Lotus Domino R5 Development Part 7: Developing Applications for the Notes R5

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 six courses in this series.

Objective

• Identify the uses of application development for the Notes R5 client.
• Specify field settings and the tab order of fields in a form.
• Implement the advanced tools of Application Development. Identify the various methods to collect information.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Application Development: Form Layout

• Identify the uses of application development for the Notes R5 client.
• Specify the native OS style setting for a field in a form.
• Specify the tab order setting for a field in a form.
• Create a standard section in a form.
• Create a controlled access section in a form.
• Create a basic table in a form.
• Create a tabbed table in a form.
• Create an animated table in a form.
• Create a programmed table in a form.
• Create a nested table in a form.
• Embed elements in a table.
• Create a layout region.
• Create an action to invoke a form containing a layout region in a dialog box.
• Identify the functions of the Hide-When feature.
• Hide a database element by using the options in the Hide-When property pane.
• Hide a database element by using a formula.

Unit 2: Application Development: Advanced Tools

• Identify the uses of simple actions.
• Implement a simple action in a form.
• Combine simple actions in an agent to build complex functions.
• Match the methods of information collection with their functions.
• Create an action to collect information by using the Prompt function.
• Create an action to collect information by using the Picklist function.
• Create an action to collect information using the Dialogbox function.
• Identify the uses of OLE.
• Link OLE objects in an application.
• Create an embedded object in a form.
• Create a Full Text Index for a database.
• Create a Full Text Search for a database by using search operators.
• Create a full text search by using a search builder.

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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