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Overview

What you get 'out of the box'

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

John D. Head

Director of Enterprise Collaboration at PSC Group, LLC

Involved in Lotus technology since 1993

Speaker

Over 30 sessions at Lotusphere since 1996

Speaker at Lotus Developer and ILUG conferences

Author

Advisor Magazine and other publications on Office and SmartSuite integration with Notes

LotusUserGroup.org contributing Author and Forum moderator

www.johndavidhead.com

IBM Premium Business Partner for 18+ Years

Microsoft Managed Partner

Notes & Domino 8.5 Design Partner

Host of IdeaJam.net

Former Host of OpenNTF.org

Winner of 2007 & 2009 Lotus Awards!

Host of the following blogs:

Ed Brills(www.edbrill.com)

Alan Lepofskys Notes Tips(www.alanlepofsky.net)

Alan Gartenberg - Sametime(www.adamgartenberg.com)

Domino Server Team (www.dominoblog.com)

Lotus Connections Team

(synch.rono.us)

Chris Pepin IBM CTOs Office ( www.chrispepin.com )

Lotus Usability (Mary Beth Raven) (www.notesdesign.com)

Presentation example database

Single database with all examples

You can configure it for your Notes client

Example numbers in the presentation match those in the database

Lotusphere 2009 session database

From Genii Software

Updated version inside the demo database

Personal name and address book

My demos work with the standard Notes 6, 7, 8, & 8.5 templates

Who is using

Office 97 and earlier

Office 2000

Office XP

Office 2003

Office 2007

OpenOffice / StarOffice

Lotus Symphony

Overview

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

IBM branded the Notes 8 Productivity Tools as Lotus Symphony

Stand-alone Release

Symphony 1.0 released Q2 2008

IBM is on a 8 week release cycle with Symphony

Notes 8.0.2 has Symphony 1.1

Symphony 1.2 stand alone available

Notes 8.5 has Symphony 1.2

Casual- Task Users

Common uses of documents, spreadsheets & presentations

Mostly viewing and light editing

Filling out templates (status reports, etc.)

Use out of box with little to no customization

Example: Customer service, and other supporting functions

Start now!

Medium Power Users

More robust needs for documents, spreadsheets & presentations

Stronger interoperability requirements as need to collaborate with Office users

Example: Sales, marketing,

Move over time

Power & Macro Users

Heavy Excel users

Third-party application integration

Heavy reliance on macros

Example: Finance department

A target for 2009

Three applications

Lotus Symphony Documents

Lotus Symphony Presentations

Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets

Robust and complete feature set

Designed for the majority of end users

Intuitive interface, easy to learn

Multiple file formats supported

Additional supported formats

Export documents, spreadsheets and presentations to Adobe PDF

Import Lotus SmartSuite documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

Create, edit, & share complex word processing documents

Robust feature set including:

Formatting options for text, page, paragraph

Headers, footers, footnotes, indexes, table of contents

Drawing tools

Pre-defined document styles

Pre-defined fields (i.e., dates, page numbering)

Create, edit, and share complex presentations

Robust feature set including:

Pre-defined presentation templates

Slide show mode with animations and page transitions

Speaker presentation timing and rehearsal modes

Speaker notes

Flexible navigation views page by page, text outline, page thumbnail, and speaker note views

Create, edit, and share complex spreadsheets

Robust feature set includes:

Supports conventional row and column format for spreadsheets

Spreadsheet sizes up to 256 columns and 65,536 rows

Supports up to 256 sheets per spreadsheet

Large library of pre-defined calculation functions

Support Option 1

Symphony Embedded Version

Passport Advantage support

Included with purchase of other products

Notes 8

Foundations

No additional charge

Support Option 2

Standalone Symphony Free Support

Web based moderated forum support

Forums monitored by IBM and the community

Hints and Tips

Developer support forum

Support Option 3

Symphony Standalone Fee Based Support Offering

Passport Advantage support Passport Advantage or Express Contract required

$25,000 for up to 20,000 users Limited to 20 technical contacts

Worldwide 24x7 Unlimited Incidents

Overview

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

Designed on an interface-based component model called Universal Network Objects (UNO)

