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AD303Extreme Makeover – IBM® Lotus® Domino® Application Edition

Ray BilykCertified InstructorData Planners, Inc.

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

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!

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 newfeatures that will improve application performance.

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

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.

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!

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

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])

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

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

Our demo application

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

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

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

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’

Form – Field formulas

� Review the field formulas

� Many times, code can be reused

� @ThisName

� @ThisValue

� CAUTION – Sometimes it’s okay to NOT share

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

More fun with views in Lotus Domino 7.0.2

� RSS feed generator

� Allowing more people to get the information in different ways

Adding Sametime to your application

� For a view:

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

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.”

If all else fails

� Remember…

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

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

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

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

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 Notesand Domino 7 and Beyond

� Jack Dausman & Allison Pang

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

Please remember to fill out your evaluation

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� Ray Bilyk

� Session:

� AD303

� Session Date:

� January 23 or January 25

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

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