Hi! am new to developing applications in Lotus. Can someone point me to the right track…basically I have the Lotus Domino Server 6 running, I am very much confuse about its architecture and everything. I got the Domino Designer 6 : A Developer’s handbook pdf file, wanted to build some simple applications using it. My problem is how to create/retrive/update information from a blank database that i created. By the way am a web developer using Java, Asp, xml/xsl, javascript etc.
Thanks.
Subject: Newbie in Lotus
Hello,
Welcome aboard. You think of objects in Lotus Notes/Domino as follows (may not be exactly equal/appropriate… just being used for easy reference) !
Form - Table
Document - Table Row.
Field - Column
View - Display of rows.
Open up the designer and do the following. Basically you need to create a Form containing a bunch of fields and save it. Then create a view with a formula to display only the documents created or appropriate as needed such as “(Form = formname)”. Then need to create an action in the view which contains a formula to create a document such as @Command([Compose]; formname). Save the view.
Open up the Notes Client and open up the database and select the view containing the action. Click on the action and create a bunch of documents.
More you may reference the Notes Designer Help.
Hope this helps to get started.
Good Luck…!
Have a nice day.
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Subject: RE: Newbie in Lotus
Thanks for your response. Finally got the idea…tried working on some sample apps.
Thanks a lot!