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Programming Languages for Lotus Domino Designer R5: LotusScript
Lotus Training Overview

During this course you will thoroughly explore most of the Domino Object Model classes accessible to LotusScript™. The primary emphasis of the course is not on LotusScript itself, but rather on how to use basic LotusScript language elements to operate on the Domino object classes, including databases, views, documents, fields, and ACL settings.

This course is not a beginning programming class or a mere overview presentation of the LotusScript implementation in Domino and the Notes Client. You will spend a good portion of the course coding in LotusScript and debugging code that will have immediate application beyond the term of the course.

Lotus Training Learning Objectives

This course will:

  • build a fundamental knowledge of LotusScript and how it is used to instantiate and execute Domino Object Model classes
  • show appropriate use LotusScript to meet application goals
  • provide extensive programming and debugging experience to ensure mastery of LotusScript techniques and Domino Object Model classes
  • understand the relationship between LotusScript and Notes data types
  • build a practical understanding of data validation and error trapping.
Lotus Training Audience

This course is designed for Domino Programmers. It assumes that you have:

  • atleast six months Domino application development experience
  • thorough knowledge of the Domino Designer 5 development environment, including form, view, and agent design, as well as how to use properties boxes and set the ACL
  • mastered the topics covered in Basic Applications for Domino Designer.
The course does not review any aspects of the non-LotusScript specific development environment.

Though not required, experience in any event-driven or structured programming language is helpful in understanding how to maximize the use of LotusScript. If you have used LotusScript in other Lotus applications or have built applications using Microsoft® Visual Basic™, you won't find this course repetitive as it focuses mostly on the Domino Object Model.


Lotus Training Course duration

4 days

Lotus Training Course design

The core of this course is hands-on coding experience using LotusScript. It only peripherally explores the principles of programming and does not attempt to cover every option of every object class.

The course takes a task-oriented approach, during which you will create programs that are extremely portable across applications and easy to move from buttons to fields to agents.

All code fragments are labeled to make talking about them and reusing them in exercises easier. The intent in labeling them is also to help build a sense of modularity, purpose, and a way of "thinking" about LotusScript.

Lotus Training Course outline

Day1

Topic 1: The Place of LotusScript in Domino
 
Programming languages used in Domino
What is LotusScript?
Advantages of LotusScript
When to use LotusScript
Where the code runs
LotusScript respects security
What LotusScript can NOT do
Limits and performance
Resources

Topic 2: Object Events
 
Event-driven language
Event code
Entering LotusScript code
Exercise: Create button event script
What is the sequence of events?
Query what? Post what?
Exercise: Experience the Event Model
What happened? Create document events
Recalculate document event
Save document event
Close document event
Switch modes events
Read document events
Agent events
Database events
View events
Field events Changing event code function name

Topic 3: Language Fundamentals
 
Basic language rules
Variables
Declaring variables
Advantages of explicit declaration
Constants
User-defined data types
Statements versus functions
Exercise: Experience LotusScript functions
String functions
Math functions
Date functions
Data conversion
Boolean operators
How Designer Help helps

Topic 4: Program Control Structures
 
Program structure
Experience control structures
Branching structures
Exercise: Branching structures
MessageBox (Msgbox) parameters and return values
Looping structures
Looping performance
Code benchmarking
Exercise: Looping
Accepting user input
How to exit a structure
Breaking out of an endless loop
Exercise: Exit structure

Topic 5: Debugging
 
Script errors
Remarking code
Debugger
Finding errors
Debugger buttons
Debugger tabs
Exercise: Using the Debugger
Exercise: Break Points
Debugging with MsgBox
Public variables
Exercise: Public variables

Topic 6: Data Validation and Error Trapping
 
Check for empty variable
Failure to exit loop
Check data type
Other data type tests
Exercise: Data validation
Error Handler
For more help
Resume after error
Goto after error
Specific error trapping
LSS files and error handling
Determining the Err code
Exercise: Error trapping
Multiple error handlers

Topic 7: Domino Object Model
 
What is an object?
User-defined object classes
Product-defined object classes
Domino Object Model
Back-end vs. Front-end classes
Back-end object classes
Front-end object classes
How Designer Help helps
Adding object classes

