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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

Logging


Ideally, your questions have narrowed down the type of problem it could be. So at this point, the more technical troubleshooting can start. You will likely need to gather concrete information to confirm or refine what you're hearing from the users. For example, you could put a bit of debugging code into the button that they're clicking so that it gives more informative errors, or sends you an email (or creates a log document) whenever it's clicked or whenever an error occurs. Collecting the following pieces of information might be enough to diagnose the problem very quickly:

  • Time/date

  • User name

  • Document UNID (if the button is pushed in a document)

  • Error

  • Status or any other likely field that might affect your code

By looking for common denominators (such as the status of the documents in question, or access or roles of the users), you will likely be able to further narrow down the possibilities of why the problem is happening. This doesn't solve your problem of course, but it helps in...