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Lotus Technologies > Application Development
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An application for scanning physical mail and distributing it virtually
DominoPower Magazine - October 2009
In the fascinating article by Bernard Grenville-Jones, you'll learn how to set up and manage a Notes application that will scan physical postal mail, and then distribute it company-wide.
How hide-whens in Rich Text can ruin your whole day (and what to do about it)
DominoPower Magazine - April 2009
The fundamental thing to understand is that, unlike any other sort of Notes field, the data in Rich Text field can contain its own hide-whens, because that's one of the functions of Rich Text. This behavior can reach out and bite you. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you avoid getting stung by the hide-when behavior of Rich Text.
Little known traps about Lotus Notes fields
DominoPower Magazine - December 2008
Fields would seem to be simple things, places to put data items. But like much else in Notes, they're traps for the unwary. They're traps for more experienced developers too, just when you're looking somewhere else. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you avoid those traps.
Integrating a Notes Connector database with Google Enterprise Search
DominoPower Magazine - October 2008
If you read Colin Neale's previous article, you now know a little bit about how the Domino connector for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) came about. This week, he covers a couple of the connector's key features, and you'll see how the system interacts with the GSA to respect Notes database and document level security in search results.
Integrating Notes content with Google Enterprise Search
DominoPower Magazine - October 2008
Developer Colin Neale has figured out how to adapt the Google Search Appliance to work with Notes databases, even those that aren't Web enabled. To learn how, read this fascinating article.
Numeric vs. text fields in application design
DominoPower Magazine - November 2007
When designing applications, consider carefully whether the value you are keeping really is a number that you will use in arithmetic calculations, or whether it is just a text string that contains numeric characters. You won't regret those few extra moments in your application design process when you see the extra robustness of the application and its greater resilience to change. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you understand where you could go wrong, even if you do it by the numbers.
Troubles with views
DominoPower Magazine - October 2007
Here's a short piece with some tips on using Notes views programmatically from LotusScript. And it may be a first for DominoPower: it was written entirely with the Notes 8 document editor.
Take hold of your development project with SCM
DominoPower Magazine - September 2007
What happens when you build computer software? In one word: change. In this first article in a series on Software Configuration Management (SCM), Kathy T. Evans-Davis defines SCM, describes how and why its used, and discuss some rules and guidelines that work to produce the best products during the software development process.
An SOA approach to implement standard source code control systems with a Lotus Notes development environment
DominoPower Magazine - August 2007
In this fascinating article, Teamstudio chief architect Craig Schuman helps us understand how SOA can fit into a Notes environment, helps us understand the changes coming with Notes 8 and composite applications, and helps us gain a real understanding for how this all fits into a development process.
Extending the automated signature generator
DominoPower Magazine - November 2005
Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how to extend the program with new fields.
Getting inside the code of the automated signature generator
DominoPower Magazine - October 2005
Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how the program's code works.
Adding templates to the automated signature generator
DominoPower Magazine - October 2005
Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores how an administrator can add templates.
Building an automated signature generator application
DominoPower Magazine - October 2005
Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard build an automated signature generator for Notes. In this series of articles, he takes you through all the stages of building the application. This week, he explores the user experience.
Extend the reach of your IWWCM search, Part 2
DominoPower Magazine - September 2005
This article uses a real life case study to demonstrate how Colin Neale used his own C-Search program to extend IWWCM search capabilities beyond it's own publishing database without the need to develop search routines inside IWWCM itself. In this article, Colin finishes his discussion, showing how to render the search forms and search results.
Extend the reach of your IWWCM search with C-Search
DominoPower Magazine - September 2005
This article uses a real life case study to demonstrate how Colin Neale used his own C-Search program to extend IWWCM search capabilities beyond it's own publishing database without the need to develop search routines inside IWWCM itself.
