Navbar with dropdown menu from Notes view in Twitter Bootstrap (with XPages)

Introduction

Hey hey, sorry to bother you again with a post about using a Notes view in combination with Twitter Bootstrap.

In my previous post I was not sure about using nav-pills. I fear not all users will understand them. I assume that most users are common with a site header with navigational options. This navigation can be like tab bars (hihi watch some real old work) some with nested tabs in fancy drop down menus. Twitter Bootstrap have probably taken notice of this expected behavior and provided therefor the navbar component.

Implementation

I used the same conditions as in my previous post (Mark Leusink’s Bootstrap4XPages demo site and my Notes view:

 

Here is how the code on my XPage looks like:

<div class=”navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top”>
<div class=”navbar-inner”>
<div class=”container-fluid”>
<a data-target=”.nav-collapse” data-toggle=”collapse”
class=”btn btn-navbar”>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
</a>
<a href=”#” class=”brand”>
<xp:text escape=”true” id=”computedField1″ value=”#{javascript:@DbTitle()}”></xp:text></a>
<div class=”nav-collapse”>
<ul class=”nav”>
<li class=”dropdown”>
<a data-toggle=”dropdown” class=”dropdown-toggle” href=”#”>Site Index<b class=”caret”></b></a>
<xp:text escape=”false” disableTheme=”true” value=”#{javascript:getList()}” rendered=”true”></xp:text>
</li>
<li class=”active”>
<xp:link escape=”true” text=”Home” id=”link1″ value=”/index.xsp”></xp:link>
</li>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Static Link 1</a>
</li>
<li class=”divider-vertical”></li>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Static Link 2</a>
</li>
</ul>
<form action=”” class=”navbar-search pull-left”><input type=”text” placeholder=”Search” class=”search-query span2″ /></form>
<ul class=”nav pull-right”>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Static Link 3</a>
</li>
<li class=”divider-vertical”></li>
<li>
<a href=”#”>Static Link 4</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!– /.nav-collapse –>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Note: I had to set attributes for escape and disableTheme for the computed field otherwise the navbar would get messed up.

In the computed field I call a SSJS function that is similar to the one in the previous post:

function getList(){
var nav:NotesViewNavigator = database.getView(“$v-treeview-clean”).createViewNav();
var entry:NotesViewEntry = nav.getFirst();
if (entry !=null){
var countLevel:Integer = 0;
var curLevel:Integer;
var list = “<ul class=\”dropdown-menu\”>”;
while (entry !=null){
var edoc:NotesDocument = entry.getDocument();
entryValue = entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString();
var col:NotesDocumentCollection = edoc.getResponses();
curLevel = entry.getColumnIndentLevel();
if (col.getCount()>0){
//prep for new entry with response(s)
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel ;
var closure = “”
for (var i=0; i<(difLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure;
list = list + “<li class=\”dropdown-submenu\”>”;
list = list + “<a href=\”#\”>” + entryValue + “</a>”;
list = list + “<ul class=\”dropdown-menu\”>”;
//increase counter
countLevel = curLevel + 1;
}
else{
if(curLevel==countLevel){
list = list + “<li><a href=\”#\”>” + entryValue + “</a></li>”;
}
else if(curLevel<countLevel){
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel ;
var closure = “”
for (var i=0; i<(difLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
countLevel = curLevel;
}
else {
//
}
}
var tmpentry:NotesViewEntry = nav.getNext(entry);
entry.recycle();
entry = tmpentry;
}
//final closure, last entry could be response doc
var closure = “”
for (var i=0; i<(countLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
//closure nav nav-list
list = list + “</ul>”;
return list;
}
else{
return “no documents found”;
}
}

C’est tout!

Result

Here is how the result looks like for desktop:

 

Reflections

Not bad for something “out of the box”!

I placed the “Site Index” at the beginning because it appears that the expanding of the nested lists continues to the right, even when it has reached the end of your screen 😕 There is the option to set the class for nested list to dropdown-submenu pull-left but I think it will be odd if you collapse one level open to the right and the next to the left.

