Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 2: Application Development Fundamentals

Audience

This course series is for webmasters application developers and graphic designers with little or no exposure to Lotus Notes/Domino. Participants should have completed the first course in this series.

Objective

• Create a database in Domino Designer and identify the elements of the database.
• Automate and secure databases by using Domino Designer.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Database Development in Domino Designer

• Identify the item in the Domino Designer interface that is used to perform a specific task.
• Create a database.
• Create a form in an existing database by using the Design pane.
• Set the properties of a form in an existing database by using the context menu of the form.
• Match the types of fields in a form with their purposes.
• Add a field to a form.
• Set the properties of a field in a form by using the context menu of the field.
• Create a table in a form.
• Create a section in a form.
• Identify the guidelines for designing a form.
• Identify the type of view to be created in a database in a given situation.
• Create a view for the documents based on the forms in a database by using the Design pane.
• Set the properties of a column in a view.
• Set the properties of a view.
• Organize the documents in a view.
• Create a hierarchical view that displays response documents indented under their parent documents in a database.
• Create a database icon by using the Design pane.
• Create an About This database document for a database by using the Design pane.
• Create a Using This database document for a database by using the Design pane.
• Create an image resource for a database by using the Design pane.
• Create an image resource set in a database.

Unit 2: Database Design: Advanced Concepts

• Match the components used to automate a database with their uses.
• Match the predefined tasks that can be performed by an action in Domino Designer with their purposes.
• Create an action in a database form.
• Match the types of hotspots with their uses.
• Create an action hotspot in a form.
• Match the given tasks with the minimum ACL access levels that are required to perform the tasks.
• Identify the access options to be set for a user in a database ACL in a given situation.
• Match the user types in a database ACL with their uses.
• Set up a database ACL.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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