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AD303Extreme Makeover – IBM® Lotus® Domino® Application Edition

Ray BilykCertified InstructorData Planners, Inc.

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Ray Bilyk

IBM Certified Instructor IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 7 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.x Certified Lotus Instructor (CLI) since release 4

IBM Certified Advanced Developer & Administrator since R4.x Certified in IBM AIX, Microsoft, Novell as well

Instructor and Primary Support at Data Planners, Inc.(Southfield, Michigan)

Speaker and Member of Detroit Notes Professionals User Group

Blogger / Podcaster http://www.thepridelands.com http://thepridelands.podshow.com

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My REAL ‘claims to fame’

Grappled with (and DEFEATED) two professional wrestlers

Bowled a perfect game at a tournament in 1998

Counselor for inner-city youth group since 1988

Proud father of Kiara Anne!

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Session description

Your once ‘state of the art’ applications are now showing their age, which means it’s time for an ‘extreme makeover’. You'll learn how to take a Lotus Notes and Domino application and apply new features from Notes and Domino releases 6 and 7 that make your old applications look and act like new. Watch not only how an old application can be given a visual makeover, but how to apply new features that will improve application performance.

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Agenda

What is an ‘Extreme Makeover’?

What it is NOT…

First Steps

What’s New in release 6.x and 7

Where do we go from here?

Database properties

Other design properties

If all else fails…

Conclusion

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What is an “Extreme Makeover”?

According to Wikipedia:A television program from ABC in which individuals volunteer to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Makeover

According to me:Taking an IBM Lotus Domino application created in previous versions of Notes/Domino and applying ‘new’ technology and features to improve the look (and possibly the performance) of the application.

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What this “Extreme Makeover” is NOT…

It is NOT ‘rip and replace’ ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ has a tendency to tear the house

down and rebuild a new one This is usually NOT necessary in Notes/Domino

It is NOT necessarily ‘Best Practices’ Sessions like that will be mentioned at the end

It is NOT a code giveaway

It is NOT a session on every feature currently available

It is NOT Ty Pennington’s session!

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First Steps

Examine existing application What works? What doesn’t work?

Find the application audience Current audience Future audience?

Look at it with ‘new eyes’ Have existing audience examine the application Let a neutral audience check it out

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What’s new?

In Release 6 @ThisName and @ThisValue Field hints New field type: Rich Text Lite Embedded elements Goodbye layout regions… Hello Layers! Color fields Enhancements to tabbed tables Changing the twistie image Allowing view customizations Creating documents at a view level View style options Adding colors to a view @Command([EditRestoreDocument])

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What’s new?

In Release 7 RSS feed generation (7.0.2) Shared columns Autosaving documents Tighter Sametime Integration Using web services design elements Agent profiling Store, view and access application data in DB2 Adding actions to the right mouse click menu New @Functions and LotusScript Methods/Properties

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Where do we go from here?

Database Properties

Form(s) Layout Field formulas

Views

Remember to evaluate for either Notes clients, Web clients, or both

Database Performance

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Our demo application

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Database Properties

If you see this in your Advanced tab, your ODS is version 20

Upgrade the ODS to 43 by selecting the database from the Files tab of the Domino Administrator. In the Tools pane, selectDatabase -> Compact.

Verify that the database extension is not .ns4 or .ns5

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Advanced Database Properties

Now that we have the Advanced properties... Don’t maintain unread marks Document table bitmap optimization Don't overwrite free space Maintain Last Accessed property Disable transaction logging Allow soft deletions Don't support specialized response hierarchy Don't allow headline monitoring Allow more fields in database Use LZ1 compression for attachments Limiting the number of entries in the $UpdatedBy & $Revisions fields

Check Domino Designer Help – ‘Properties that improve database performance’ for more information

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Form - Layout

Layout will depend on whether it is a Notes-based application or a Web-based application

Many options are available, but remember that cleaner is better

One way an application can be modified is through style sheets

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Adding CSS to the application

Cascading style sheets (CSS) is an easy way to give the application a consistant look and feel

Domino supports many style sheet properties including: Background color Font Border and margin options

