Hi,
I currently work for a company as a web designer/web programmer. I was recently asked to start learning/working with Domino Designer 6.5. Does anyone know where to get some beginner tutorials on how to use this program? In specific I want to create a custom company wide welcome page. Also, I would like to learn how to create applications with this program. Some ideas which are being tossed around are electronic timesheets (through Lotus Notes), and document retrieval. We basically want to create a company intranet through Lotus Notes. Please advise. Thank you.
Ryan
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Did you follow the URL above? And then you clicked on Tutorials under Learning Resources? There is a document called Building Web services using Lotus Domino 6, http://www6.software.ibm.c
Customizing the welcome page? In the browser I assume? You'd have to create a Notes database, fill it with forms, so you can install it in the server document as default URL. It's described in one sentence now, but you need a whole lot more! Building a website from scratch without any Notes knowledge within a week requires a superhuman effort. What's your background, are you a Notes user already?
Hi,
I have experience creating web pages/web applications. I have never used Domino Designer before. All I really want to do is customize the welcome page (for Notes Client and iNotes users) so it has our company logo, colors, etc. I have done this. I also want to add some forms for document retrieval, timesheets submission, and IS requests. I'm not really sure how to start programming this, and need a tutorial. Can you provide some examples of the ready-made Notes databases?
Ryan
I'm sorry if I sounded a bit patronizing or so, it's never intended. I just wanted to get things clear to be able to get you the advice you need. I'm so saint, but luckily there are many experts around in this TA, so don't worry.
Developing a Domino-website is a whole different ballgame. Domino will generate a lot of HTML for you, you have to bear that in mind. All you have to do is "fill in the gaps" and writing HTML is not required for a simple website. You absolutely need Domino Designer experience, building ordinary Notes databases.
I cannot give you a complete example, I don't have one, because if I build a website, I use a Domino-based product in which you get a lot of nice extensions (e.g. navigation bars) and website management is done using the Notes client, with all the usual document maintenance rights applicable to a Notes database. Domino contains a lot of features to create a web-enabled database, but the design has to be created or adapted by someone with Designer rights who also knows how the Domino Designer works. There are Framesets, Frames, Pages and Forms that can be defined, and lots of other stuff, far too much for me to explain here.
If you need an example: there used to be 3 or 4 web-enabled databases (websites) supplied with Notes R4, maybe also with R5. I haven't a clue whether they still exist in R6 (we used to delete those files immediately after installing a new client or server. You might check the installation CD or your server if those files still exist. Maybe someone else here knows about a website example database?
Notes cliennt and iNotes use completely different welcome pages. There is limited ability to customize iNotes -- all theinfo on that is contained in a pair redbooks. The more basic one is http://publib-b.boulder.ib
The Notes client welcome page comes from a local file, bookmark.nsf. There are a whole host of issues around deploying new welcome pages. You really need to look at the ADMINISTRATION documentation first, then look at how to customize the design elements involved.
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by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2004-05-25 at 07:01:46ID: 11151942
There are lot(u)s of products available for Notes/Domino suitable for website creation, so don't reinvent the wheel (although it's fun). All documentation can be found at http://www-136.ibm.com/dev