Cleaning a Notes Web template: the Discussion template
I did the same as when cleaning up the Document library template. Interesting enough, there's a talk going on at Bob Balaban's blog on who actually uses these templates. Most people agree that their web interface is not usable without cleaning them up.
Summary of the clean-up
- I removed the outer frameset.
- I inserted a $$HtmlHead field in most of the forms to include a stylesheet and a JavaScript file.
- All the applets (except the RichText for FireFox) are now gone.
- I used some real sneaky JavaScript to recycle the Notes actions and make them CSS styled.
- I replaced the $$Return (shared field) to get rid of the "Thank you".
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I did it in less than an hour, so use at your own risk. But nevertheless: enjoy.
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08/08/2007 08:48:12, Patrick Kwinten
I have realy a problem with most of the default templates used for web purposes. No wonder why OpenNTF has alternatives for these templates...
05/09/2007 20:04:52, Lee Salzman
Hi Michel,
I like your clean up but am having trouble with the views rendering correctly (see internet1.eapps.com/zephyr/distest.nsf). The category headings are aligned too far from their twisties and the response docs are full of funky padding. I changed the css #viewbody table table width from 0 to 100% but that is not enough. Please email me back and let me know what I can do to fix this.
05/09/2007 20:57:54, Michel Van der Meiren
Hello Lee. The views not rendering correctly: that's a known fact. In order to have the nice stripes, I had to put the table at 100% width, which makes the table cells stretch. Adding more columns to the view will improve the situation. One tip: when you take over the body onload event as you do on some forms, you should add G.init() as last line in your inline body onload JavaScript. I'm not sure what you mean by 'funky padding'.
06/09/2007 08:49:01, Lee Salzman
Funky padding==stretching. I am adding more columns to the right and they don't seem to make a difference. I just might have to put up with a 50% width.
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