Day 2

Topic 8: Domino Object Instantiation
 
Object instantiation
Container objects
Object reference variables
Use generic object names
Access current database using back-end methods
Using Designer Help
Exercise: Object Containers
Access other databases using back-end methods
Exercise: Object in another database
Public declarations of Domino Objects
When do you have to use "New"?
Domino object properties
Read object property
Set object property
Chaining references
Domino object methods
Running methods
Three types of methods
Exercise: Open method
LotusScript is not a keystroke macro language
Interacting with users via front-end methods
Exercise: Open database for user
Delete an object

Topic 9: NotesSession Operations
 
Session properties
NotesName object class
NOTES.INI access
Data type assignment from environment
Exercise: Set environment

Topic 10: NotesDatabase Operations
 
Paths to instantiate NotesDatabase
Select and open database
Ways to create a new NotesDatabase object
Access to "local" databases
Is the database really open?
Exercise: Database Info
NotesReplication class
Exercise: NotesReplication class
Open database for user
Open a database by property
Three types of error trapping
Exercise: Find database
Create non-replica database copy
Who can create a database?
Copying documents to new database
Exercise: Database Copy
Error handler review
Create replica copy
New database from template
ACL of new database from using template
Delete database
Case Study

Topic 11: New Document Operations
 
New document (back-end)
Create and save a new document via back-end
New document using form (front-end)
Document properties
Exercise: Scripted action buttons

Topic 12: Item Operations
 
Create a new item Option 1: Extended class syntax
Data type of a new item
Create a new item Option 2: NotesItem object New method
Item properties you can write
Create a new item Option 3: Document object methods
Create a new item Option 4: AppendItemValue method
Reading item values Option 1: Extended class syntax
Reading item values Option 2: NotesItem object Values property
Reading item values Option 3: NotesDocument object methods
Modifying existing item values
Ensuring that an item exists
Reading all items
Removing items
Using front-end UI methods in current document
Using the "Source" object reference variable
Exercise: Flip-Flop via front-end methods
NotesUIDocument limitations
Using back-end methods on the current document
Exercise: Flip-Flop via Back-End methods

Topic 13: NotesItem Validation
 
Check empty object
Example: Check empty object
Check for empty item (field)
Accessing fields in a form
Simple field validation
Field focus
Exercise: Item validation

Topic 14: Document Collections
 
Document selection
Document collections
NotesDocumentCollection collection
GetNextDocument requirements
Exercise: Loop through NotesDocumentCollection
Solution: Loop through NotesDocumentCollection
Adding or removing documents from a collection
Document collection operations
NotesView collection
Exercise: Loop through NotesView
Solution: Loop through NotesView
NotesDocument object ColumnValues property
Refreshing a view
Primary key and view concerns
Processing child documents
Iterating all levels of a document hierarchy
Sibling documents
Accessing the parent document
NotesViewEntryCollection collection
NotesViewEntry and NotesDocument objects
Exercise: Status Summary
Solution: Status Summary
NotesViewNavigator class
Other collections

Topic 15: Search Methods
 
NotesDocumentCollection by full text search
The query
Search fields
Special search fields
Search options
Domain Search
Using the results
About the accuracy of full text search
Refining an existing collection
Exercise: FTSearch Method
NotesDocumentCollection by search
Search method performance
Exercise: Search summary
Solution: Search summary
Switching search methods on-the-fly
Build a collection by view key
Example: Build a collection by view key
Agent scope and search

Topic 16: Unprocessed Documents
 
UnprocessedDocuments method to select documents for users
Efficient processing by agents
Unprocessed flag and agents
Unprocessed search accuracy
Exercise: Unprocessed Documents

Day 3

Topic 17: Existing Document Operations
 
Make a copy of the current document
Delete document
Exercise: Archive selected documents
Delete current document
IsValid document? IsDeleted document?
IsDeleted and soft deletes
Delete documents while looping through a collection
Open user-selected document
Put document in folder
Exercise: Put documents in folder
Remove document(s) from folder
Remove folders
Make response document
Current document on the Web

Topic 18: Domino Data Validation
 
Form translation and validation
Read and write items in another document
Batch document processing
Exercise: Batch document renumbering
Batch document processing with intelligence
Exercise: Batch processing with intelligence
Exercise solution:
DelayUpdates property

