Lotus Domino 6.5 to 7 Developer Update Course

Notes 7 and its applications have evolved to be more usable and powerful than ever before, while Domino 7 has been improved both at its core with its support for DB2 and at the edge with the ability to host Web Services.

During this course participants will learn how to use the new features of Domino Designer 7 and what a developer must do to support the many enhancements to Notes and Domino.
 
Note: This course only touches on Domino’s ability to use DB2 as its data store, Domino Access Views, and Query Views.

This course is designed as a half-day seminar/lecture and demonstration course, but can be lengthened and modified to include hands-on activities.

This course is designed for experienced Notes and Domino 6.5 developers who plan to upgrade their environment and applications to Notes and Domino 7.

Participants will find the course especially rewarding if they have already used Notes 7 and bring questions to class.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
> Use the new design lists features to view more information and exercise greater control over design elements at the list level
> Use Shared Columns across multiple Views or Folders
> Increase productivity by using the new Designer user interface features
> Modify Form designs to allow users to use the new AutoSave feature
> Program Notes applications to restrict users from entering both Notes and OS style Fields by coding the Input Enabled event
> Create right-click menu options in Views and Folders
> Modify an application to use the new Discover Folders feature
> Explain how Domino 7 utilizes DB2 as an optional database engine and how to develop Domino Access Views and Query Views
> Apply the new Formula, LotusScript, and Java language enhancements
> Create Web Services to be served by the Domino 7 HTTP server task
> Use Profiling and Domino Domain Monitoring Application Probes to troubleshoot and performance tune your Agent and Web Service code

Domino Designer 7 Usability
Design Lists
Column information
Column behavior
Sign button
 
Shared Columns
Create Shared Column
Insert Shared Column
Find Views where a Shared Column has been used

Other Domino Designer Changes
Prompt on exit
Close all Designer windows
Enable LotusScript Debugger

Application Design
Document AutoSave
How AutoSave works
AutoSave timeline
If user never saved the document: Scenario 1
Manually run AutoSave
If user never saved the document: Scenario 2
AutoSave prerequisites

Other Notes Application Design Changes
Input Enabled event for Notes style Fields
Right-click actions in Views
Discover Folders
Multiple user-defined columns

Additional DB2 Database Engine
DB2 as an alternate data store
DB2 Access Views
Query Views

Programmability
Programming Languages
Formula language
Command language
LotusScript
Java enhancements

Web Services
Web Services basics
Domino 7 and Web Services
Web Service design element
Coding the events using LotusScript
Show WSDL
Import an existing WSDL
Poking at a Web Service with a browser
Debugging a Web Service
 
Agent and Web Services Profiler and DDM Probes
Profiling
DDM Application Probes

If you are new to Notes and Domino with this release, this is not the right course for you to take, as it assumes significant prior knowledge of Notes and Domino 6.5. You should, instead, participate in a series of Domino developer training courses.
 
This course only covers changes relevant to Domino Designer. To learn more about:
> Upgrading to Notes 7 and Domino 7 software and their standard applications (administrators), take the Domino 6.5 to 7 Administrator Update course
> Upgrading to Notes 7 (users), take the Lotus Notes 6.5 to 7 User Update course.

If you missed the Notes/Domino 5 to 6.x upgrade, we have these courses to prepare you for the Notes/Domino 6.5 to 7 upgrade courses:
> Lotus Domino 6.5 Developer Update
> Lotus Domino 6.5 Administrator Update
> Update to Notes 6.5