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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

New @Commands and @Formulas


The Domino Designer 7 provides both new @Commands and @Formulas. Many of these are oriented towards the new DB2 for Domino feature. Others simplify the design of existing applications or help leverage new features offered by Domino Designer 7. The following sections examine new @Formulas and consider their usage.

@Command([DiscoverFolders])

@Command([DiscoverFolders]) streamlines the process of identifying the folders to which a document belongs. This function can be used by end users and helps eliminate the need for developers to program similar functionality. There are some prerequisites for its use. First, it must be called from a design element containing an Embedded Outline that has the Maintain folder unread information property enabled. This property is not available directly within an Outline design element, but is available when embedding it within another design element (see the following illustration):

The requirements of the DiscoverFolders command...