Topic 19: Arrays and Multi-Value Items
 
Array basics
How to declare an array
Assign values to an array
Read single array element value
Iteratively read array elements
Find an array element
Replace values in an array
Determine the number of elements in an array
Remove blank elements
Create a dynamic array
Resize a dynamic array
Erase array values
Exercise: Dynamic array
Append one array to another array
Multi- dimension arrays
Items and Multi-Value Fields
Arrays and multi-value fields
Type mismatches
Reading an array of strings or array of objects?
Set multi-value field in current document
Append to existing multi-value field
Exercise: Translate a multi-value field
How does an "Item" differ from a "Field"?

Topic 20: Date-Time Items Operations
 
How time is stored
Date and Time in LotusScript
NotesDateTime object
Date/Time parameter format

Topic 21: Rich Text Item Operations
 
Rich text primer
Create rich text item
Accessing existing rich text items
Things you can append to rich text item
Append text
Append spacing
Append style
Append DocLink
Exercise: Order Report
Attachments
Abstracting rich text

Topic 22: Evaluate @Functions
 
Which @Functions can NOT be used?
Why use @Functions?
Syntax
Sum two fields
String functions
Uppercase field
@Functions outside of object context
Summing an array
Lookups
User Access
Exercise: Using @Functions
Performance implications

Topic 23: Mail Documents
 
Send mail
Example agent
Send method parameters
Recipient requirements
Source database
Exercise: Send message
Optional properties and fields
Exercise: Status Checker Agent
Solution: Status Checker Agent

Day 4

Topic 24: Newsletters
 
Newsletter objects
Instantiating the NotesNewsletter object
Exercise: Newsletter report
Case Study: Custom Search form
Sending "teasers"
Searching the domain with FTDomainSearch
Coding the FTDomainSearch method

Topic 25: User Interface Control
 
OpenFileDialog
Server + Database dialog box
SaveFileDialog
Prompt
PicklistCollection
PicklistStrings
Exercise: PickListStrings
Free Time dialogs
Folder dialog
DialogBox
Where you can call the DialogBox method
Back-end to Front-end interaction
Reloading document to show rich text
Compute with form
Status information
Case study: Bring the data here

Topic 26: Event Control
 
NotesUIDatabase and NotesUIView objects
Continue value
Stopping a form from closing
Stopping users from deleting documents in folders
Stopping users from pasting documents

Topic 27: Managing Database Access
 
Why control the ACL with LotusScript?
Minimum access requirements
Find a known ACL entry level
Current user access
ACL level constants
Iterate ACL entries
Add an ACL entry
When to save ACL changes
-Default- special handling
Exercise: Set ACL
Change the level of an entry
Rename an entry
Delete an entry
Exercise: ACL control
Set entry flags
Set entry type
Add a role
Associate a user with a role
Disassociate user from role
Rename role
Remove a role
ACL and replication

Topic 28: Profile Documents
 
What profile documents are used for
The nature of profile documents
Create profile document
Back-end method to access profile document
Read profile fields
List profile documents
Delete profile document

Topic 29: Procedures and Script Libraries
 
Advantages to user-defined procedures
Where to define procedures
Example: Sub procedure
Example: Function
Exercise: Value translation
Script Library
Call a procedure from the Script Library
Exercise: Using a Script Library
Process all child documents
Find root parent document
Resource strings
Script Library pointers

Topic 30: File I/O Operations
 
Opening a file for operation
Reading lines from a file
Read performance
Delete a file
Create a file
Exercise: Append to text file
Export records to text file
Easy comma delimited export
Import records from text file

Topic 31: DLL Procedures
 
Declare DLL procedure
Call the DLL Procedure
GetFolderName
Read/Write INI file
Get registry value
Close any Notes window
Run file from Notes

Topic 32: Component Object Model
 
COM and OLE
Object hierarchy
Three ways to instantiate OLE objects
Object identifiers
Starting and stopping an application
Example 1: Create object in PostOpen event
Example 2: Create Excel object from file
Example 3: Create new Excel object and set formula
Example 4: Create new Excel chart object
Example 5: Create new Word object
Example 6: Work with embedded object
Troubleshooting


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