Use JSMin when do web developing

I started to use JSLint and JSMin just couple weeks ago but now I have to say that everybody must use it.
Today I used JSMin and I have to say that In my case it saves ~22% of space (original size was 28kb and after minimization it was 22kb).

So, now when you are ready to put your JS libraries to productive server, use JSMin always! It is really cool (at least I think so :) )

JSLint
http://www.jslint.com/

JSMin
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

Create PDF / FDF in Lotus Notes using LS

I had task where I should create PDF file from template and fill fields by values from documents

So what did I do?

I spoke with my colleagues :-) they recommended to use FDF Toolkit For Windows, instead of iText approach that I used before, and I have to say that it is very cool approach, it is much better at least for me. Instead of generation new PDF file we just export data to FDF file and link it with PDF template and that's all, so our FDF will show data using PDF form/template. -> No Java required and now no non-supported libraries.

Here is an instruction how to do this:

• register FDFACX.DLL (in order to do that, I copied FdfTk.dll and FDFACX.DLL to windows\system32, but I believe there is better way)

 regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\FDFACX.dll  

• example of code now (it is from Adobe)

Using the FDF tooklit in LotusScript

 Sub Initialize  
 '  
 ' Set up for using the FDF Toolkit for ActiveX  
 '  
 Dim FdfAcX As Variant  
 Dim outputFDF As Variant  
 Dim sPdfFileName As String, sFdfFileName As String, sFilePath As String  
 Set FdfAcX = CreateObject("FdfApp.FdfApp")  
 Set outputFDF = FdfAcX.FDFCreate()  
 '  
 ' % REM  
 '  
 ' Change these paths to reflect your server environment  
 ' Ideally, you could use a Lotus Notes profile document to store this  
 ' information.  
 '  
 ' Below are the three options for storing the PDF that was discussed in  
 ' the documentation for this application.  
 '  
 ' Option 1 : UNC Directory Share  
 ' This option oddly asks if you would like to save on close.  
 '  
 ' sPdfFileName = "\\Mage\domdata\domino\html\pdf\panarama.pdf"  
 '  
 ' Option 2 : Store in a Lotus Notes Page element  
 '  
 sPdfFileName = "http://mage/pdf/panarama.nsf/PDFs/$file/panarama.pdf"  
 '  
 ' Option 3 : Store in the Domino HTML directory  
 '  
 ' REM %  
 '  
 ' sPdfFileName = "http://mage/pdf/panarama.pdf"  
 sFilePath = "d:\domdata\domino\html\pdf\tmp\"  
 '  
 ' Set up for getting Lotus Notes information  
 '  
 Dim session As New NotesSession  
 Dim contextDoc As NotesDocument  
 Dim dateTime As NotesDateTime  
 Dim tempNumber As Single  
 Dim rounded As Integer  
 Dim fileName As String  
 Set contextDoc = session.documentContext  
 '  
 8 Integrating Adobe Acrobat FDF  
 with Lotus Domino  
 ' This will create a random number between 0 and 100.  
 ' The number will give  
 ' us a good chance of not temporarily having the same file name in the tmp  
 ' directory at the same time. The file will briefly be in the tmp  
 ' directory,  
 ' attached to the Notes document and then deleted.  
 '  
 Randomize  
 temp = Rnd  
 rounded = Round((temp * 100), 0)  
 fileName = Cstr(rounded)  
 sFdfFileName = sFilePath & fileName & ".fdf"  
 '  
 ' FDFSetValue will set the value you pass it. See page 139 of the  
 ' FDF Toolkit Overview and Reference.  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "FirstName", contextDoc.FirstName(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MidInit", contextDoc.MidInit(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "LastName", contextDoc.LastName(0), False  
 '  
 ' Get the value of the date fields. The DateOnly property  
 ' returns a string.  
 '  
 Set dateTime = New NotesDateTime( contextDoc.HireDate(0) )  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "HireDate", dateTime.DateOnly, False  
 Set dateTime = New NotesDateTime( contextDoc.ModDate(0) )  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "ModDate", dateTime.DateOnly, False  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Address1", contextDoc.Address1(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Address2", contextDoc.Address2(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "City", contextDoc.City(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "State", contextDoc.State(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "ZipCode", contextDoc.ZipCode(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Country", contextDoc.Country(0), False  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MAddress1", contextDoc.MAddress1(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MAddress2", contextDoc.MAddress2(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MCity", contextDoc.MCity(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MState", contextDoc.MState(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "MZipCode", contextDoc.MZipCode(0), False  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "HomePhone", contextDoc.HomePhone(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "WorkPhone", contextDoc.WorkPhone(0), False  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Emer1Contact", contextDoc.Emer1Contact(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Emer1Phone", contextDoc.Emer1Phone(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Emer2Contact", contextDoc.Emer2Contact(0), False  
 outputFDF.FDFSetValue "Emer2Phone", contextDoc.Emer2Phone(0), False  
 '  
 ' Tell it which file we're writing to and do a save.  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFSetFile sPdfFileName  
 outputFDF.FDFSaveToFile sFdfFileName  
 '  
 ' Always close your open FDF files.  
 '  
 outputFDF.FDFClose  
 ADOBE FDF TOOLKIT  
 User Guide  
 9  
 '  
 ' This will attach the FDF file we just closed to our Notes document  
 ' and then delete it from the tmp directory.  
 '  
 Call MoveFdfToAttachment(contextDoc, sFdfFileName)  
 End Sub  
 Public Function MoveFdfToAttachment(doc As NotesDocument, fileName As  
 String) As Integer  
 '// move each attachment to a rich text field.  
 Dim attachItem As New NotesRichTextItem(doc, "fdfAttachment")  
 Dim attachObj As notesEmbeddedObject, newObjName As String  
 Call attachItem.EmbedObject(EMBED_ATTACHMENT, "", fileName, "")  
 Kill fileName  
 MoveFdfToAttachment = True  
 End Function  

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How to import data from Google Analytics to LN database?

I was trying to do such thing via Java API but get errors when run it. Did anybody do such thing?
Would be really interesting to see at least example!

check if Bookmark or Name is exists in Word/Excel application

I did not have tasks with export data from LN to word/excel/pdf for 1 years probably. My today's task was easy, I had to export data from LN to xml, processed it using xsl, walk through resulting xml and export everything to word/excel. Then I had to copy values from resulting xml to word/excel's temlpate using bookmarks (in excel it is names).

Here is an example how to check bookrmark/names in word/excel (because before I did not have experience with Excel's names)

excel approach I got from this link

Function NameExists(TheName as String, obj, formType as String) As Boolean

NameExists = False

Select Case formType
Case "word":
if obj.activedocument.Bookmarks.Exists(TheName) Then
NameExists = true
End If
Case "excel"
On Error Resume Next
NameExists = Len(obj.names(TheName).Name) <> 0
End Select

End Function

I'm looking for testing tools for LN. Does anybody know couple?

I'm interested in test tools that can automate testing of LN application.
Just found new one that I've never seen before. What do you think about it? Does anybody has experience with this tool? If somebody could share some experience about it would be great.

here is link to their product, there is also flash demo there.
http://smart-toucan.com/

Please advice if somebody has good approach for testing in LN.

p.s.
that's is not an advertisement. I just want to find at least 1 tool that can help us to do automate testing for LN application.