The further case of Last Modified dates
DominoPower Magazine - November 2004
Back in the March issue of DominoPower Magazine Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard wrote about document lastmodified dates, see http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200403/00001250001.html. Someone at Lotus must be reading DominoPower, because NotesDatabase.getModifiedDocuments has been included in the latest ND7 beta, beta2 at the time of this writing. Read on to find out more about NotesDatabase.getModifiedDocuments and how it works in ND7.
The case against human cloning (humans cloning software)
DominoPower Magazine - September 2003
In this very interesting and thought-provoking article, Jeff Chilton gives the case for and against software reuse. If you're a developer or managing developers, this is a must-read article that should be shared with your entire team.
Keeping up with changes in Domino development
DominoPower Magazine - November 2002
As he prepares to give a speech to the San Francisco Bay Area talking about trends and technologies affecting the future of Lotus Notes and Domino development, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco is giving us a preview. In this informative article, he shares some of the experiences and information he's gathered by thinking and writing about the IBM/Lotus world for over four years.
How to create animated, context sensitive help for the Notes client
DominoPower Magazine - July 2002
Love them or hate them, Microsoft's little animated characters that pop up on your screen to walk you through an application's Help database can often be quite useful. Jim Parry has found great success in adding animated Help to his applications, and in this article, he'll show you how to create animated, context sensitive help for the Notes client.
Expanding and collapsing response document rows with Domino and Internet Explorer
DominoPower Magazine - December 2001
In this article, Andrew Stuart will show you how to build HTML tables with expanding and collapsing response document rows.
Desperately seeking wireless
DominoPower Magazine - November 2001
Directed to implement a wireless solution using Domino Everyplace Access and a BlackBerry device, Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco found it more difficult than first anticipated. In this article, he describes his harrowing experience so you can avoid a similar fate.
Control your application's agents with this Agent Launchers tool
DominoPower Magazine - October 2001
After delivering an application, have you ever wished you or the application's administrators had more control over the application's agents? Have you ever needed to quickly disable a scheduled agent that was generating errors in production? In this article, Jonathan Coombs presents a handy Agent Launchers tool that provides several features he's found useful in maintaining tight control over the agents in production applications.
How to create Yahoo-like Web folder navigation
DominoPower Magazine - September 2001
The Notes folder structure provides an excellent way to categorize information. Navigating through those folders via a browser client is not always simple, however. Large public Web sites such as Yahoo.com use an alternative method of navigation that is particularly well suited to a large hierarchical data structure. In this article, Glenn S. Orenstein will show you how you too can create Yahoo-like navigation of folders and views via a Web browser.
Changing Rich Text font styles on the Web
DominoPower Magazine - August 2001
When Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco wrote a tip about applying stylesheet styles to Notes Rich Text fields on the Web and asked for feedback from you, the faithful DominoPower readers, he received a lot of responses. This led to create a second tip on the same subject, and it also helped him to solve another tricky problem. In this article, Dan has reprinted the original tips along with what he learned from your feedback and some additional commentary.
Inside mail distribution: the programming project
DominoPower Magazine - June 2001
In this article, Mick Moignard will take you inside the code of his System Managed Groups application. He shows you exactly how he did it so that you too can keep your groups automatically maintained.
Inside mail distribution: the application
DominoPower Magazine - June 2001
Be honest. Is your mail distribution list facility up to date? Mick Moignard's never was, which led him to create a System Managed Groups application that manages the contents of groups in the Directory from descriptions stored in rules. These rules describe the group member list in terms of fields and values in the Directory. In this article, he introduces you to the program by showing you how it looks to the administrator.
A flexible approach to keeping a history of recent edits
DominoPower Magazine - May 2001
As business and workflow documents go through the editing process, it's often useful to track who did what to each document, and when. Here, Jonathan Coombs presents the Editor History subform, a configurable subform that computes and displays a document's recent editors and edit dates.
