Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 3: Creating User Interfaces

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 two courses in this series.

Objective

• Create UIs by using folders and navigators in Lotus Domino R5.
• Identify the features of the Lotus Domino R5 design element pages framesets and outlines.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Lotus Domino R5: UI Design Overview

• Identify the elements of the user interface of a Lotus Domino R5 application.
• Match the Lotus Domino R5 design elements with their features that are relevant to Web application development.
• Identify the features of a folder.
• Match the types of folders with their features.
• Create a folder.
• Set the properties of a folder.
• Enable soft deletion in a database.
• Create a view to store deleted documents.
• Identify the features of navigator.
• Set the properties of a navigator.
• Set database launch properties to display a navigator.
• Add graphics to a navigator.
• Add objects to a navigator.
• Add an action to an object in a navigator by using the Simple action(s) option.
• Add an action to an object in a navigator by using a formula.

Unit 2: New Lotus Domino R5 Design Elements

• Identify the differences between pages and forms.
• Identify the methods that can be used to display a page.
• Create a page by using the Design pane.
• Create a link on a page.
• Create a static window title by using the Programmer's pane.
• Hide a design element displayed in a page.
• Identify the features of framesets.
• Create a frameset by using the Design pane.
• Specify the content of a frame in a frameset.
• Modify the arrangement of frames within a frameset by using the buttons on the Work pane.
• Identify the features of an outline.
• Create an outline by using the Design pane.
• Arrange outline entries by using Indent Entry and Outdent Entry buttons in the Work pane.
• Match the outline properties with their descriptions.
• Embed an outline in a page.
• Embed a view in a page.
• Embed a view in a page that displays a single category of documents.
• Embed a folder pane in a form.
• Embed a navigator in a page.
• Embed a date picker in a page.

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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