Hi,
I’ve been searching around on here now looking for how and if I can use Dreamweaver to design websites in domino.
I found something about webDAV but don’t really understand it.
So my question is simple:
Can I use Dreamweaver to make my design in domino?
And if so, what does it take to go there? (is that webDAV)
/ RT
Subject: Using Dreamweaver on domino
It most probably will not do what you want to. WebDAV stands for web distributed authoring and versioning. If your Domino server is set up to support WebDAV, then WebDAV capable clients can push and pull a limited set of design elements to and from a Notes Database. Don’t nail me on this one, but when I remember right from the top of my head you can create (and update and delete) image resources, CSS Stylesheet resources and file resources.
As far as I know, Dreamweaver is capable of doing WebDAV, so there must be some configuration option where you have to provide a link to your WebDAV enabled Notes Database as the publishing target. The exact syntax is given in the help (I always tend to forget).
In the past, Lotus had a product called Domino Design Components, that would provide a similar functionality, but would create a bunch of pages as pass-through HTML.
What both have in common: You cannot create a fully fledged dynamic Domino website that way. You just create static HTML files (stored as file resources) and the accompanying images, JS files (oh yeah, those are supported as well) and CSS files. No forms, no means to create documents, no views, no workflow logic.
Therefor, the usual approach many developers take is to generate a basic layout in Dreamweaver or whatever advanced HTML editor, copy over the markup into a Notes form, slice it up into reusable components, like typical headers, footers, navigation and so on and put that into subforms (so you don’t have to change every form, when making changes to the design later on.
To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing else, that provides a tighter integration.
Subject: Using Dreamweaver on domino
While searching IBM’s site I found this link:IBM Developer
Of course it was some years ago this was published but has anyone tryed this? Does it work? Is there a updated version?