This chapter describes sample code that uses some of the new programming features offered in Lotus Notes/Domino 7. You can download a Domino database containing this code from here: http://www.packtpub.com/support. These code samples illustrate a number of interesting features in release 7 while offering some practical examples you may be interested in incorporating into your own applications.
The samples we provide include the following features:
Save & Close action bar button
Preventing editing of fields and documents dynamically
Fast DBLookups
InViewEditing
The sample Domino database that accompanies this chapter contains examples of these features "in action".
Most Save & Close buttons don't account for QuerySave events or field validation formulas that might find invalid data and stop the save. You can tell you have such a button when it asks you a second time if you want to save the document, even after a pop up has told...