I am new to Lotus Notes 8. I learn it by following “Developing a composite application in IBM Lotus Notes to integrate Lotus Notes and Google calendars” published in IBM Developer Works.
After I created the composite application database using Create a new application, the article described that to start the Composite Application Editor, select Actions - Edit Application. But in my Domino designer, the menu items listed under Actions is “Not Available”, greyed.
If I preview the application, I could find the Edit Application item listed in the Actions menu of the previewed application.
Does that mean that the Composite Editor should be opened only when you preview the application?
I’m also new to version 8 and I’m using the same tutorial.
Yes, the only way to launch CAE is to open the database that contains the application, then select “Actions - Edit Application”.
If you don’t see this choice, then Notes does not know that the database contains a composite app. In order to get the action to display, you need to have a composite application defined under “Composite Applications - Applications” in the designer. If no apps are listed, click “New Comp App” and give it a name. The other thing that is required is to launch the database as a composite app. You can do this 2 ways: 1) In database properties, set launch options to launch the composite app. 2) use a frameset that is designed to contain the composite app, then set database options to launch that frameset.
I hope this helps.
Also, I had problems using that tutorial. I became confused starting at “Listing 2” which says to use Listing 2 for the “Refresh Gcal” action code. The only problem is that the tutorial already defined the same action with listing 1. Were you able to make any sence of this?