Munchausen Consulting Corporation: The Solution (03/07/2008)
... To implement this solution, the development team has decided to use Domino Designer R6. The reference application should provide the following features: Content Organization Content Publishing Personalization The details of these features are discussed in the following sections. Content Organization The reference application is a repository of all company policies, procedures, guidelines, regulations, and formats to be used for various purposes, such as the leave application form. To enable the employees to use the application in an easy and efficient manner, the application needs to organize the content in the most appropriate manner. The content organization should map to the manual employee handbook so that the employees can relate to it when using the application....

Project Life Cycle Application (03/07/2008)
... As the name suggests, during this phase, the application is deployed at the client location. In addition, support is provided to the client for a particular period that takes care of any bugs that might occur in the application after deployment. The various stages in the project execution phase are discussed in the following sections. Requirements Analysis This phase involves identifying the various functional requirements of the application. The development team studied the current manual system of the employee handbook and interviewed the employees to identify their requirements....

Creating Newsletters with Lotus Notes R6 (03/06/2008)
... While it is easy to set up an agent, which uses simple actions to implement the newsletter, it imposes certain limitations. It does not offer you the flexibility to handle complex tasks, such as creating newsletters based on interest profiles of end users. You can use the Newsletter class for the implementation using LotusScript or Java. The methods and properties available for the class are the same in both LotusScript and Java, except for their naming conventions. In the current context, LotusScript is used....

Domino LotusScript Classes (03/06/2008)
... This class does not contain any properties or methods. Navigator The Navigator class is used to access a navigator object in a database. This class also does not contain any properties or methods. NotesUIDatabase The NotesUIDatabase class, contained in the NotesUIWorkspace class, is used to access a database that is currently open in the Notes workspace. This class contains NotesDatabase and NotesDocumentCollection classes....

Collaborative Applications (03/04/2008)
... The application framework provides end users with services such as security, newsletter, archiving, and notification. Its also provides a UI for interacting with the application and acts as a repository. Below, you may see the framework of a collaborative application. Discussion forum and Team Room are examples of collaborative applications that are shipped along with Notes. Uses of a Collaborative Application These are some advantages of collaborative applications: They help people exchange thoughts and ideas and share mind space....

A Collaborative Discussion Application (03/04/2008)
... Main Topic Documents Main topic documents contain the main topic of discussion. In addition to the main discussion body, these documents contain the name of the person who initiated the discussion and the location of the initiator, the subject of the discussion, and the topic category. The topic category is used to specify whether the discussion is general or related to customer feedback. Main topic documents are used whenever a new discussion is initiated or customer feedback is entered. Response to Main Topic Documents These documents are created as responses to the main topic documents that already exist....

Types of Notes Applications (03/02/2008)
... It should be easy to organize the content into different sections or chapters when authoring. It should be possible to segregate the content based on the target audience. A topics index should be provided so that users can easily understand the organization of the content. Searching for a word or a phrase should be easy. It should enable navigation to the related topics....

Types of Domino Applications (02/28/2008)
... This type of application is typically used for discussions. A discussion application is used as a forum for exchanging thoughts and inviting feedback from other users. Tracking. This type of application is used to track the status of any item, such as a customer complaint, a credit card number, or a document life cycle. Broadcasting....