I know this starts to go outside the realms of Lotus Notes, but I’ve been asked to build an extension to an existing documentation database that is currently web only.
Basically they want a little notification to appear on the system tray (task bar) when documents are added to the database. None of the users have Notes clients, so have to look at another route.
I’m thinking that I’m going to need to use .Net to create it. Has anyone done anything like this before and could give me some pointers, I’m actually wondering if it’ll be possible to get such an app to actually login to the Notes Web DB in order to check for new documents.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Ross
Subject: Task Bar notification when documents added, no notes client
I dont know the details, but that could be done using C API.
Subject: RE: Task Bar notification when documents added, no notes client
No, it couldn’t. Using the C API means having the Notes executables installed locally.
Subject: Task Bar notification when documents added, no notes client
You could do it with .Net, yes, but you can also do it with Java using a CORBA (DIIOP) connection. With .Net, it would probably be easiest to create a Web Service at the Domino end that when queried reports the number of documents created since a date/time that the client (your .Net app) supplies. That’s a NotesDatabase.Search and a NotesDocumentCollection.Count on the Domino side, and not much more; and a periodic request to a web service on the .Net side and raising a notification when the count is greater than zero. I’m not familiar with the current .Net framework, but I know that there were methods for logging in to web servers using both basic and form-based (session) authentication even in the 2003 version.