Developing IBM Lotus Domino 8 Applications: Intermediate Skills

This course builds on the skills of Lotus Education's Fundamentals of IBM Lotus Domino Application Development (D8510) course. This is an instructor lecture with student-centered activities used to teach students to use IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8 to develop multi-database applications. This course explores advanced formula techniques and methods to develop interactions within applications.

The target audience for this course is application developers who have experience creating or modifying single database applications with Lotus Domino Designer 6, 7, or 8.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Use formula language to inspect and manipulate text values and lists, and use iterative statement functions.
• Implement functions that interact with users through different types of dialog boxes using the Prompt and DialogBox functions.
• Implement advanced view design features to enhance how Lotus Notes displays documents.
• Examine and use several IBM Lotus Domino design elements as navigation structures, including links and imagemaps.
• Create and embed an outline.
• Work with framesets and frames.
• Access data in Lotus Domino databases by using formula language and profile documents.
• Use the formula language to access data sources using the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface.
• Examine Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) and implement real-time data mapping between an IBM Lotus Domino application and a relational database.
• Implement workflow in Lotus Domino applications.
• Secure Lotus Domino application data by controlling access and encrypting data.