Mobile users

Mobile users will find it difficult accessing the nested lists as the following image demonstrates:

 

Only the first 7 entries seem to become displayed, so when you open nested lists the items below just get pushed away. Luckily they return when you close the nested lists.

Alternative

The options for providing deep-level navigation seem to be a bit limited in Twitter Bootstrap. an alternative might be a collapsible tree menu for TB which you can find an example described here.

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Dropdown menu from Notes view in Twitter Bootstrap (with XPages)

Introduction

OK, so I was a bit unsatisfied with the navigation list in my previous post. The nav-list component seems not to be destined to contain too many category sub levels.

Dropdowns

Toggleable, contextual menu for displaying lists of links.

Pills

I am not sure how you would describe pills in Twitter Bootstrap but to me they look more like buttons you build a navigation with.

Implementation

Again I used Mark Leusink’s Bootstrap4XPages demo site. As source for my documents I am re-using the same view from my previous post:

I found an example code for nesting lists on Fiddle and modified it a bit to my needs.

I display the results via a computed field that looks as followed:

<xp:text escape=”false” id=”computedField1″ value=”#{javascript:getList()}” ></xp:text>

The function getList() is very similar to the one in my previosu post and looks as followed:

function getList() {
var nav: NotesViewNavigator = database.getView(“$v-treeview-clean”).createViewNav();
var entry: NotesViewEntry = nav.getFirst();
if (entry != null) {
var countLevel: Integer = 0;
var curLevel: Integer;
var list = “<div class=\”dropdown\”>”;
list = list + “<ul class=\”nav nav-pills\”>”;
list = list + “<li class=\”dropdown active\” id=\”accountmenu\”>”;
list = list + “<a class=\”dropdown-toggle\” data-toggle=\”dropdown\” href=\”#\”>Home</a>”;
list = list + “<ul class=\”dropdown-menu\”>”
while (entry != null) {
var edoc: NotesDocument = entry.getDocument();
entryValue = entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString();
var col: NotesDocumentCollection = edoc.getResponses();
curLevel = entry.getColumnIndentLevel();
if (col.getCount() > 0) {
//prep for new entry with response(s)
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel;
var closure = “”
for (var i = 0; i < (difLevel); i++) {
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure;
list = list + “<li class=\”dropdown-submenu\”>”;
list = list + “<a href=\”#\” tabindex=\”-1\”>” + entryValue + “</a>”;
list = list + “<ul id=\”” + entryValue + “\” class=\”dropdown-menu\”>”;
//increase counter
countLevel = curLevel + 1;
} else {
if (curLevel == countLevel) {
list = list + “<li><a href=\”#\”>” + entryValue + “</a></li>”;
} else if (curLevel < countLevel) {
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel;
var closure = “”
for (var i = 0; i < (difLevel); i++) {
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
countLevel = curLevel;
} else {
//
}
}
var tmpentry: NotesViewEntry = nav.getNext(entry);
entry.recycle();
entry = tmpentry;
}
//final closure, last entry could be response doc
var closure = “”
for (var i = 1; i < (countLevel); i++) {
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
//closure nav nav-list
list = list + “</ul></li></ul></div>”;
//closure well sidebar-nav

return list;
} else {
return “no documents found”;
}
}

Here is what the result looks like:

Alternative

The example above looks nice but I am not sure what the purpose of nav-pills are? (don’t ask a Dutch the pills Q)  I guess users would expect site navigation to be in a navigational bar, so expect another post on the nav-bar component.

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Navigation list from Notes view in Twitter Bootstrap (with XPages)

Introduction

In my previous post I demonstrated how you create breadcrumbs from Notes view in Twitter Bootstrap. A typical Notes application contains an outline (I assume you don’t the Navigator design element anymore). In this post I demonstrate how to create something similar in Twitter Bootstrap, a Nav List.