UNO definition

UNO offers interoperability between different programming languages, different object models, different machine architectures, and different processes; either in a local network or even via the Internet

UNO components can be implemented in, and accessed from, any programming language for which a UNO language binding exists

StarDivision StarOffice written in the mid 80s

Bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999, StarOffice released in August 1999

Source code released October 2000

OpenOffice.org 1.0 released May 2002, 2.0 in October 2005

OpenDocument format becomes international standard ISO/IEC 26300 November 2006

IBM Lotus Workplace Productivity Editors released 2005

Based on OpenOffice.org 1.1

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released March 2007

Notes 8 to include IBM Productivity Tools, based on OpenOffice.org 1.1X

Lotus Symphony 1.2 Released December 2008

ServiceManager is similar to the NotesSession class

It is a factory class that gets you to other places

Set SM=CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")

Think of the ServiceManager as a back-end class, and we want the front end (like NotesUIWorkspace)

Set Desktop=SM.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")

Calling the ServiceManager created an Lotus Symphony window, but we need to do more

So far we have an Lotus Symphony window, but it doesnt know what application it will be we have to tell it

Dim args()

Set WriterApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL ("private:factory/swriter","_blank",0,args)

Args is a variant array

We dont want to pass any parameters, but it must be an array

The s in swriter stands for Star

Now we have a word processor up and running

Now we have an application open

Time to do something!

First, we need to get a handle to the text part ofthe document

Set WriterText=WriterApplication.getText()

Next, we need a cursor position where we can insertthe text

Set Cursor=WriterText.createTextCursor()

Finally, we can make the traditional greeting

Call WriterText.insertString(Cursor,"Hello World!",False)

After executing all of the code we walked through, this is the result

Now lets try it for real

Objects

Interfaces collections of properties

In LotusScript you can use methods and properties from any interface

In Java and C you have to specify which interface you want to use

You can get a Firefox extension for OpenOffice.org

Easier to navigate

Just like the other applications, mail merge has itsown URL

Set objMailMerge = objServiceManager.createInstance ("com.sun.star.text.MailMerge")

Mail merge has seven arguments

DocumentURL

DataSourceName

CommandType

Command

OutputType

OutputURL

FileNamePrefix

Set the seven arguments

Set args(1) = OOoNamedValue("DocumentURL", url)

Set args(0) = OOoNamedValue("DataSourceName", "mrgdata")

Set args(2) = OOoNamedValue("CommandType", 0)

Set args(3) = OOoNamedValue("Command", "mrgdata")

Set args(4) = OOoNamedValue("OutputType", 2)

Output has two options

1 = Send to printer

2 = Save to file

Set args(5) = OOoNamedValue("OutputURL", savelocation)

Set args(6) = OOoNamedValue("FileNamePrefix", "mailmergeoutput1")

Finally, call the Execute method to complete themail merge

objMailMerge.Execute args()

Calc uses a different URL to define the application

Set CalcApplication = Desktop.loadComponentFromURL_("private:factory/scalc","_blank",0,args)

The command above creates the workbook

Next, we need to get the first sheet

Set Worksheet=CalcApplication.Sheets.getByName("Sheet1")

Finally, we access the cell into which we want toenter text

Set cell=Worksheet.getCellByPosition(3,6)

We have set the string in a cell, but which cell is it?

Why did the text go into cell D7? Didnt we write to cell (3,6)?

Just like arrays in Notes, the index starts at 0!

Pages contain shapes

Shapes can contain text

Text is handled just as it is in Lotus Symphony Documents

To create the instance of Impress, call its URL

Set ImpressApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL_ ("private:factory/simpress","_blank",0,args)

Next, call the getDrawPages function to create the default presentation

Set Presentation=ImpressApplication.getDrawPages()

To get the first slide, use the getByIndex method

Set Slide=Presentation.getByIndex(0)

Each layout type has its own number

To create a title page, enter the following:

Slide.layout=1

Finally, we need to get the title and handle it like its a Lotus Symphony Documents text object

Set title=Slide.getbyindex(0)

Set TitleText=title.getText()

Set Cursor=TitleText.createTextCursor()

Call TitleText.insertString(Cursor,"Hello World!",False)

How did I get that template in my new dialog?

