Can someone help me with sorting out a decent web view.
I have created a view template, which has an embedded view within it. As far as I can make out, the view template is just there to add navigation buttons and colours, etc.
I have tried making the view columns certain widths, this works in the client but on the web, the columns seem to disregard this and are all bunched up next to each other, as wide as the largest entry. Obviously, the view does not have any gridlines, so the view looks messy.
Can someone help me out here with what to do. I know I can try and use HTML for the view, but I am not that confident with HTML. I know I can use the Java applet but this then always has the white backgound and the grey heading bar at the top, although it does take notice of the column widths.
Also, for column spacing, i create an empty column, and use the followin code
in colun. the gif is a empty transparent gif of size 1*1 which u can create and
then give space by increasing the width as required
If you don’t mind your users to scroll left/right… I think if you set to fit within margins or 100%, then the view, will squeeze together within the browser window. HTH
Seems like this is a common request - to have decent looking web views. I have a lot of people currently using the Domino Web Tools project and they all seem to like the web views there. You don’t have to write any HTML. Just design the view the way you would want it to look in the Notes client and then create a $$ViewTemplateDefault form to use the js and css files in the DWT database. Look at the demo db for an exmple of how to do this.
Yeah, but how the heck do you get the Web Tools Project?
I don’t see the source or any way to download it or any way to join OpenNTF. And whenever I go there, the site does not respond (or is so slow that by the time it comes up, I forgot what I clicked).
You have to register/log in to download (no adverse effects to registration – your info goes nowhere, you won’t be spammed). Yes, the server has been godawful slow for the past couple of weeks. It hasn’t always been that way, and I don’t know what the problem was. Testing just now, though, I had no slowness issues. Try again – there may have been a glitch.
And I have to agree that it’s a pain in the butt to use the projects database. Somebody must like the UI, but that somebody definitely ain’t me. The project opens by default to the Project Snapshot – there is no indication that you need to first go to the Releases tab, then select a release from the mini-view before you can download. From a usability point of view, it sucks for “consumers”. (The web side isn’t much help for “producers” either, IMHO. I never did find a way to participate productively in the projects area as a web user. I don’t think it was ever a real consideration.)
There are a number of ways to go about this. The blank graphic already suggested is a fine method, although it seems a bit more straightforward to just add an empty column in html:
Column content:
“[” + “]”
(“[” and “<” shown separately for display in this forum.)
Title:
same thing without quotes.
Also, if I were Stan Rogers, I’d mention CSS attached to the view template as an option.