Nav Lists

A Nav list is a simple and easy way to build groups of nav links with optional headers. They’re best used in sidebars like the Finder in OS X. You can nest nav-lists and then they come quit close to categorized or hierarchical structured documents (e.g. parent & response).

Implementation

As  a start database I used Mark Leusink’s Bootstrap4Xpages demo site which you can download here.

As source I am also using a similar view as I used in my previous post. Here is how it looks like:

I found an example code for nesting lists on Fiddle. Note that you can extend nav-list with mouse over behavior but I fear for mobile phones and tablets this will be a crime.

I display the results via a computed field that looks as followed:

<xp:text escape=”false” id=”computedField2″ value=”#{javascript:getNavList()}”></xp:text>

The function getNavList() looks as followed:

function getNavList(){
var nav:NotesViewNavigator = database.getView(“$v-treeview-clean”).createViewNav();
var entry:NotesViewEntry = nav.getFirst();
if (entry !=null){
var countLevel:Integer = 0;
var curLevel:Integer;
var list = “<div class=\”well sidebar-nav\”><ul class=\”nav nav-list\”>”;
while (entry !=null){
var edoc:NotesDocument = entry.getDocument();
entryValue = entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString();
var col:NotesDocumentCollection = edoc.getResponses();
curLevel = entry.getColumnIndentLevel();
if (col.getCount()>0){
//prep for new entry with response(s)
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel ;
var closure = “”
for (var i=0; i<(difLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure;
list = list + “<li>”;
list = list + “<a href=\”#\” data-toggle=\”collapse\” data-target=\”#” + entryValue + “\”>” + entryValue + “</a>”;
list = list + “<ul id=\”” + entryValue + “\” class=\”collapse in\”>”;
//increase counter
countLevel = curLevel + 1;
}
else{
if(curLevel==countLevel){
list = list + “<li><a href=\”#\”>” + entryValue + “</a></li>”;
}
else if(curLevel<countLevel){
var difLevel = countLevel – curLevel ;
var closure = “”
for (var i=0; i<(difLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
countLevel = curLevel;
}
else {
//
}
}
var tmpentry:NotesViewEntry = nav.getNext(entry);
entry.recycle();
entry = tmpentry;
}
//final closure, last entry could be response doc
var closure = “”
for (var i=1; i<(countLevel); i++){
closure = closure + “</ul></li>”
}
list = list + closure
//closure nav nav-list
list = list + “</ul>”;
//closure well sidebar-nav
list = list + “</div>”;
return list;
}
else{
return “no documents found”;
}
}

In order to make it look nice embed the computed field in div element and give it a span class.

Below you see the final result:

 

 

You notice directly an obvious problem: the long title references which are typical for Notes documents.

Alternative

Twitter Bootstrap offer other alternatives which might be more suitable for transforming Notes views. And example is the dropdown. This you can extend with the dropdown JavaScript plugin.

Point for improvement

A class I did not use for the LI element is nav-header. This gives a nice outstanding header, which are great for categorized views.

A class I did not use for the LI element is active which highlights a list item. When using the nav-list on documents opened via an XPage I guess it is best practice to add the class name when the document is ready on the client.

The HREF attribute is not computed but this can be extracted from the viewentry.

Performance. The view above contains very little documents. I still have to test it with larger databases. Some examples where I want to use the nav-list contain more than 15000 documents in the view. I wonder how much I can use sessionScope or place the HTML in a profile document. Any suggestions here are welcome.

Tools used

Beside DDE is used heavily NotePad++ to check the generated HTML.

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Breadcrumbs from Notes view in Twitter Bootstrap (with XPages)

Long long long time ago I wrote how to create breadcrumbs in Notes and on the Web with help of JQuery. In case you are interested using Twitter Bootstrap with XPages chances are you want to provide similar navigational options for your beloved users.

The code below demonstrates how to achieve this.