A complete list of properties can be found in Domino Designer Help

Try it today at HND105 ‘The Ultimate Make-Over of an IBM Lotus Domino Site Using CSS’ Goes with session BP306 ‘How to Make IBM Lotus Domino Sites That Don't

Look (or Act) Like Lotus Domino’

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Form – Field formulas

Review the field formulas

Many times, code can be reused @ThisName @ThisValue

CAUTION – Sometimes it’s okay to NOT share

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Views

Shared Columns… more sharing goodness

Using views to create documents

Adding colors to a view

Soft deletions view @Command( [EditRestoreDocument] ) NOTE: @Command does NOT work from the Web

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More fun with views in Lotus Domino 7.0.2

RSS feed generator Allowing more people to get the information in different ways

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Adding Sametime to your application

For a view:

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Adding Sametime to your application

For a field (for a Name data type):

You can even assign a Contact List Group label for the field

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Database performance

Besides database properties…

Required reading: IBM Redbook - Performance Considerations for Domino Applications (IBM Form Number SG24-5602-00)

nsftools.com – Julian Robichaux‘12 Thoughts About Making Code More Efficient’ http://www.nsftools.com/blog/blog-09-2003.htm#09-08-03

Best advice from Julian…“Know when to say when.”

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If all else fails

Remember…

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Application Development with Lotus softwareNew Web Site!

Visit today!ibm.com/lotus/appdev

(Enhancements planned throughout 1Q)

Discover how Lotus software helps you develop Productivity Applications for your People

You will learn:How Lotus software helps address

your application development needs.Key technical benefits you can

realize through Lotus software.The combined Lotus software

offerings that deliver these benefits

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Other Sessions of Interest

JMP301 JavaScript and AJAX JumpStartHND104 AJAX for IBM Lotus Domino Hands-On Scott Good

JMP201 IBM Lotus Notes Development for Non-Developers Kevin Pettitt

BP104 Worst Practices in IBM Lotus Domino Environments Bill Buchan & Paul Mooney

AD304 IBM Lotus Domino Web Access Customization Vinod Seraphin & Shu Sia Lukito

AD502 Creating Maintainable IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Applications Rocky Oliver

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Other Sessions of Interest - continued

BP306 How to Make IBM Lotus Domino Sites That Don't Look(or Act) Like Lotus DominoHND105 The Ultimate Make-Over of an IBM Lotus Domino Site Using CSS Scott Good & Henry Newberry

BP311 The Great Code Giveaway – Web 2.0 Edition Viktor Krantz & Rob Novak

AD401 Leveraging AJAX Frameworks to Build IBM Lotus Domino Web Applications Vinod Seraphin & Akira Sudoh

AD402 @Formulas Meet AJAX Jack Ratcliff

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Other Sessions of Interest - continued

ID109 IBM Lotus Notes Hints, Tips, and Tricks Alan Lepofsky

AD505 DevBlast - 30 LotusScript Tips Bill Buchan

BP101 Designing the User Experience: Why Your Interface Matters Chris Blatnick, Nathan Freeman

BOF507 OpenNTF - An Open Source Community Bruce Elgort

AD305 Application Development with IBM Lotus Domino and IBM DB2 IntegrationHND106 IBM Lotus Domino NSFDB2: Development and Integration Hands-On Robert Bertolino, Patrick Mancuso & Giancarlo Giannini

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Other Sessions of Interest - continued

AD510 How to Deploy IBM Lotus Domino Applications to Mobile Phones Michael Brung, David Girle

ID215 IBM Lotus Domino and RSS Mac Guidera & Dan Gurney

BP305 From Retro to Rocket: Retooling R5 apps to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 and Beyond Jack Dausman & Allison Pang

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Additional Sites and Information

CodeStore – www.codestore.net

OpenNTF – www.openntf.org

Taking Notes Podcast – takingnotes.openntf.org Bruce Elgort & Julian Robichaux

IdoNotes Podcast – idonotes.com Chris Miller

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Please remember to fill out your evaluation

Name of Speaker Ray Bilyk

Session: AD303

Session Date: January 23 or January 25

Session slides found athttp://www.thepridelands.com

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