First Showing @ Lotusphere
Peter Presnell AC428784-7231-B6E1-8525-73D500012C9E ktree19@yahoo.com | Jan 20 | Tags: notes852 xpages lotusphere | Comments (3) | Visits (1,070)
One of the many interesting aspects of Lotusphere 2010 has been the first pubic showing of early code drops of 8.5.2. The following is a list of the features I have heard covered by IBM representatives at sessions I have attended so far. There are still more sessions, so the list may grow..... I will provide it now for the benefit of those unable to attend these sessions. I may not get another chance for a while as it was mentioned that a code drop will be made available within a few days for members of the managed beta program. So at that time a cone of silence must descend....
1.When editing XPages it will now be possible to drag/drop new controls onto the Xpage while using the source code view (YES)..
2.It will be possible to mark an XPage as being accessible to Public Access users much like other design elements are.
3.When dragging fields from a data source onto an XPage the fields will no longer default to text edit boxes. They type of control created will now vary based upon the type of data item used on the underlying form (e.g. date/time, rich text etc).
4.When dragging fields from a data source onto an XPage it will be possible to reorder the fields before they are imported.
5.Radio and Checkbox groups will now appear as native XPage controls. No more coding them as combo boxes first, adding the allowed values and manulally chaging them to radio/checkbox group controls.
6.It will be possible to sign a database from within designer using a right click action (Yes, yes, yes).
7.A dojo tab is being added to most controls that are implemented using dojo to allow for a wide range of dojo properties to be set from the Designer UI.
8.CKEditor will become the new default rich text editor bringing a vastly superior editor to the Web client.
9.Editing Database scripts will now be invoked using the Eclipse editor. An Eclipse @Formulae editor is not yet available to a workaround is in place when @Formula are used.
10.The "New Application" dialog is being redesigned and will include (amongst other things) the ability to assign it to a specific working set
11.It will be possible to add XPage components to a "Library" which can be shared across multiple applications.
12.A series of RESTful APIs are being made available that will allow Developers to extend XPage applications in many ways. This includes writing new controls, data drivers, validators etc.
In addition, the following features are being worked on but are considered unlikely to make 8.5.2. So think 9.0 sometime in 2011.
1.Hooks within DDE to Open Source source code systems.
2.A true class editor for JavaScript and SSJS
3.Many components of Project Vulcan (including Lotus Notes) will utilize HTML5, CSS3, and Dojo++
4.Hooks will be provided to the new analytics capabilities being added as part of Project Vulcan.
It also looks like we will start to see some developer-focused tools made available to Notes develoeprsvia OpenNTF. This is an awesome initiative and will include:-
1.A tools that will allow for the profiling of XPages running on a Domino Server
2.A tool that will migrate existing Forms-based applications to XPages (This was also mentioned in the startegy session on Notes so we may see partial solutions released via OpenNTF before a more comprehensive tool is provided as part of the product in Notes 9+