<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var=”currentDocument” formName=”Document”></xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>

<xp:text escape=”false” id=”computedField1″
value=”#{javascript:getBreadCrumb()}”>
</xp:text>

and the SSJS function looks like:

function getBreadCrumb(){
var nav:NotesViewNavigator = database.getView(“$v-treeview”).createViewNav();
var doc:NotesDocument = currentDocument.getDocument();
if (nav.gotoEntry(doc)) {
var entry:NotesViewEntry = nav.getCurrent();
var list = “”;
list = “<li>” + entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString() + “</li>” + list;
while (nav.gotoParent(entry)){
entry = nav.getCurrent();
list = “<li>” + entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString() + “<span class=\”divider\”>/</span></li>” + list;
}
return “<ul class=\”breadcrumb\”>” + list + “</ul>”;
}
return “no docs found”
}

The Notes view $v-treeview has already href references in the column where I collect the information from:

Don’t forget to set the Display options for Web for the form. I select the form that contains the computed text that calls the getBreadCrumb() function.

Here is how the view looks like in the browser:

And here the result when I open a document:

Please leave a note when you have suggestions for improvement OR if you have code to put view info into a nav list to create a collapsible menu.

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Download: Twitter Bootstrap in Domino Blog

Have you sometimes the feeling that in case you know too much it may be used against you?

Recently I posted how to include Twitter Bootstrap in the IBM Domino Blog template.  Some time ago I blogged frequently about administrating that same Blog application.

From my Twitter Bootstrap post I received some questions from people for help so the easiest way to assist would be to make an example application available for downloading. The NSF contains all the documents that are needed to utilize (or get started with) Twitter Bootstrap within a Domino blog.

I also added some sample blog posts and link documents that refer to websites for education and resources (themes).

Download

Here you can download the example:  link.

Instructions

• Extract the file.
• Sign the application with proper ID.
• Apply proper ACL settings.
• Open the Configuration document and apply correct settings.
• Launch the application in browser.
  • In case the HTML layout is rendered properly I suggest to save ALL documents under HTML Templates section.

Good luck!

Screenshots

Homepage

Document

A document list (~ Notes view)

Mobile display

Adding Twitter Bootstrap to the IBM Domino Blog template

Our current design layout for a blog application was mainly based on the ‘by default’ design from the ‘early days’. A three column layout with a header and footer section.

(I guess you recognize this)

All nice wrapped in a HTML table to structure the layout. Maybe not the best and convenient solution, but quiet ‘solid’ compared with CSS layouts.

Nevertheless users were complaining, mainly because they import large images, which look nice on large screens, but not so nice on smaller ones. In such cases the right column was only visible when scrolling.

We have been so nice to add some corporate design guidelines flavours to the design, so users can recognize themselves when publishing within and beyond our corporate walls.

I guess we are talking now years ago, in the days that there were no mobile visitors with smartphones and tablets.

Time to move-on!

Since I noticed some buzz in the collaboration community around Twitter Bootstrap and responsive web design I decided to take a look around to see if we could bring the Domino template to the next level.

I did not take so much time to compare Twitter bootstrap to other frameworks (I leave that up to the pro’s) but after taking a look around, this framework seemed to be pretty solid and includes some other valuable components (which do not win from our oneUI components!).

Here is a summary how I implemented Twitter Bootstrap.

• Update the Page  Templates documents to support the grid layout.

Here an example how most Page Templates look like (this is code for the homepage)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<body data-spy=”scroll” data-target=”.bs-docs-sidebar”>

<$DXTemplateBlock Name=”HTMLTop”$>
<$DXTemplateBlock Name=”Banner”$>
<div class=”container container-body”>
<div class=”row-fluid”>
<div class=”span3″>
<$DXTemplateBlock Name=”LeftSideBar”$>
</div>
<div class=”span9″>
<$DXContent$>
</div>

</div>
</div>
<$DXTemplateBlock Name=”HTMLBottom”$>

</body>
</html>

As you can see I have choosen for a ‘2 column layout’. Basically because I did not get the ‘holy 3 column’ layout properly established (with a responsive design). If you got the proper solution, please drop a line in the comments..

