We use a Notes database as a teamroom for our product development. It contains build status documents for a daily builds. We are interested in automating the creation of these build documents in a script ran outside of the Notes enviroment. Is this possible? If so, can someone point me to a place that can help me get this setup/written?
Thanks
Jaynna
Subject: Adding document to database outside of Notes
Is the data you want to put on the document complicated? I would recommend the route of trying to use something like an e-mail to an notes application which would convert the email to a notes document.
Otherwise you are going to have to look at either using a script language or the notes API.
HTH – Cheers
Subject: RE: Adding document to database outside of Notes
There are many different ways to do what you’re talking about. Which way is best depends on the form the information is in and where it’s accessible from. There are multiple programming interfaces to let you work with Notes data from outside of Notes; the easiest is probably COM or the Java API, depending what language you prefer.
Since the Notes client and Domino server both are able to run LotusScript either on schedule or on demand, you can also have them reach out and grab the data they need, instead of having an outside program. LotusScript or Java code executing in the Notes client, and they can be part of the Notes database in question, making it easy to keep track of the processes that update your Notes data.