IBM Lotus Domino Designer 6 Overview for Improved Design Environment

1. Lotus Domino Designer 6 Overview Maureen Leland Software Architect IBM Lotus

2. Design environment improvements • New design elements - style sheets, file resources, data connection resources • New elements for page construction - layers, new field types • View enhancements • Design and runtime OLE control enhancements • Enhanced programmability Agenda

3. Quick Access User Interface Shading makes it easy to see which DB you are working with

4. Drag and Drop Bookmarks Folders

5. Design Element Folders • Custom folders to hold the elements you choose

6. Quickly access any Form Quick Scroll Access to Design Elements Currently working with the DB's views

7. More Information is displayed • Columns are sortable for all design elements (Added to Agents) • Edit properties for multiple design elements Design Element Views

8. See more information about your shared actions • Multiple editing sessions New View for Shared Actions

9. Cascading Style Sheets • Affect styling in both the Notes client and Web clients • Allow you to separate form from content • Style sheets can be shared across databases • Maintained and specified, but not created in Designer

10. Allow storage of any object in an nsf • HTML files can be included on a form or a page • Remember pass-through html now renders in the Notes client! • Managed and selected in just the same way as style sheets File Resources

11. Data Connection Resources • Integrate relational data directly into the application • Design-time integration • Browsing of metadata • Associate form fields with relational data

12. Easier, more precise placement of design elements • Use for: • Grouping design elements • Absolute positioning • Overlapping contents • Can be created in a Page, a Form or a Subform Layers

13. Embedded Editors • Create or view multiple documents from within a form • Preview documents selected from an embedded view See Welcome Pages in bookmark.nsf for examples

14. Embedded View Enhancements • Multiple views on a single page • Show action bars • Show selection margin • Show discussion threading • Show column headers • Transparent background Allows for Advanced application designs such as those for the Welcome Pages

15. A color field lets you display a color picker on a form. • The chosen color is stored in hexidecimal format. • For example, red is stored as 000000FF. Color Fields

16. Rich Text Lite Fields • Provides users with a fast way to add object into a field. • When the user clicks the helper icon, a dialog box appears which corresponds to the chosen element type. • The elements listed in the drop-down menu are the only elements the user is allowed to insert into the rich text lite field. • Possible elements: • Pictures • Shared Images • Attachments • Views • Date Picker • Shared Applets • Text • Ole Objects • Calendar • Inbox • Help • Clear

17. Table Enhancements Size Tabs Equally Indent First Tab • Control all options for Tab Labels

18. dfds • Column Colors

19. Background Images • Background Grids • Don't Show Empty Categories • View Margins • Column Total Colors • Customize "Twisties" with your own icons • Multiple column icons • Many new date/time format options New display options in Standard Views

20. Use a hide-when formula to display a subset of documents • Based on conditions in place when the view first displays • For example, to hide documents from a particular user, click the Advanced tab on the Column Properties box, check "Hide column if formula is true," and enter formula: @If(@Name([CN];@Username) = "John Smith") Hide-when Columns

21. User Customizable Views • Programmers no longer have to tweak the view design, satisfying all users with one design • End users can change order and visibility of all the view columns

22. Design Environment for OLE Objects • Property sheet interface • Alphabetical or categorized property views • Control properties and values exposed in property sheet

23. In R5, dragging an object always created an object • In 6, it now creates an attachment by default • If you want to choose the format, right-click drag • Attachments can be edited in place Other OLE-Related Changes

24. AutoComplete for @Functions and @Commands 2 3 • Completes code as you type • Shows parameter help 1

25. 1 3 4 AutoComplete for Lotuscript 2

26. Convert Notes Design to HTML and vice versa

27. Designer 6 distinguishes between the application of events to the Notes client and Web browser. • You code one JavaScript or LotusScript event for the Notes client and a separate JavaScript event for the Web browser. The Event Model

28. You can use the remote debugger to step through and debug LotusScript agents running on the server • The agent you want to debug must be running at the time that you start the remote debugging tool • Three Steps Involved: • 1. Enable remote debugging on the server • 2. Enable remote debugging in the agent • 3. Start the remote debugger Remote Agent Debugger

29. Looping • Using braces to delimit a remark: REM {comments} • Specify a text constant by enclosing characters in braces ({}) Example: Enter "Hello World" as {"Hello World"} instead of "\"Hello World\"" • List subscript operator to return an element of a list Example: To return element 2 of the Categories field: Categories[2] • Variables can be assigned new values as a formula progresses Example reassign "n" in a @While loop... n := 1; @While(n <= @Elements(Categories); @Prompt([OK]; "Category " + @Text(n); Categories[n]); n := n + 1) • Nesting assignment statements Example: FIELD CityUpper := @UpperCase(FIELD City := "London" ) • New and improved @Functions - @while and many more! New @Formula Features

30. This print dialog box lets you print source code from within the Programmer's pane • For formulas, simple actions, LotusScript, JavaScript, and Java (but not imported Java files) • Source... Current selection Current object • Languages... All objects Current language All languages Print Source Code

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