• Update the Block Template documents.

Here is the code for my ‘top navbar’ section:

<head>
<link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”../dx/favicon.ico/$file/favicon.ico” />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″ />
<title><$DXTitle$></title>
<!– HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements –>
<!–[if lt IE 9]>
<script src=”http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js”></script&gt;
<![endif]–>
</head>

<!– Navbar ================================================== –>
<div class=”navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top”>
<div class=”navbar-inner”>
<div class=”container”>
<button type=”button” class=”btn btn-navbar” data-toggle=”collapse” data-target=”.nav-collapse”>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
<span class=”icon-bar”></span>
</button>
<a class=”brand” title=”<$DXTitle$>” href=”#”><img src=”../dx/logo.gif/$file/logo.gif” border=”0″></a>
<div class=”nav-collapse collapse” id=”topnav”>
<ul class=”nav”>
<li class=””><a href=”#”>Home</a></li>
<li class=””><$DXLogin$></li>
<li class=””>
<$DXAdmin$>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

The HTML5Shim code is needed to insert the HTML5 header and footer elements, which IE7 does not support.

Here is the code for my ‘header section’:

<!– Subhead ================================================== –>
<header class=”jumbotron subhead” id=”overview”>
<div class=”container”>
<div class=”row”>
<div class=”span3″ style=”margin-top:20px;”><img id=’id_photo’ class=’left’ src=’../dx/profileNoPhoto.png/$file/profileNoPhoto.png’ alt=’logo’ title=’logo’ height=’51’ width=’51’ /></div>
<div class=”span6″>
<h3><$DXTitle$></h3>
<h5><$DXDescription$></h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</header>

As you can see, you really need that HTML5Shim code here!

Here is the code for my ‘left column’ containing the search bar and navigational links (tag cloud, recent entries):

<!– Docs nav ================================================== –>
<div class=””>
<form class=”search” style=”margin:10px 0 0 0;” title=”Search” method=”get” id=”searchForm” action=”javascript:doSearch(”,”,”,”);”>
<input title=”Search” type=”text” alt=”Search” style=”width:180px;” value=”Search” name=”s” id=”Query” onblur=”if(this.value==”) this.value=’Search’;” onfocus=”if(this.value==’Search’) this.value=”;” />
<input type=”image” src=”../search.gif” title=”Search” alt=”Search”/>
</form>
</div>

<div>
<h4>Hot Topics</h4>
</div>
<ul class=”nav nav-list bs-docs-sidenav”>
<$DXHighlighted$>
</ul>
<div>
<h4>Tags</h4>
</div>
<div class=”tagCloud”>
<ul><$DXTagCloud$></ul>
</div>

<div>
<h4>Latest entries</h4>
</div>
<ul class=”nav nav-list bs-docs-sidenav”>
<$DXRecentSubjects$>
</ul>
<br/>

I wonder how I could get this column BELOW the second, content column, when the media queries kick in for e.g. smaller devices. I have not find out yet how to do this (again you may contribute here to improve my design)…

Then my ‘main / content column’:

<div id=”content”>

<a id=”mainContent” name=”mainContent”></a>

<div id=”entries” class=”entry”>

<div class=”page-header”>
<h3><$DXSubjectLink$></h3>
<p class=”pull-right” width=”80″ height=”80″ alt=”<$DXAuthor$>”/><$DXAuthorImageLink$></p>
<h6><$DXAuthor$> &nbsp;<span class=”date”><$DXLocaleLongDate$> <$DXTime$></span></h6>
<p style=”font-size:0.9em;”><img id=’id_photo’ src=’../dx/tag_blue.png/$file/tag_blue.png’ alt=’tags’ title=’tags’ height=’16’ width=’16’ /><$DXCategory$></p>
</div>
<p><$DXItemContent$></p>
<h4>Comments [<$DXCommentCount$>]</h4>
<p><$DXInlineComments$></p>
<commentblock>
<ul class=”actions inlinelist”>
<li class=”first”><$DXInlineCommentLink$></li>
</ul>
</commentblock>
<br/>
</div>

