I was looking for a solution to replace the standard view navigation by something more “stylish”. And the solution should be easy to implement.
I googled and came across an old article written by Bob Obringer ( The Ultimate Domino View Navigator ). His solution can be implemented with just a basic understanding of Domino Web Development.
I built it into an existing database in just a few minutes and the result is impressive.
The navigator can be customized using CSS. So jump over and download the needed files to “pimp” your web views 😉
Um, Am I wrong but I do not see the expand and collapse functionality returned in the view navigator or Bob Obringer?
That view navigator only works on FLAT views, notcategorized views.
So in a way you are mixing things up…;-)
I’m also a functionality-over-visual guy. The original Domino view has also a Search feature, which is one of the most powerful features in Domino – super fast and powerful. The only thing what the original Domino web view lacks are the page numbers and css, I think I need to make a feature request to IBM to have them there by default!
@Mika:
Good luck, the last feature requests I made resulted in a stupid “Wait for Notes 8” answer.
@Patrick:
I know that the original code only works for flat views, but I read in the comments that someone has a solution for categorized views.
@Patrick: Yes Bob’s solution works on flat views only. However with a little alteration you can make it work with categorized views as well. The principle to use ?ReadViewEntries to retrieve the number of entries applies to categorized too. The challenge: you need to compute pages depending on what category you open/close. So more math is needed.
@Mika: Adding the search to Bob’s template is rather easy. Just add one passthru form to it.
🙂 stw
Hello Eknori,
i want to download the the files but the link is broken.
Can you help me?? and send me the files via mail??
thank you
Chris