The document provides information about Bootstrap4XPages, a plugin that brings the Bootstrap front-end framework to XPages applications. It discusses what Bootstrap is, the benefits of using it, and how the Bootstrap4XPages plugin works. The plugin provides Bootstrap styling for XPages components out of the box. It can be installed on Domino servers and in Designer. The document demonstrates how to enable Bootstrap styling on an XPages application by selecting the Bootstrap4XPages library and theme. It also covers creating layouts, views, dialogs, and other application elements using Bootstrap styled XPages components. Custom themes and upcoming features are mentioned. Contributions to the open source project are welcomed.

1. Bootstrap4XPages
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June 17, 2014

2. Who We Are
• Our background is in creating tools for collaborative
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• Easy-to-use tools for developers and administrators
• 2300+ active customers, 47 countries
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• Entered mobile space in 2010 with Unplugged: easy
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10. Upcoming and Recorded Webinars
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We have two speakers from IBM in September:
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13. BOOTSTRAP4XPAGES WEBINAR
JUNE 17, 2014
MARK LEUSINK

14. Agenda
 Bootstrap; the world's most popular UI framework
 Bring Bootstrap to XPages with Bootstrap4XPages
 Installation, configuration & getting started
 Using Bootstrap4XPages
 Custom themes & plugins
 And demos!

15. Speaker intro
 Freelance consultant/ developer
 Web, XPages, Java, mobile, Unplugged
 OpenNTF board member and contributor
 IBM Champion
 Creator of www.bootstrap4xpages.com
 Collaborator on Bootstrap4XPages
 Original author: Phil Riand/ IBM

16. Oh… and I’m from Holland
(a.k.a. The Netherlands)
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17. What is Bootstrap?
 A set of UI elements available to (mobile) web
applications
 Empowers you, as a front-end developer, to
kickstart projects more efficiently and effective
 Makes your apps look good

18. What is Bootstrap? - popular
 Very popular in the web
developers community
 Number 1 project on GitHub
 68,000+ stars
 25,000+ forks
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Source: http://trends.builtwith.com/docinfo/Twitter-Bootstrap

19. What is Bootstrap? - in the box
 Carefully crafted CSS styles for
 Typography and navigation
 Common controls (buttons, input controls, tables)
 Layouts and grids
 With responsive features
 Icons
 Using the Glyphicon font
 JavaScript components
 Tabs, dialogs, tooltips, dropdown buttons/ menus
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20. What is Bootstrap? - under the hood
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21. What is Bootstrap?
 Relies on jQuery
 Support for IE8+
 Many add-ons available
 Custom themes
 New controls
 Code snippets (tip: http://bootsnipp.com for inspiration)
 Free & paid
 Version 3 built from the ground up
 Released in 2013
 Mobile first
 Responsive by default (optional in earlier versions)
 Available for free at http://getbootstrap.com/

22. Why use Bootstrap?
 Users are demanding a sleek and polished UI
 But we're developers, not designers...
 Consistent UI makes your applications easier to use
 Develop for mobile
 Responsive design
 Standardized look for all applications
 Deal with cross browser issues
 Remember: IBM OneUI, as implemented in the Extension Library,
is also a UI framework

23. How do we get Bootstrap in XPages?
 Download Bootstrap
 Download jQuery (1.x)
 Add the files to your application (nsf)
 Create an XPage theme referencing all Bootstrap files &
jQuery
 And deal with the issues
 
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24. Introducing Bootstrap4XPages
 (OSGi) Plugin to install once on your server / Designer client
 Bootstrap rendering for all XPages components
 Core and Extension Library
 Including the Dojo controls
 Provides the easiest Bootstrap integration mechanism to XPages
 Change the theme and your application is enabled
 Get all the resources (CSS, JavaScript, fonts) served from the core
runtime
 No resources have to be added within the NSF
 Participate in the XPages resource file aggregation

