Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 6: Developing Applications for Web Clients

This is the sixth course in a nine part series for webmasters application developers and graphic designers that will introduce Notes/Domino features web-specific tasks and basic system administration tasks to be up on the web quickly and to use Domino to create Web sites and Web applications. At the completion of this course students will learn how to identify the features of Notes applications developed for the web and sequence the activities in processing HTTP requests; designing specialized forms fields and events for the Web; identify the features of native applets of notes; identify web-specific features and browser-specific features; and identify the methods of improving Domino server performance and database security.

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Duration: 8 hours Training Presented in: English

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 five courses in this series.

Objective

• Identify the features of Notes applications developed for the web and sequence the activities in processing HTTP requests.
• Designing specialized forms fields and events for the Web.
• Identify the features of native applets of notes.
• Identify webspecific features and browserspecific features.
• Identify the methods of improving Domino server performance and database security.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Domino and the Web

• Identify the features of applications developed for the Web.
• Sequence the activities that take place when an HTTP request is sent.
• Sequence the activities performed by Domino in processing HTTP client requests.
• Identify the URL for a specified situation.
• Open a database using the OpenDatabase URL command.
• Open a view by using the OpenView URL command.
• Open a document by using the OpenDocument URL command.
• Launch an attachment using the OpenElement URL command.
• Run an agent by using the OpenAgent URL command.
• Authenticate a user by using the Login URL command.
• Identify the methods to specify HTML in notes forms.
• Specify HTML code by using the PassThru HTML option.
• Specify HTML code by using the HTML paragraph style.
• Pass HTML directly to the browser by using the HTML field.
• Create HTML tag attributes of a field by using the HTML tab.

Unit 2: Web Applications: Designing Objects

• Customize the form processed confirmation messages.
• Match the special search fields with the tasks for which they are used.
• Capture environment information in an application by using CGI variables.
• Add HTML header information to a form by using the HTML head content event.
• Add HTML body information to a form by using the HTML body attributes event.
• Change the HTML formatting attributes of fields.
• Identify the type of agent for a specified situation based on the reason for using that agent.
• Secure web agents.
• Set-up multiple agents to run simultaneously by making changes to the notes.ini file.
• Customize the general error messages.
• Customize the authorization failure messages.

Unit 3: Customizing Notes Applications

• Match the Native applets of Notes with their features.
• Create a view applet in a page.
• Create an outline applet in a page.
• Create an action bar applet.
• Create an editor applet in a form.
• Embed a Java applet in a form by using an existing Java class.
• Enable a database to use JavaScript for pages during web access.
• Generate HTML for hidden fields by modifying the form property.
• Specify the contents of a form as HTML by modifying the form property.
• Modify the link color attributes of a form.
• Identify the environmental components to be present for a browser to support a Notes application.
• Identify the arguments that can be passed to browserinfo function to test browser features.
• Enable file attachment in a form for a browser that supports File Upload Control.
• Identify the features of a full-text search.
• Create a full-text index by modifying the database property.
• Customize a search form.
• Create a search result form.

Unit 4: Domino Performance and Security

• Identify the features of Domino server command caching.
• Identify the guidelines to improve Domino server performance on the Web.
• Identify the functions that can be used to execute a code for web.
• Secure the URLs by using the security tab.
• Modify the access level of an anonymous user for web authentication by using ACL.
• Provide access to public documents by modifying the 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).

Media

• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 1: Basic Concepts
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 2: Application Development Fundamentals
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 3: Creating User Interfaces
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 4: Making Your Application Run
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 5: Advanced Application Development
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 7: Developing Applications for the Notes R5
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 8: Application Architecture
• Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 9: Web Site Design