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

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).

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