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Domino 7 Application Development

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Domino 7 Application Development

Overview of this book

Written by Lotus insiders, the book provides a practical guide to developing applications making use of the important features and enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 7. These experienced experts use their own experiences to map out the benefits you could gain, and the dangers you may face, as you develop Domino applications in your business. Written by specific experts, edited and overseen by Lotus content generator Dick McCarrick, this book is the definitive guide to developing Domino 7 applications. TECHNOLOGY Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server or as the server component of IBM's Lotus Domino product which provides a powerful collaborative platform for development of customized business applications. It also provides enterprise-grade email, messaging, and scheduling capabilities.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Domino 7 Application Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Free Chapter
1
A Short History of Notes and Domino

The Default Form Indicator


Domino Designer 7 has updated the Default Form indicator. When a form has its "Default database form" property set, it displays a graphical image of a star next to the form. Only one form at a time can have this property set. Setting this attribute for one form disables it for all others.

Design Elements

Lotus Domino Designer 7 includes two enhancements that improve the handling of design elements.

Design Elements Sortable by Name

Domino Designer 6 did not allow you to sort design elements using the Name column in the Design Elements view, although it did allow design elements to be sorted by other columns. In Domino Designer 7, design elements are now sortable by the Name field.

Inline Editing of Design Elements

Domino Designer 7 allows you to edit the attributes that appear in the Design view of various design elements, without the need to open the design notes. This can now be done inline from the Design Elements view. Simply click on the design note and attribute...