While reading through the presentation from the “Introduction to DXL”-session (AD212) by Dick Annicchiarico from Lotusphere 2005 I saw the below screenshot.
Am I the only one not having the “Viewer” or “Transformer” menuitems in my “Tools…DXL” menu in Domino Designer? I only have the “Exporter” menuitem… 🙁
Just wondered if anyone who sat in on the presentation knows whether you have to install “something extra” to see the menuitems.
I’ve wondered this before too. I’m running the 6.5.2 client, and only see the Exporter option.
The help file goes on about other utilities like Transformer, but not what to do if they’re not available!
If you set Internet Explorer as your webbrowser in your locationdocument you will get the viewer and transformer options.
I am running the 6.0.3 client, and I see all three options. Just checked my version 7.0 and all three options are avaiable here too.
Just found this via ldd:
2. Check your location document to make sure your Internet Browser field is set to “Notes with Internet Explorer” or “Internet Explorer.”
Restart your client and the missing options will appear.
I’m running V7 and all three are there.
That’s odd. I have the same 3 as in the slide. 6.54 on WinXP. I wonder, since you two are Java geeks and I’m not, if maybe it has to do with which JRE is configured?
I actually had to check the date stamp in the post to make sure you and Ben weren’t having a little April Fools’ Day joke. All the viewer does is launch IE, but the Exporter lets you pick design elements and an XSL file to transform them with, which seems handy.
Not sure if there are other reasons for this, but I did have the same problem last fall. Turns out I had Firefox identified as my default browser in my Location doc.
I changed the default browser back to IE and these two choices returned.
Do you think maybe Notes uses the Microsoft xml thingy for the transformations? 😉
Hope this helps…
I have come across this a while ago, too. You only see these entries if you have selected IE (or Notes with IE) as your internet browser in the location document (requires IE 5.01 or later according to Designer help).
Aha. Andrew B has hit the nail on the head: the DXL utilities must be using IE’s XML engine to do their work.
Oh well. Thanks for the tip!
There is no technical reason why it couldn’t have also been implemented for Firefox. It has XML “thingies” too.
I had already accepted that those menu entries seemd to come and go as they wanted…
At least (if anybody is interested) I could post a tipp, how you can easily preview your design elements in Firefox while keeping IE as the standard browser in your location document!?!
I would like to read the presentation. can you send me a copy to:
info@quintessens.com
Thanks!