25. Introducing Bootstrap4XPages
 Demo

26. Introducing Bootstrap4XPages
 Global resources served by a single URL
 Theme files that include these resources and define the
components properties
 Directly sets classes/ styles on controls when sufficient
 Custom JSF renderer for more complex cases
 Organized in an hierarchy, (relatively) easy to inherit/ customize
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27. Introducing Bootstrap4XPages
 Support for multiple versions of Bootstrap
 2.3.1*, 2.3.2, 3.0.0 and 3.1.1
 Focus now on Bootstrap 3.x, but 2.3.2 is kept for compatibility
 Make it easy to create new Bootstrap specific components
 jQuery 1.8.2
 No longer in use, but still bundled:
 DBootstrap
 Dojo Bootstrap
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28. Installation – get the plugin
 Get the Bootstrap4XPages (OSGi) plugin from OpenNTF
 http://bootstrap4xpages.openntf.org
 Source code available on GitHub
 Or get the OpenNTF Essentials
 A set of ‘essential’ projects to be used for XPage development
 Bootstrap4XPages is part of the OpenNTF Essentials
 http://essentials.openntf.org/
 Delivered as an update site database

29. Installation – install the plugin
Deploy the plugin:
 On the Domino server (and Notes Client)
 Use an update site database (preferred) or copy the plug-in to the server
 Add the update site path to the notes.ini:
OSGI_HTTP_DYNAMIC_BUNDLES=updatesite.nsf
 In Domino Designer
 File > Application > Install > import the update site
 Make sure “Enable Eclipse plug-in install” is enabled in the preferences

30. Installation – local web preview
 Additional step needed to use Bootstrap4XPages with LocalWeb
Preview:
 Copy features/ plugins folder from:
<notesdata>/workspace/applications/eclipse
to:
<notesdata>/domino/workspace/applications/eclipse
 See “Implementing the XPage Extension Library” by Paul Calhoun
 http://www.slideshare.net/dominion/implementing-xpages-extension-
library
(I don’t like the local web preview: get a local dev server instead)
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31. Post-installation
 Check if the plugin was installed and loaded:
tell http osgi ss org.openntf
v
v

32. Demo: installation
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33. Two steps to enable Bootstrap
1. Enable the required XPage Libraries
[x] com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library
[x] org.openntf.xsp.bootstrap.library
2. Set the application theme
 bootstrapv3.1.1 (or bootstrapv3.1.1_3d)
 bootstrapv3.0.0 (or bootstrapv3.0.0_3d)
 bootstrapv2.3.2 (or bootstrap2.3.2r)
Important: these themes do NOT show up in the
dropdown, you’ll have to enter them yourself.

34. And a third…
 Set the DocType of your app to HTML5
 Not required, but recommended by Bootstrap for best compatibility
 Xsp Properties > Page Generation Properties
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35. Demo: first use
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36. Create your app: layout
 Bootstrap4XPages comes with it’s own
configuration object for the application
layout control
 Adds new configuration options:
 navbarInverted
 navbarFixed *
 pageWidth (full, fixed, fluid) *
 Demo
* Coming soon
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37. Create your app: navigation
 Use xe:navigator to generate a
Bootstrap-style menu
 Demo
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38. Create your app: view
 Standard (data) view controls add Bootstrap rendering to
your views automatically
 Demo
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39. Create your app: dialog
 xe:dialog from the Extension Library
uses a custom renderer in
Bootstrap4XPages
 Changes HTML output, classes,
JavaScript
 But you can still use the xe:dialog –
just as you are used too
 Demo
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40. Create your app: responsive features
Responsive design: the approach that suggests that design and development
should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size,
platform and orientation.
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/
 Bootstrap 3 is responsive by default
 Supported by Bootstrap4XPages in Banner (top navbar) and left column
 Configure using Bootstrap application layout config:
 collapseLeftColumn
 collapseLeftMenuLabel *
 collapseLeftTo *
 Demo

