Since this is a Notes database on a Domino server, I figured the best way to get started would be with XPages. I don’t know XPages very well at all, but how hard could it be?

I have also chosen JQuery and JQuery Mobile as my framework. I’ve dabbled with these before so I’m most familiar with these, and that was really the only reason I chose them.

Note about the app: I’m not going crazy with features here, V1.0 will be a proof of concept.

Step 1 - Create the initial page.

The first page a user will see in version one is a list of all the customers. This turned out to be incredibly easy with XPages. After 10 minutes and a repeat control I ended up with this:

Here is all I have so far:

<xp:this.data>
 <xp:dominoView var="view1" databaseName=server/852!!test\crm.nsf" viewName="ALLCOMPANIES">
 </xp:dominoView>
</xp:this.data>
<ul>
	<xp:repeat var="vw" rows="30" value="#{view1}">
		<li>
			<a href="details.xsp?documentId=#{javascript:vw.getNoteID()}">
			<xp:text styleClass='companyName' escape="true" id="computedField1"
			 value="#{vw.fcftCompany_WB}">
			</xp:text>
			<br />
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField2"
				value="#{vw.faddAddress_SS}">
			</xp:text>
			<xp:br />
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField3"
				value="#{vw.faddAddress_SS_1}">
			</xp:text>
			<xp:br
				rendered="#{vw.faddAddress_SS_1!=''}" />
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField4" value="#{vw.faddTown_SS}">
			</xp:text>
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField5"
				value=",&#160;#{vw.faddCounty_SS}">
			</xp:text>
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField6"
				value="&#160;#{vw.faddPostcode_SS}">
			</xp:text>
			<xp:text styleClass='companyAddress'
				escape="true" id="computedField7"
				value=",&#160;#{vw.faddCountry_SS}">
			</xp:text>
			</a>
		</li>
	</xp:repeat>
</ul>

I know, it’s a bit basic, but in the next post I’ll show how Jquery Mobile is going to help with that.