Creating context sensitive field help with dialog boxes
DominoPower Magazine - April 2001
How many times have you been clueless when completing a field on a form? The usual solution is field help, but while it's tied programmatically to the field, this solution has several problems. Chris Doig has figured out how to get around those problems, and in this article, he'll show you how by using dialog boxes to create context sensitive Notes field help.
Coding Domino server tasks in C: beyond Windows
DominoPower Magazine - February 2001
Last month, Ian Cherrill took you through the source code for ACLHelp, a Domino server task written in C that lets you use the server console to add yourself into the ACL (Access Control List) of a database as a manager. That was using Windows. This month, he'll show you how to make ACLHelp run on other platforms.
Coding Domino server tasks in C: the adventure continues
DominoPower Magazine - January 2001
Last month, Ian Cherrill introduced you to the idea of using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 to write Domino server programs. In the second part of this series, he's going to take you inside a program called ACLHelp, a simple server task that allows you to become manger of a database by using the Domino remote console.
Coding Domino server tasks in C
DominoPower Magazine - December 2000
In this first article in a series, Ian Cherrill will help you gain a little developer street cred and maybe add a new skill to your resume by showing you how to create a basic server task in C and debug it just like you would step through a LotusScript agent.
Reusing the Web address dialog from the R5 mail template
DominoPower Magazine - December 2000
In developing Web-based applications in Domino R5, you might find it necessary to provide a means to select names of individuals or groups from a Domino directory. You could probably create a form and program the code necessary to do the job, but there's an easier way that bypasses the development effort completely. In this article, Glenn S. Orenstein shows you how it's done.
How to create subforms that configure other subforms
DominoPower Magazine - June 2000
Have you ever written a great subform creating a full audit trail of document changes, only to realize you don't know how to get information from the setup subform when you don't know the name of the database profile form. Well, put your mind at ease, for Chris Doig has found a solution. Read this article to find out how it works.
Makeovers for tired R4 applications
DominoPower Magazine - May 2000
One unfortunate side effect of upgrading your Lotus Notes clients to R5 is that, once people get used to the new, revised templates, your old R4 applications will look dated and dowdy by comparison. The good news is that by performing a couple of quick makeovers, you can give your pre-R5 databases the basic R5 look, making them easier on the eye and easier for customers to operate. In this article, Jeffery Burrows gives you some makeover tips to freshen up your outdated databases.
Tips for building flexible applications
DominoPower Magazine - January 2000
As the pace of business and change increased through the '90s, the demand for faster delivery of applications also increased. Developers and other technology-related workers had a hard time keeping up with the demands of their users, often fighting to meet the many requests for simple changes and additions. In this article we'll look at ways to save yourself and your users time and pain by making your applications more flexible.
A Web browser development environment
DominoPower Magazine - November 1999
Developer Chris Stoner (a.k.a. GreenJellyBean after her RAV4) was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic one day (presumably in the same RAV4) and thought up a cool new feature she'd like to see in Notes and Domino: a development environment you can use from a Web browser? In this "idea paper", Chris shares her thoughts on this innovative idea.
Encrypting fields in Domino and Notes
DominoPower Magazine - September 1999
Encryption is a hot topic and a valuable security feature. In this important, hands-on article, Tom Lowery shows how to set up a Notes or Domino document for field-level encryption. If you want to keep your secrets secure, you'll need to read this article.
Using Domino to build a corporate portal
DominoPower Magazine - August 1999
You can use Domino to give you the flexibility to design your own corporate portal exactly as you want, with the added plus of the power of workflow. In this fascinating article, Kevin Terry gives you an overview of the portal he built, tells you how it was built using Domino, and gives you some great tips for building your own.
Get twisted and change your twisties
DominoPower Magazine - July 1999
This is a twisted business. Need proof? The little expand/collapse icons in Notes views are called "twisties". Now, have you ever wanted to change these icons to something else? Ever get tired of those little triangle things? If so, this is the article for you. Shabbir Tayeb-Ali writes all the way from Pakistan with some easy hacks for twists and a slick bit of JavaScript to change your icons on the fly.