41. Best practices
 Avoid hard coding style classes/ styles in your pages
 Might break third party themes
 Use the components as they render as much as possible
 Use a custom theme when you want to assign specific styles to
components
 Leverage the extension library components instead of
straight Bootstrap/ jQuery
 Good example are Dialogs, as they are optimized and well tested
with the JSF lifecycle

42. Best practices
 Use the build from OpenNTF, not the source code, in
production
 The build has its own resources (CSS, JavaScript), thus provides
better performance
 You can use the resources from the plugin without using the theme(s)
 But that's not advised

43. Plugins: Select2
 Built-in to Bootstrap4XPages
 Adds 2 new controls to Designer:
 Select2 Picker for Combo-/ListBox
 Select2 Picker
 Value picker with support for
 Search
 Multi-value select (easier to use than a combobox)
 Remote data sources
 Templates
 Demo

44. Custom themes
 Bootstrap can be fully customized
to your own look & feel
 Change colors, fonts, sizes,
margins, etc
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45. Custom themes – using LESS/ SASS
 Uses LESS (and SASS)
 ‘CSS preprocessor’
 Think of it as ‘using variables in CSS’
 Not only: link color = red
 But also: primary color is red, automatically create gradient to a 30% darker color in the
navbar
 Using LESS (or SASS) is the proper way to customize
 Not a find and replace in theCSS
 Bootstrap source comes with the LESS/ SASS source files
 And a task-runner config that can automatically compile your CSS files
 See https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap#compiling-css-and-javascript
 Demo
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46. Custom themes - alternatives
 Get a pre-built theme from the Internet
 http://bootswatch.com
 Create a theme using a Bootstrap theme-roller web site
 http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ (no preview)
 http://stylebootstrap.info
 http://bootswatchr.com
 Demo using pre-build theme

47. Coming soon
 New release is currently being tested
 Hopefully released this/ next week
 New features
 Set page width model to use (fixed/ fluid/ full)
 Set label and position of collapsed left menu
 Added option to make the navbar static
 New base themes to be used with custom Bootstrap themes
 bootstrapv3_base, bootstrapv2_base
 jQuery upgraded to 1.11, Select2 upgraded to 3.4.6
 Improved picker layouts
 Fixes
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48. What’s next?
 Bootstrap 3.2 announced
 Scheduled for June 2014
 Support will be added to Bootstrap4XPages
 Ideas
 Support for more standard controls
 Integration of plugins (FontAwesome, pNotify, jQuery File Upload)
 But…
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49. We need your help!
 Feel free to help and contribute
 Fully open source, and accepts external contributors
 There are many ways to help, depending on your skills
 Add new XPages components
 Implement new Bootstrap releases
 Create, integrate and distribute themes
 Write documentation or demos
 Help testing
 Videos and slides on how to setup a dev environment:
 http://www.openntf.org/main.nsf/blog.xsp?permaLink=NHEF-9BF94B

50. Wrapping up
 Don't reinvent the wheel but rather consume the project
 It is more efficient than throwing Bootstrap in every NSF
 It is more manageable than copying the files into domino/data/html
 It takes the pain out of getting Bootstrap to work with XPage
 If you don’t like how the plugin handles it: you can always
override yourself using standard Bootstrap classes
<xp:button styleClass=“btn btn-primary btn-xs” />

51. References
 Bootstrap4XPages project on OpenNTF
 http://bootstrap4xpages.openntf.org/
 Bootstrap4XPages source code on GitHub
 https://github.com/OpenNTF/Bootstrap4XPages
 Webinar on Bootstrap4XPages
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAff5uNwhn0
 http://www.slideshare.net/philipperiand/bootstrap4-x-pages
 OpenNTF Essentials
 http://essentials.openntf.org
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EUrLfJcCQhY#t=12m00s
 Bootstrap4XPages – the site, not the plugin
 Source of information on using Bootstrap with XPages
 http://bootstrap4xpages.com/

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