Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 4: Making Your Application Run

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 three courses in this series.

Objective

• Identify the object-oriented hierarchy for Domino objects.
• Identify the various rules while writing formulas.
• Identify the different type of agents.
• Create actions agents special hotspots and dynamic window titles.
• Identifying creating and using shared resources in Lotus Notes.
• Identify the guidelines that help to run formulas effectively and help you identify the Document State.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Application Development: An Introduction

• Label the parts of the integrated development environment (IDE) in Domino Designer with their functions.
• Match the elements of an object with their functions.
• Sequence the objects in a hierarchy for a specific scenario.
• Identify the programming languages that can be used in Domino Designer in a specific scenario.
• Match the field events for which you can write formulas in Domino Designer with their functions.
• Match the form events for which you can write formulas in Domino Designer with their functions.
• Match the view events for which you can write formulas in Domino Designer with their functions.
• Match the field types in Domino Designer with their functions.
• Match the reserved fields in Domino Designer with their functions.

Unit 2: Programming in Domino

• Identify the lexical elements in the Formula language.
• Identify the statements that follow the syntax rules for writing formulas in the Formula language.
• Identify the rules to be followed for using variables in the Formula language.
• Identify the rules to be followed for using constants in the Formula language.
• Identify the order of evaluation for the formula statements in the Formula language.
• Write formulas in Domino Designer by using Online Help in a database.
• Write a function in the Script area that performs a string manipulation for a specific task.
• Identify the If statement that performs a logical operation for a specific task.
• Write a function in the Script area that performs a date-time operation for a specific task.
• Identify the arithmetic function statement that evaluates to a specific value.
• Identify the list function statement that evaluates to a specific value.
• Identify the data conversion function statement that performs a specific task.
• Identify the special function statement that performs a specific task.
• Write a command in the Script area to perform a specific task.

Unit 3: Automation in Applications

• Identify the features of agents in Domino Designer.
• Create a manual agent.
• Create a scheduled agent by using the design pane in Domino Designer.
• Create an action as a button on the Action bar in Domino Designer.
• Create computed text in a form.
• Create a hotspot button in a form.
• Create an action hotspot in a form.
• Create a dynamic window title for a form by using the Window Title form event in Domino Designer.

Unit 4: Shared Resources: Programming

• Match the shared resources with their uses in Domino Designer.
• Create a shared field in a form by using the design pane in Domino Designer.
• Insert a shared field in a form by using the design pane in Domino Designer.
• Create a shared action in a database by using the design pane in Domino Designer.
• Insert a shared action in a database.
• Create a subform in a database by using the design pane in Domino Designer.
• Insert a subform in a form.
• Insert a computed subform by using the Formula language in Domino Designer.
• Create a shared applet resource.
• Add a shared applet resource to a form.

Unit 5: Fine Tuning

• Match the document states with the field formulas that are calculated in the Formula language.
• Match the document states with the IsDoc function in the Formula language.
• Write a formula to test the document state by using the IsNewDoc function.
• Identify the guidelines that help to improve form performance.
• Identify the formula that displays the type of the client used in a specific scenario.
• Identify the formula that displays the type of the platform being used in a specific scenario.
• Identify the types of help available in Notes R5.
• Create a document-level online help system in a database in Domino Designer.
• Create field-level help in a form.

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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