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  2. IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference

    Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.

  3. LotusScript® Language

    Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.

  4. Beyond Core LotusScript®

    This chapter discusses the role that LotusScript® plays with IBM® products, your operating environment, other programs, and interactive user applications.

  • IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference

    Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.

    • Application Design

      Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.

    • Domino® Designer templates

      The templates described in the following table are available with Domino® Designer and are specifically intended for use by application developers.

    • Importing to and exporting from views
    • Developing applications using MAPI

      Domino® Designer Release 6 and later supports the messaging application program interface (MAPI), which allows mail integration between Domino and a MAPI-compliant messaging application, such as Microsoft™ Outlook, Microsoft Office applications, or user-written C++ programs.

    • Features to avoid using in Web applications

      Developers creating applications specifically for the Web, or for the dual purpose of serving Notes® and Web clients, should review the following tables for features that are not supported on the Web.

    • URL commands for Web applications

      You have a variety of options for programming a Web site. You can directly manipulate objects such as documents or views in an application using Domino® URL commands. Adding Domino URL commands as HTML in forms gives users shortcuts for navigating databases and performing other tasks quickly.

    • Application Management

      Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.

    • Composite Applications - Design and Management

      Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. The ability to create and edit composite applications lets you easily integrate different types of components and technologies.

    • DB2® Access views

      Domino® Designer includes two types of design elements to assist you in managing data contained in DB2® enabled Notes® databases:

    • Programming Overview and User Interface

      This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.

    • Formula Language

      This section documents the formula language.

    • LotusScript® Language

      Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.

      • Introduction to LotusScript®

        This chapter introduces LotusScript® and describes, in general terms, how to use the script editor to write and modify scripts, how to compile scripts, and how to use the debugger to locate problems in the logic of your applications.

      • Script and Statement Construction Rules

        This chapter describes the rules for writing the basic elements of a script in the LotusScript® language.

      • Data Types, Constants, and Variables

        This chapter provides information about LotusScript® constants and variables and the data types of the values that they can represent.

      • Expressions and Operators

        This chapter describes the set of LotusScript® operators, how they may be combined with operands to form expressions, and how those expressions are evaluated.

      • Procedures: Functions, Subs, and Properties
      • File Handling

        This chapter describes file handling in the LotusScript® language.

      • Error Processing

        This chapter describes error processing in the LotusScript® language.

      • User-Defined Data Types and Classes

        This chapter describes two kinds of custom data structures that you can define in LotusScript®. Each can hold data of different types in a single data structure.

      • Managing Flow in Scripts

        The flow of execution of a script generally follows the sequence of statements in the script. This chapter describes the behavior of particular statements that alter the flow of execution.

      • Managing Asynchronous Web Agents in Domino®

        This chapter describes how to use multiple threads and synchronization to manage HTTP agents with Domino®.

      • Beyond Core LotusScript®

        This chapter discusses the role that LotusScript® plays with IBM® products, your operating environment, other programs, and interactive user applications.

        • IBM® software environments

          IBM® software provides the environment in which you create, debug, and run LotusScript® modules. IBM software applications that work with LotusScript supply their own application programming interface (API), which lets you use product functionality and create and manipulate product objects from within a LotusScript program. A IBM software API is effectively an extension to the LotusScript language that is available when you are running that product.

        • Interacting with the user

          IBM® products lend themselves to building interactive applications, applications that incorporate user input and prompt the user to perform particular tasks. While each individual IBM software application provides its own user interface for interacting with scripts, LotusScript® supplies some fundamental tools that you can use with any IBM software.

        • Interacting with other programs

          LotusScript® provides a number of functions and statements that you can use to interact with other programs and the operating system. You can also use Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) to incorporate functionality and data from other Windows™ applications into your LotusScript applications.

        • Calling external C language functions

          LotusScript® allows you to call external C language functions. You implement external C functions inside a named library module that generally contains several C functions. With Windows™, this is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL). All Windows users have access to the libraries in the Windows application programming interface (API).

        • LS2J: Connecting with Java™

          Using LotusScript® and LS2J, you can access Java™ classes, giving you a powerful cross-platform extension to LotusScript. Developers can access Java in LotusScript programs as a set of predefined LotusScript objects. This set of objects allow LotusScript to use already created Java classes that are available in script libraries or found using the classpath.

      • LotusScript® Language Reference

        This chapter describes the use of statements, built-in functions, subs, data types, and directives in the LotusScript® language.

      • Language and Script Limits

        This appendix describes LotusScript® language limits of several kinds: for example, the legal ranges in data representation, the limits on numerical specifications within statements, and the maximum number of different kinds of elements that can be defined in a script.

      • Platform Differences

        The LotusScript® language and functionality on the UNIX™ platform, the Macintosh platform, and the OS/400® platform differ in various ways from the language and functionality described in the rest of this language reference. This appendix describes the differences.

      • LotusScript/REXX Integration

        This appendix provides an overview of REXX integration in the LotusScript® language.

      • LotusScript® Aliases

        This appendix lists the LotusScript® aliases and their equivalent text.

      • MIME Charset Names
      • Compile-time Error Messages

        This chapter describes the compile-time error messages in the LotusScript® language.

      • Run-time Error Messages

        This chapter describes the run-time error messages in the LotusScript® language.

    • LotusScript/COM/OLE Classes
    • Java/CORBA Classes

      This section documents the Java/CORBA classes.

    • Lotus® Connectors

      Lotus® Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.

    • Javadoc™ for Domino® Designer related APIs

      As part of providing additional Java™ reference documentation, Domino® Designer ships with a help plugin that contains Javadoc™ for additional Domino Designer related APIs.

    • Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts

      Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.

Beyond Core LotusScript®

This chapter discusses the role that LotusScript® plays with IBM® products, your operating environment, other programs, and interactive user applications.

IBM® software environments

Interacting with the user

Interacting with other programs

Calling external C language functions

LS2J: Connecting with Java™

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