I am trying to develope a web based application using lotus Domino 7.0. I have created html forms on Dreamweaver, puts images, tables, HTML Fields etc. After creating pages from dreamweaver i copy the entire content and past it to the lotus form and make it “parse through HTML”.
where ever i used html fields i replace it with lotus field and save it. once i run this form on to the IE it looks pretty good.
Now after some time if i need some changes let say delete some rows and columns it is very difficult to recognize which tags i want. Now what i have done is i copy the content from lotus from and paste it to dreamweaver. Once I copied its fields get deleted. and after deleting column and rows what i want again i copy and paste it to the lotus form and again i have to puts the field what I had created.
My question is there any way to integrate dreamweaver directly to Lotus form just like ASP or ASP.net. or any tools which resolve my problem.
Please hekp and guide me. or suggest me how all the beautiful web based application are made in Lotus Domino. I have seen lot of websites which has .nsf extention and looking very good and cool.
What I am doing currently i think this is not right way. Is all the lotus developer do the same things… Please help me
There used to be a tool called Domino Design Components, that would give a certain level of integration between Dreamweaver and Designer. But it has not been updated for ages, seems to be unavailable by now (help and tutorials can still be found) and was pretty crappy anyway. It would just create a bunch of pages of pass-through HTML that could however be synchronized back and forth.
So, the solution is indeed to take a different approach. Don’t think of a Domino generated site as one HTML site. Break it up into multiple subforms, storing reusable parts that you will need on the majority of pages. You can still do your basic layout in Dreamweaver and also modify parts later on, but there is no way to get a Domino form in and out of any HTML authoring tool with full fidelity.
Also note, that there is a (very, very basic, non-graphical) HTML editor for pass-through HTML available in Designer. I hardly use it, but sometimes it comes in handy.