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IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques

By : Richard G Ellis
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IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques

By: Richard G Ellis

Overview of this book

Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server. As part of the Domino suite, it provides a powerful collaborative platform for the development of customized business applications. It provides enterprise-grade e-mail, messaging, and scheduling capabilities. There are many novice and moderately experienced developers who would like to enhance a Web-enabled Domino application, but to do so they need to learn the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and also how to use those technologies in the context of a Domino application. Information about how to do this is available on the Web, but the sheer volume of that information makes it very difficult for the newbie to get started. Topics and techniques presented in this book provide a comprehensive overview of all major design strategies used to Web-enable traditional Domino applications. Illustrations provide clear working examples of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be incorporated into existing applications to improve both look and performance. Early chapters provide suggestions for working with users and for managing your development time and effort. Later chapters focus in detail on forms and pages, views, navigation, agents, security, performance, and troubleshooting. Examples demonstrate clearly how to incorporate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into Domino designs. By the end of this book you will have learned what you need to know to quickly and competently tackle web application enhancement tasks. Beyond providing a good understanding, this book will continue to serve as a valuable source of ideas and techniques. This book brings together essential classic strategies and techniques used to deploy Domino applications to the Web. Chapters cover all major design elements, with a special emphasis on how to craft these elements to work well with web browsers. Many topics include alternative techniques for solving particular problems. Illustrations and examples can be used where appropriate, or they can serve as jumping off points for your own solutions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Testing and Debugging

Adding view scrollbars dynamically


It is possible to add scrollbars to Domino views without using the View Applet. This technique might be appropriate for views whose line count will not exceed the Maximum lines per view page server setting discussed earlier. In other words, if the server setting is 1000 and a view never exceeds 1,000 rows, then adding a scrollbar as described here might work well.

Again, there are several pieces to this solution which must work together. (For the purpose of this illustration, I simply duplicated records to create a larger number of documents.). To begin, here's the finished product:

Here are the steps to add scrollbars to a view:

  1. 1. Add<div> tags to the view template:

    Add two HTML divisions to the view template. The embeddedview division encloses the embedded view control, and the viewwrapper division encloses the embeddedview division. The viewwrapper division is the container to which the scrollbars attach. Here is the complete view template with...