Category: Notes Designer

Are you annoyed having to click x-times to get to your properties/events?

I am…

but how about this:

Detach the properties and events views and place them on a separate monitor so that you always have them available. I use an external screen and have the properties/events views detached on my internal LCD.

right click header of the view in designer and select “Detached”

This way I don’t bother resizing the panel on the bottom every 10 seconds. I click a field or any other element and then I turn my head to look at my secondary screen and have immediate access to all my properties/events I need…

this would be even cooler if it would work with <alt><tab> but it doesn’t! (->IBM: do you listen/read?)

If you are a Domino designer I am 100% sure you are as frustrated as me when you double click any design element and it takes for ages for it to open.

Solution:
1. double click the design element
2. click on any other tab of a view..

usually the design element then opens immediately

BUT: be aware that you didn’t “single-click” first on another design element, cause that would cause that element to be opened 🙁

yours

iPinky7

Hi again

Here is an update on “easiest way to open design elements” which seemed to be very obvious..

In the other post (see link above) I wrote that the keyboard shortcut <ctrl><shift><r> does not always work when the focus is wrong.

but you can easily change the focus to the “Applications” view with another shortcut: <ctrl><F7>.
Actually <ctrl><F7> is the same used to switch focus in the client (see here)

So in the designer you would get a popup menu something like this:

Does it happend to you over and over again that you type the same lines of code for achieving simple stuff?

Happens to me several times a day.

Solution:
With Domino 8.5 designer you have it:

Open the view “Snippets”

are you frustrated with the BIG, I really mean B*I*G, navigation on the left-hand-side?
all those design element categories, you are constantly opening and closing categories or subcategories

Solution:
Use <ctrl><shift><r> and start entering the prefix of your element you are looking for (frm for forms, view or lup for views or lookup views, class for LS classes, agn for Agents, pg for pages etc…)

in fact I just figured out: views can’t be found: typing view will not yield anything. luckily you can enter *view or *lup to find all your lookup views.

You could even use something like *xyz*view to find a view containing xyz.

You can with <ctrl><F10> open the “menu” for the dialogbox, that way it’s also easy to switch/choose the working set from your keyboard

The only thing I miss here is the possibility to search for “aliases” too

too bad <ctrl><shift><r> is not enabled always. In the Navigate menu you can always access it but for some reason it’s not always bound to the key sequence 🙁 (open a Script Library and check the Navigate Menu)
but in such bad circumstances you could still use the accelerators: <alt><n> and <u>


I have reported this issue via feedback
report it too (<alt><h> and <s>) to increase the awareness of it on IBM side!