Using one template for three different uses
DominoPower Magazine - June 1999
Have you ever wanted to create one template that can support multiple renditions of itself? For some applications, you may be maintaining a bunch of templates that are basically the same. If you make a design change to one, then all need to be updated! The design of these templates can quickly get out of sync. A better solution, given this scenario, would be to have one common template that adapted to your needs. This article by Chris Brown (a.k.a. GreenJellybean) explains how to do just that.
Notes direct serial communications to Palm devices
DominoPower Magazine - June 1999
In each issue of DominoPower, we promise real meat. This issue is no exception. In this article by Mark Lawson, you'll learn how to control your PC's serial port directly from Notes (no intermediary files required). Further, Mark shows you how to set up a direct linkage between Notes and a Palm computer, bypassing conduits, the Palm Desktop, and HotSync. This is an article for real programmers and those who want to be just like them.
How to use UI standards to cut your Notes development time by 15% or more
DominoPower Magazine - June 1999
Senior Technology Editor Richard Echeandia is back and better than ever. This month he shows you how a set of user interface standards can reduce your Notes development time and increase your productivity. But if all you think we're going to do is preach to you about standards, you're sadly mistaken. This is DominoPower, where we give you actual, useful tools each and every issue. This time, Richard provides a step-by-step set of instructions for building common form footers for all your Notes applications. Read this article and you may actually get to experience weekends again.
Sorting documents via Notes and the Web
DominoPower Magazine - May 1999
Contributing Editor Dan Velasco is back with another of his incredibly useful articles. This time, he takes you inside the deep, dark reaches of LotusScript to teach you how to build sorting functions for Web pages in Domino. If you want to truly tap the power of Domino, you should read this article. All that, plus we managed to figure out how to legitimately include Pauly Shore's name in an article in DominoPower. You'll just have to read the article to find out how -- and why.
An easy way to build your own simple, text-based Domino hit counter
DominoPower Magazine - May 1999
Web page hit counters are popular; it doesn't matter in how many flavors they appear. In March, DominoPower ran an article about how to create a graphical hit counter (graphic images of the numbers would change). In this article, Frank Cseh shows how to write a simple text-based counter. This is one those DominoPower articles you can read now and put to use in about 10 minutes.
Build your own database analysis tool
DominoPower Magazine - April 1999
Contributing editor Dan Velasco's back with another incredibly helpful article. Fortunately, this month he hasn't put his life at risk to bring you this great tutorial. In this article, Dan shows you how to build a database analysis tool that can tell you all about your use of Notes on your computer. If you want to push your development skills to the max, read this article. The cool thing, though, is you don't need to be a super-programmer to understand it.
Build your own Domino hit counter
DominoPower Magazine - March 1999
You've probably seen hit counters on Web pages. You know, those cute graphic images that update as more and more people visit a page. If you've wanted to put something like that on your Domino site, and you've wanted to do it completely within Domino, you've been out of luck. Until now. In this extremely valuable article Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows shows how to build such a counter, completely within Domino. As an added plus, he also shows you how to turn Domino into a byte-serving Web server.
A dynamic menu management system for the Web and Notes
DominoPower Magazine - January 1999
Have you ever been to the Lotus Web site and played with that wonderful expanding menu bar? Now, have you ever wanted to build one of your own? Well, now you are in some serious luck. Contributing editor Dan Velasco wanted to do the same thing. In this highly readable and informative article, Dan tells you how you can build your own expanding and collapsing menu bar -- and it'll work for both Web clients and Notes clients.
How to reduce your Notes application development time by 15%
DominoPower Magazine - November 1998
Senior Technology Editor Richard Echeandia does it again. This month he introduces a process that can reduce your Notes development time and increase your productivity. But we're not just talking time and economics here. As a bonus, Richard also provides a step-by-step set of instructions for building common headers for all your Notes applications. You'll find this article invaluable.
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