Make Adobe Reader XI show scroll bars in Windows 8

If you have Windows 8 laptop with touch screen then you might run into an issue with your Adobe Reader XI like I did. Your Adobe Reader is configured (by default) to detect if you are using a touch screen and if you are then it will not show the scroll bars.

To show the scroll bars by default go to "Edit > Preferences". There select the "General" category and for "Touch Mode" select the option of "Never".

View all the event receivers for a SharePoint list from Windows PowerShell ISE

Trying out event receivers in SharePoint I wanted to see which event receivers I have attached to my list. From here and here I was finally able to get a small script which when run in Windows PowerShell ISE would give you just that.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell

$site = Get-SPSite -Identity "http://My_SharePoint_Site/"
$web = $site.RootWeb
$list = $web.Lists["<MY LIST>"]
$list.EventReceivers | Select assembly, name, type

The Add-PSSnapin command adds the SharePoint snap-in to current session so that you can use the commands like Get-SPSite. If you don't add that then you would end up with the error "The term 'Get-SPSite' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function…". Also once you run the command of Add-PSSnapin then you need not run it again and again for current session.

Beware of spam surveys for PayPal

Today I got an email from a very legitimate looking email ID survey@paypal.com which asked me to fill up a survey and in return I would get paid for it. I have a PayPal account and greed almost took me over until I noticed something odd. Below is the mail that was sent to me (emphasis mine).

Dear ABC XYZ,

In a continuing effort to provide our customers with the best possible payment experience, we randomly select customers like you to participate in surveys. Your feedback will help us to enhance your PayPal experience.

To complete the survey, simply click on the web address shown below (or copy the address into your browser). If you complete the survey, we will send you a check in the amount of $930 INR as a token of our appreciation for taking the time to share your opinions.

<URL>

Sincerely,

PayPal

If you look closely at the amount it says $930 INR. That's what prompted me to call up PayPal customer support and they confirmed this is a spoof mail and I (and you too) should not be responding to this mail.

Issue with Indic keyboard and SwiftKey on HTC One X

I recently updated my HTC One X with OTA Android 4.2.2 and HTC Sense 5. This new version comes with Indic (for Indian languages) and Vietnamese (don't know why was this added) keyboard. I prefer to use SwiftKey and have it installed on my phone. One issue that I found was that whenever my phone is rebooted ‒  either by me or some random crash ‒  my keyboard used to get changed from SwiftKey to Indic keyboard.

To let you know Indic keyboard is not the same as HTC Sense Input. Here's how it looks like.

Indic keyboard

Creating Web Part Page in SharePoint 2013

Creating a Web Part Page required you to follow just two simple steps in SharePoint 2010.

1. Go to Sites actions > More Options.

2. Select Web Part Page.

That’s it you are done. But SharePoint 2013 complicates this a little. So here’s what need to do if want to create a Web Part Page in SharePoint 2013.

Menu appearing in left side in Windows 8

I recently bought a Windows 8 PC and it had a weird issue (well what did you expect, that it would run flawlessly).

All my menus were being shown on left side to be precise on the bottom-left side, even the context menus.

Searching your contacts by Company name in HTC One X

Update 22 Dec 2013: This feature does not seem to be working in Sense 5 after I updated my HTC One X to Android 4.2.2.

While putting in contacts in my phone I generally put the Company name also. But to search by Company name you need to enable a setting which is not enabled by default in your People app of HTC One X.

Go to your People app and open the menu. Tap on "Settings".

Using dojo.query with IDs containing colon symbol

While working on my XSnippet to move between pages in a pager control using arrow keys I required to get elements based on pager ID. So I went with dojo.query. But selectors in dojo.query cannot contain characters like colon which XPage extensively uses for generating IDs.

So the code dojo.query("view:_id1:viewPanel1:pager1") will not work. To make it work you need to escape the : with \: or even better with \3A, for backward compatibility with IE.

I wrote a simple helper function escape colon characters from ID.

function escapeColon(controlID) {
    return controlID.replace(/:/g, "\\3A");
}

Writing to log.nsf via Formula, LotusScript or Java

While debugging @Formula code I was using a lot of @StatusBar command to output values in status bar to debug. But the status bar in Lotus Notes shows only around 20-30 last entries. I was looking for a way to write that information to my local log.nsf where I could see the entire trace and analyse it. That's when I ran into this post on Notes/Domino 8.5 forum. It says that by adding LogStatusBar=1 to your notes.ini all the messages that get printed to status bar will be written to log.nsf. And problem solved!

As this method writes every message printed in status bar to log, it works for any language running on client.

Functions and properties of the XSP object

Stephan Wissel has blogged about some useful functions of XSP obeject. But the list is not complete. So I decided to put the XSP object through my helper JavaScript function listPropsAndFunctions. Below is the list of whatever I could find. I would be updating this list with explanation of whatever properties and functions I am able to find from time to time.

_allowDirtySubmit

_dirty

_dirtyFormId

_eventNameHtmlToWidget

_listeningForDojo

_listeningForDojoOnload

_onLoadListeners

_submitValue

_submitValueSet

Getting properties and functions of JavaScript objects

I was looking for a way to get all the properties and functions for a particular JavaScript object. Looking around the web I found this discussion of StackOverflow which gave me my answer. I created a small helper function to which you pass your object and it spit out all its properties and function in the console. This is how it looks like:

function listPropsAndFunctions(object) {
    var o;
    for (o in object) {
        console.log((typeof object[o] == "function" ? "function " : "") + o);
    }
}

You may argue that content assist in IDEs already give you this information. But there are slight differences in implementation of JavaScript of each browser. Looking into the document object on Chrome I found a property webkitIsFullScreen, but on Firefox there is not corresponding property with name mozIsFullScreen (I am looking at Firefox 16).