</div>

Nothing strange here. Therefore a preview:

Finally the footer section. This contains now mainly the navigational links that were displayed in the right column. For performance I load the JQuery and Bootstrap scripts at the end:

<!– Footer ================================================== –>
<footer id=”bottom-nav” class=”footer”>
<div class=”container”>
<p class=”pull-right”><a href=”#”>Back to top</a></p>

<div class=”row”>
<div class=”span3″>
<h4>Feeds</h4>
<ul class=”footlink”>
<li><img src=”../dx/Feed.png/$file/Feed.png” border=”0″><$DXRSS$></li>
<li><img src=”../dx/Feed.png/$file/Feed.png” border=”0″><$DXRSSComments$></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class=”span3″>
<h4>Blog Roll</h4>
<ul class=”footlink”>
<$DXLinks$>
</ul>
</div>
<div class=”span3″>
<h4>Recent</h4>
<ul class=”footlink”><$DXRecentSubjects$></ul>
</div>
<div class=”span3″>
<h4>Archive</h4>
<ul class=”footlink”><$DXMonths$></ul>
</div>
</div>

<p><$DXCopyright$></p>
</div>
</footer>
<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js”></script&gt;
<script src=”bootstrap.min.js/$file/bootstrap.min.js”></script>

Stylesheets

I noticed that default a stylesheet called global.css is loaded (I am not sure where that comes from, but I see it in the page source – please get me some proper system documentation, IBM).

So in this stylesheet I load Bootstrap and it’s responsive part:

/* First, pull in Bootstrap’s stylesheet */
@import url(bootstrap.min.css/$file/bootstrap.min.css);
@import url(bootstrap-responsive.min.css/$file/bootstrap-responsive.min.css);

/*
Custom Blog Stylesheet
*/
/* Now the custom styles */

body{
font-size:0.8em;
font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(‘../dx/grid-with-white.png/$file/grid-with-white.png’);
background-repeat:repeat scroll 50%;
}

For the top navbar we have guidelines to use a gradient style. I noticed that IE, Firefox and Safari (remember our mobile target) behave a bit different here so I stated:

.navbar-inverse .navbar-inner {
overflow:auto;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#f8f8f8, endColorstr=#e1e1e1);
-ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#f8f8f8, endColorstr=#e1e1e1)”;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(rgba(245, 245, 245, 0.6), rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.6)) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#f8f8f8), to(#e1e1e1));
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
color: #555555;
}

For the footer we use a gradient image:

#bottom-nav{
font-size:0.9862em/1.5em Verdana,sans-serif;
font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;
background-color:#E1E1E1;
background-image:url(‘../dx/footer-grid.png/$file/footer-grid.png’);
background-repeat:repeat scroll 50%;
}

Before having the HTML5Shim script applied IE7 refused to load an image for the background. Took some time to have that figured out.

Some final thoughts

Am I happy? For sure! In less than a day I transformed the blog application into a compatible site for mobile devices. No data migration to any new system/application or whatever!

Users can continue to work off-line (still a killer feature) just as they are writing a simple mail message. Import pictures taken at site visits all around the world and share it with their colleagues (occasional we notice also pictures from company parties, birthdays and social celebrations).

Blog owners can still modify the look & feel of any blog application, without disturbing anything for other blog applications. I heard stories of vendors that do not recommend to modify the common page of their collaboration platform, duh!

It would be nice if IBM would lift up the design of the DOMINO blog template to 2012 (2013 is also fine for me) with XPages and connection points to other social services.

If not, at least they can provide a complete, proper documentation of the application, so we understand what we implement in our environment. But this last request seems like ‘shouting to the wind’ (a Dutch saying).

Note: this was my first encounter with Twitter Bootstrap, so suggestions for improvement are more than welcome!

Cheers!