Use the template installation tool

Each template is a document

Supports OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, and Impress applications

Can also be used as a programmatic template tool

Located on OpenNTF.org and on the conference CD

Using Lotus Symphony as the end point for a real world application

Invoicing Application

Uses UNO API to generate an editable file in OpenOffice.org format

Uses UNO API to generate a read-only file in PDF format

Product vs. Custom Development

Both have their place

Integra for Notes Symphony Edition

Supports Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets

Requires 8.0.1 or higher

Overview

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

For use within Lotus Notes

LotusScript based

Creates classes and objects much like the Domino Object Model

First version will come with Symphony 1.3 and Notes 8.5.1

Focus on basic operations in first release

Documents

Spreadsheets

Integra for Notes Symphony Edition using the LSX

Supports Lotus Symphony Documents and Mail Merge

Requires 8.5 or higher

Winner of the 2009 Lotus Awards CTO Award for EMEA

Overview

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

Documentation and samples for integrating the Notes 8 Productivity Editors with Notes 8 Standard

Lotus Productivity Toolkit 8.0 Windows.exe

Download this from IBM Passport Advantage or PartnerWorld

Targeted at people who know:

HTML internals

Most of the time you will use this from a Composite Application (CA)

Overview

Understanding

LotusScript

LotusScript LSX

Symphony Toolkit

Plug-ins

Enable deploying Eclipse plug-ins to Symphony

API for accessing Symphony controls and document content

Enable UI extensions

Menu (add-ins)

Toolbar (set of buttons)

Stack in side shelf

Another window

Examples

AutoRecognizer

Translator

Backend integration

Customized editor

Plugins can extend the functionality of Lotus Symphony

Quickr Plugin

Acts like the Quickr Plugin for Notes

Not the same as Notes plugins or sidebar panels

Built using Java via the Eclipse.org platform

Content model for easy control and content manipulation

As editor component in Expeditor solutions

Composite application on Symphony

Need stand alone composite application editor

Interoperability with OpenOffice.org programmability

OpenOffice.org 3.x Code Stream Merge

UNO API and StarBasic

Interoperability with MS Office programmability

VBA interpreter

Enable plug-ins for Symphony in Notes

Symphony in a browser

DOM model for accessing content via JavaScript

Expanded OS platform support

Ubuntu Linux

Mac OS X (beta)

New functions

Mail/Merge

Support for Office 2007 file format (read only)

Improved pivot table capabilities

Macro enablement

Continued Focus Items

Usability

Developer 3rd party application support

Performance

GA Mac OS X support

Full Office 2007 file format support

New plug-ins

Lotus Connections

More enhancements

Major enhancements to Data Pilots (Pivot Charts)

Lots of changes for developers

JMP205: Integration of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET, and IBM Lotus Symphony

John Head

Loction TBD

BP305: The Document Format Dance

John Head

Location TBD

BP111: Reports, Charts, and Graphs 2.0

Julian Robichaux & Rob McDonagh

Location TBD

SW License Optimization Can:

Understand how to demonstrate the alternatives to Microsoft EA bundle so your customers could reduce their budget and be able to invest in mission critical projects.

Explain Microsoft interdependencies strategy and how customers can be tied without being able to negotiate.

Show customers the Real Cost of Microsofts collaboration strategy based on lessons learned from hundreds of customers engagements.

[email_address]

www.ibm.com/software/info/liberate

2 Day on-site briefings

Covers the Lotus Symphony story for

Executives

Administrators

Developers

Includes a Microsoft Office assessment and strategy white paper

Contact [email protected] for more info

LDD Discussions (Notes.Net) http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus

OpenOffice.orghttp://www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice Developers Guide http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html

Programming OpenOffice with Visual Basic http://www.kalitech.fr/clients/doc/VB_APIOOo_en.html

John Heads blog http://www.johndavidhead.com

Slides and content available from http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.psclistens.com

Lotus Symphony website

symphony.lotus.com

OpenNTF.org the open source Web site for Notes

www.openntf.org

Integra4Notes Web site

www.integra4notes.com

PSCs Reporting and Office Integration page

www.psclistens.com/enTouchCMS/app/viewCategory? catgId=66

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