Use Lotus Notes R6 to accomplish real-world, professional tasks. Incorporating five hands-on projects, Lotus Notes R6 Professional Projects is your key to unlocking the power of this latest version of Lotus Notes. Each project focuses on a specific concept and is based on a real-world situation. You will be able to use the skills that you develop throughout the book to modify the projects to fit your professional needs.
Create a Reference Application: Using Domino Designer R6, create an Employee Handbook application that users will access with Lotus Notes client. As you create this online version of a policies and procedures manual, you will enhance your ability to create forms, views, and navigational elements as well as to apply security features in a Notes application.
Create a Collaborative Application: Create a collaborative Notes Discussion database that allows users to share their views in a common forum by beginning discussions for posting responses. Using LotusScript, you will learn how to create an agent for generating newsletters in Notes applications.
Create a Workflow and Tracking Application: Using an existing Domino database, create a Customer Complaint Tracking application that sends notifications and reminders, contains secured user sections, and tracks the status of a complaint. As you create your application, you will learn the components of workflow, how to route a document and create notification, and how to implement roles.
Create a Notes Application to Access Non-Notes Databases: Using Domino Designer R6, create a Leave Processing application that tracks employees who have scheduled for leave. You will use LotusScript Data Objects to enable your application to access enterprise data stored in a back-end Oracle database.
Create a Web-Enabled Notes Application: Create an Online Order Processing System that allows customers to place and track orders. As you develop the basic framework for your application and then enhance it using HTML and JavaScript, you will learn how to program for server-side events and client-side events. You will also learn how to make use of CGI variables in a Domino Web application.