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The Mission of OpenNTF is to support the open source projects hosted at OpenNTF.Org. OpenNTF provides the framework to develop open source applications which may be freely distributed.

Browse the catalogs to find the projects, components and controls you're looking for which have been made available under the Apache license or under the GPL license. Browse the project area to find the latest project updates before they have been cleared.

On OpenNTF: New Controls - Personal Favorites and anonymous Ratings

Niklas Heidloff | 1:46:26 AM Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

Serdar Basegmez has developed a new version of his project xInvolve Custom Control. The new version contains several new functionality, most importantly personal favorites and anonymous ratings. You can try these functions in the XSnippets application.

Watch the mini video to see the controls in action.

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On OpenNTF: New @Formulas - @URLEncodeExt, @CancelPartialRefreshExt, @GetNextBusinessDayExt

Niklas Heidloff | 1:45:48 AM Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

Ulrich Krause has created a new project SSJS Extension which contains new @Formulas that can be used by server side JavaScript code.

@URLEncodeExt
@URLDecodeExt
@CancelPartialRefreshExt
@GetNextBusinessDayExt

Watch the mini video to see the formulas in action.

Here is the documentation for @GetNextBusinessDayExt:

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Improvements to XSnippets: Search and Favorites

Serdar Basegmez | 1:20:46 AM Monday, May 14, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

After a long time (3 months I guess) a new set of features has been implemented on OpenNTF XSnippets site.

In addition to a couple of bug fixes, we have implemented an extended search functionality, OpenSearch support and 'My Favorites' feature...

Search Improvements
We have added some usability enhancement to search. See the video.

First of all, if you click a letter or number key on the XSnippets site, search bar will be automatically activated now. This is probably better than clicking a thin search box. The second improvement is the type ahead in the search box. Each character you entered fires a FT search on the server side and will return possible matches in a type ahead format (thanks to Tim Tripcony). If you select anything here, you will skip the search results page and go to the snippet directly.

OpenSearch Support
OpenSearch is an open standard for cross-site searching. Today, many browsers are supporting OpenSearch feature.

OpenSearch has two basic functions. The first is to declare 'how to search in my site' meta information to other sites. The second is more exciting: You can also announce that 'You can search keywords in my site, use this url...'.

We have added a simple link to add XSnippet Search into your browser's search engines. To do this, search anything to go to results page and click the link on the top right corner.

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On Chrome and Firefox, you can also define a specific keyword for this search engine. Using keyword you can search XSnippets site from the address bar.

For Chrome, keyword can be entered on the "Add Search Engine" dialog when you click the link. To use the keyword, go to the address bar, type your keyword and press 'tab'. For Firefox, you should edit the keyword in the "Edit Search Engines" dialog. After you defined the keyword, type your keyword, a space and search terms into the address bar.

Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer also support keyword search.

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Chrome

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Firefox

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Internet Explorer


My Favorites
We have also added my favorite feature to XSnippets. In any snippet, you will see a large star on the top right corner.

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You have to be logged in to mark a snippet as a favorite. You can also see other persons that marked the same entry as favorite.

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Once you logged in, we are placing a cookie on your browser. So next time you visit the site, you can see your favorites even you are not authenticated.

You can see your favorites in the left menu and "My Favorites" page.

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Finally, you may use "Best rated XSnippets" view to mark snippets  'in-view'.

I hope you like the recent enhancements. I will explain some technical details later in my blog. We will also release the final database in the project page soon. Enjoy :)

Some important changes to Project Releases

Peter Tanner | 10:06:45 PM Tuesday, May 8, 2012 | Full Story and Comments
Until recently, the “In Catalog” field in the Project and Release pages normally displayed “No”. This has now been fixed – at least for the individual project releases. So now you can tell, on a release by release basis, if it has gone through the IP verification process, and has had its documentation and functionality checked.

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The "In Catalog" field for projects is still bogus - and will eventually be removed - as the verification process is based on releases - not on projects.  

Companies that have processes that vet open source for internal use or for use within their products, should stick to OpenNTF code that is in the Catalog. Such code is more likely to meet their vetting requirements.  

A little background here. In 2009, we went through a process to bring some rigor to the OpenNTF. We wanted to provide a means where users could have some assurance that OpenNTF projects had been checked to ensure that the code was licensed in a manner that permitted them to use the code, did not have components with conflicting licenses, and was submitted by those who had authority to do so. But we didn't want to hobble the ability for contributors to post their submissions. So, after a couple of months of community discussions, we came up with an IP Policy with the following set of rules:

– All contributors have to be covered by a contribution agreement (based on the Apache contribution agreements).
– Contributions must be under either the Apache 2.0 software license, or one of the GPL3 family of licenses.  
– We would have 2 Catalogs, one for Apache-licensed projects, the other for GPL/LGPL/AGPL-licensed projects.  
– And of course the IP vetting process was established

We have moved slowly to enforce the policy – partly to ease the transition. First we established the Catalogs, and vetted many of the projects so that they could be placed into them. Second, the infrastructure was changed so that you could not post a release unless you were covered by a contribution agreement. And now we have made it easier to see if releases are in a Catalog.    

Over the next few months, more changes are coming to the OpenNTF project and release pages – including the ability to have private working areas for you and your team to work on a project. More on this in my next blog entry.  

New OpenNTF Project: Export to XLS, RTF, PDF and HTML

Niklas Heidloff | 2:42:14 AM Tuesday, May 8, 2012 | Full Story and Comments

As part of the XPages Development Contest sponsored by IBM business partner We4IT, Stephan Schramm and Christian Annawald have contributed a new project ITWU Exporter on XPages.

The project comes with a set of APIs to export data from Notes databases to XLS, RTF, PDF and HTML. These APIs are Java APIs that can be invoked from SSJS in XPages.

The project uses various other open source projects for the core export functionality:

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Watch the mini video to see the exporter in action.

Here is a screenshot of the JavaDoc:

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