what's new in domino designer 6
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What's New in Domino Designer 6. Gary Devendorf, Product Manager. Working in Designer User Interface: folders, boomarks, object maps Element Locking Code Auto-complete Printing Design Synopsis Add Tool Shared Resources more. Agenda. Quick Access. User Interface. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What's New in Domino Designer 6
Gary Devendorf, Product Manager
Agenda Working in Designer
User Interface: folders, boomarks, object maps
Element LockingCode Auto-completePrintingDesign SynopsisAdd ToolShared Resourcesmore...
Shading m
akes it easy to see w
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User Interface
Quick Access
Context Sensitive Object Model Map for: Lotuscript and OLE, Domino XML, and Javascript
Language Object Models
Bookmarks Folders
Drag and Drop
Quick Scroll Access to Design Elements
Currently working with the DB's views
Quickly access any Form
New Design Element Navigator
ReorganizedShared CodeShared Resources
New Object Containers FilesStyle SheetsData Connections
New Library Types Javascript Libraries Java Libraries
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Design Element Views Perform action (like Signing Agents) from the view
Design Element Locking Locks permit you to synchronize multi-user access to: agents, forms, and views You can set and check locking through
NotesDatabase.IsDesignLockingEnabled Locks are Persistent (if the administration server is available) or Provisional
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AutoComplete for Lotuscript, @Functions, @Commands
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Print Source Code
This print dialog box lets you print source code from within the Programmer's pane
For formulas, simple actions, LotusScript, JavaScript, and Java (but not imported Java files)
Source... Current selection Current object
Languages... All objects Current language All languages
Design Reporting
Report Output
Add Tool
Shared Code and Shared Resources Sharing elements lets you reference a resource repeatedly throughout an
application, while only having to maintain in one standard place.
Image resources: graphic files that can be used throughout your applicationShared Fields: You can define a field for use on more than one formNon-NSF files: within and across databases
Subforms: A subform is a collection of fields, graphics, buttons, and actions you plan to use in more than one form
Script libraries: a place for storing code that can be shared in the current application using LotusScript, JavaScript, and Java or in other applications using JavaScript and Java
Shared Java files: For large Java applets with multiple files, it is most efficient to store some of the related files as shared resources in the database
Shared Actions: Use shared actions in forms, pages, folders, or views to set up user-activated tasks
Style sheets: cascading style sheet (CSS) to be inserted it into a page, form, or subform
Context Sensitive!!!
Document Locking
Set the database property "Allow document locking," Author access or higher can lock documents in that database.
Locking a document prevents editing and replication conflicts by ensuring that the document lock owner has exclusive access to modify the document
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading style sheets give you the ability to control many aspects of your page layout, including headers, links, text, fonts, styles, color, and margins.
Layers
Easier, more precise placement of design elements Use for:
Grouping design elements Absolute positioning Overlapping contents
Can be created in a Page, a Form or a Subform
Embedded Editors
Create or view multiple documents from within a form Preview documents selected from an embedded view
See Welcome Pages in bookmark.nsf for examples
Rich Text Lite Fields
Provides users with a fast way to add object into a field. When the user clicks the helper icon, a dialog box appears which corresponds to
the chosen element type. The elements listed in the drop-down menu are the only elements the user is
allowed to insert into the rich text lite field. Possible elements:
Pictures Shared Images Attachments Views Date Picker Shared Applets Text Ole Objects Calendar Inbox
– Help– Clear
Color Fields
A color field lets you display a color picker on a form. The chosen color is stored in hexidecimal format.
For example, red is stored as 000000FF.
Time Zone Fields
A time zone field lets you display a drop-down list of all available time zones in the world, including the local time zone.
Each time zone listed includes a partial list of the cities or locations found in that time zone.
Field Hints
Text that helps the user to fill in the field The text disappears when the user moves the cursor into the field,
and is not saved with the document
New Size and Style Options Rounded Buttons
Buttons
Table Enhancements
Control all options for Tab Labels
Size Tabs Equally
Indent First Tab
Convert Notes Table to HTML and vice versa
WYSIWYG HTML editing
Framesets Collapsible, and Captionable "Sticky" - Notes 6 remembers frame positions
Outline Entry Properties
Show unread count in folders
New display options in Standard Views
Background Images Background Grids Don't Show Empty Categories View Margins Column Total Colors Customize "Twisties" with your own icons Multiple column icons Many new date/time format options
User Customizable Views Programmers no longer have to tweak the view
design, satisfying all users with one design End users can change order and visibility of all
the view columns
View Enhancements
Create New Documents from View Edit Document in the view
Hide-when Columns
Use a hide-when formula to display a subset of documents Based on conditions in place when the view first displays For example, to hide documents from a particular user, click the
Advanced tab on the Column Properties box, check "Hide column if formula is true," and enter formula: @If(@Name([CN];@Username) = "John Smith")
Agents
New User Interface (properties box) New Security Tab (Run on Behalf Of, User Activation...) Converting a private agent to a shared agent, or a shared agent to
a private agent.
Remote Agent Debugger
You can use the remote debugger to step through and debug LotusScript agents running on the server
The agent you want to debug must be running at the time that you start the remote debugging tool
Three Steps Involved: 1. Enable remote debugging on the server 2. Enable remote debugging in the agent 3. Start the remote debugger
Release 6 distinguishes between the application of events to the Notes client and Web browser.
You code one JavaScript or LotusScript event for the Notes client and a separate JavaScript event for the Web browser.
The Event Model
More to think about...
XML... XML...XML... WebDav LEI 6 / Advanced Realtime Globalization (Multilingual applications) Accessibility Options Mobile Applications Off-line Applications (DOLS) Sametime Integration Websphere (J2EE), JSPs, Domino Tag Library DHTML Websphere Studio Application Designer Eclipse, www.eclipse.org Please see the new Lotus Developer Domain...
http://www.lotus.com/ldd
Each of these is a
presentation of it's own!
Thank you!Gary Devendorf
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