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- Open the Eclipse package explorer (Windows -> open view)
- Edit to you database -> WebContent -> WEB-INF -> xsp.properties
- Add the following line:

xsp.html.doctype=<!DOCTYPE ...>


Set the DOCTYPE as you like.
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Useful formulas and code snippets
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Here are some various snippets.

Get the current username


Use 
session.getEffectiveUserName()
to the the name of the user who is logged on.
Use @Name() to convert it for exampel to a CN name:

@Name("[CN]", session.getEffectiveUserName())

Check if a user contains a certain role


context.getUser().getRoles().contains('[RoleName]');

Redirect to another XPage


context.redirectToPage("Page.xsp")


Reload a XPage every x seconds


in "beforePageLoad" event of the XPage:

var r = facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse();
r.setHeader("Refresh", "1");


OR as meta tag: in "all properties" of the XPage -> resources -> add "metaData" with:

- content = 1
- httpEquiv = Refresh
- name = Refresh
- rendered = true


TimeDate handling

Set current datetime to a field in a document


var dt:NotesDateTime = session.createDateTime("Today");
dt.setNow();
doc.replaceItemValue("created", dt);

Get only the time of a datetime value


var nw = @Now();
return nw.toTimeString()

String handling

Replace all occurrences of one string by another


Use string.replace(searchstring, replacestring), this replaces all occurrences.
There seems to be a problem with the backslash \, this does not work:

s = s.replace("\\", "/")


The \ is only replaced once.
Workaround: use @ReplaceSubString(s, "\\", "/").

Formatting numbers

formatting with grouping and fixed fraction number


You want a number of for example 1000000,4 to format with thousand-grouping and two fraction numbers for the de language:

	locale = new Locale("de");
	return I18n.toString(v, "###,###.00", locale );


Caution when converting a string to a number


If you try to convert a value from getComponent(..).getValue() to number with the Number() function the XPage crashes.
The reason is that getComponent(..).getValue() returns a java.lang.string, but Number() does only work with JavaScript strings.

Use this workaround:

var v = getComponent("field").getValue();
v = new String(v);
i = Number(v);


Code about URLs


moved to Work with URLs

Changing DOCTYPE


Since 8.5.1 you can change the doctype of the rendered HTML.
See http://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/d6plinks/DSLH-834QUN
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