Practical LotusScript / Anthony Patton.

By: Patton, Anthony, 1969-.

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BookPublisher: Greenwich, CT : Manning, c1999Description: xxii, 488 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1884777767 .Subject(s): LotusScript (Computer program language)

DDC classification: 005.36

Contents:

Lotus Notes integrated development environment -- LotusScript basics-the foundation -- Functions and subroutines -- Objects : working with classes -- Working with arrays, lists, collections, and items -- Working with files -- Error processing and activity logging -- Events -- Working with the ACL -- NotesItem -- Embedded objects and OLE -- Office 97 -- Searching -- Reports -- LotusScript data objects -- Working with date/time values -- Working outside the domino/Notes environment -- LotusScript and the web -- Input validation, NotesAgent class, and script libraries -- Notes 5.0 -- Working with NotesPump.

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An overview that goes beyond the basics provided by other manuals to supply details on power programming with LotusScript in the Notes environment.

"Programming with lotus notes/domino"--Cover.
Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

preface (p. xvii)
how this book is organized (p. xviii)
Author Online (p. xx)
special thanks (p. xxi)
1 Lotus Notes integrated development environment (p. 1)
1.1 Chapter objectives (p. 2)
1.2 Elements of the IDE (p. 2)
Colors (p. 4)
LotusScript Help (p. 4)
Errors (p. 5)
Debugging (p. 5)
Importing/Exporting (p. 7)
Printing (p. 8)
Limitations (p. 8)
1.3 Chapter summary (p. 8)
1.4 Chapter review (p. 8)
2 LotusScript basics--the foundation (p. 11)
2.1 Chapter objectives (p. 12)
2.2 Variables (p. 13)
Data Type Minimum/Maximum Value (p. 13)
Declaring and using variables (p. 13)
Constants (p. 14)
Explicit/Implicit (p. 14)
Options (p. 15)
Converting from one type to another (p. 16)
The special variable type: Variant (p. 17)
Determining the type of a variable (p. 17)
2.3 Indentifiers (p. 18)
2.4 Looping (p. 19)
For (p. 19)
Do (p. 20)
While (p. 21)
Forall (p. 22)
2.5 Other methods to affect code execution (p. 22)
If (p. 22)
Select Case (p. 23)
Stopping execution (p. 23)
Goto (p. 24)
2.6 Interacting with the user (p. 25)
Print (p. 25)
MessageBox (p. 25)
InputBox (p. 28)
2.7 Commenting your code (p. 29)
2.8 Strings (p. 29)
Mid(String2Change, starting_position, optional_length) = String2GetCharacters (p. 30)
UCase/LCase(string) (p. 30)
Len(String) (p. 31)
Trim/LTrim/RTrim(String) (p. 31)
Left(String)/Right(String) (p. 32)
Instr(optional_starting_point, string1, string2, optional_compare_method) (p. 32)
2.9 Format function (p. 33)
2.10 Predefined constants (p. 34)
2.11 UnderScore (continuation) (p. 34)
2.12 Chapter summary (p. 35)
2.13 Chapter review (p. 35)
3 Functions and subroutines (p. 37)
3.1 Chapter objectives (p. 38)
3.2 Functions (p. 38)
3.3 Subroutines (p. 40)
Using subroutines (p. 41)
Creating your own function/subroutines (p. 41)
Built-in subs/functions (p. 41)
3.4 Scope/visibility (p. 42)
3.5 Chapter summary (p. 44)
3.6 Chapter review (p. 44)
4 Objects: working with classes (p. 45)
4.1 Chapter objectives (p. 46)
4.2 What is an object or class? (p. 46)
Dot notation (p. 47)
Defining your own classes (p. 48)
4.3 Designing classes (p. 48)
Me (p. 49)
Creating the class (p. 49)
With ... End With (p. 50)
Constructors and destructors (p. 51)
Using classes, creating objects (p. 52)
Delete (p. 53)
Is, IsA, and IsObject (p. 53)
Garbage collection (p. 54)
Property (Get/Set) (p. 54)
Arrays of objects (p. 55)
4.4 Front-end/back-end classes (p. 56)
Front-end classes (p. 57)
NotesUIWorkspace (p. 57)
NotesUIDocument (p. 57)
Back-end classes (p. 57)
NotesSession (p. 57)
NotesDatabase (p. 58)
NotesView (p. 58)
NotesDocument (p. 58)
4.5 Chapter example (p. 59)
4.6 Chapter summary (p. 60)
4.7 Chapter review (p. 61)
5 Working with arrays, lists, collections, and items (p. 63)
5.1 Chapter objectives (p. 64)
5.2 Arrays (p. 64)
Forall (p. 65)
LotusScript statements (p. 66)
Dynamic arrays (p. 67)
Multidimension arrays (p. 69)
Variation (p. 70)
Limitations (p. 71)
5.3 Lists (p. 71)
ListTag (p. 71)
5.4 NotesDocumentCollection (p. 74)
5.5 Working with response documents (p. 76)
Number of documents (p. 77)
Traversing a collection (p. 77)
Refining a collection (p. 78)
5.6 NotesItem (p. 79)
HasItem (p. 81)
5.7 Chapter example (p. 82)
5.8 Chapter summary (p. 84)
5.9 Chapter review (p. 84)
6 Working with files (p. 85)
6.1 Chapter objectives (p. 86)
6.2 Opening (p. 86)
Freefile (p. 87)
6.3 Closing (p. 88)
6.4 Reading/writing (p. 89)
Reading (p. 89)
Writing (p. 89)
EOF (filenumber) (p. 90)
LOF (filenumber) (p. 90)
LOC (filenumber) (p. 90)
6.5 Sequential access (p. 91)
6.6 Random access (p. 94)
6.7 Binary access (p. 97)
6.8 Directories (p. 98)
Dir (p. 98)
CurDrive, ChDrive, CurDir, ChDir (p. 100)
More LotusScript for working with files (p. 101)
6.9 NotesDBDirectory class (p. 102)
Methods (p. 102)
6.10 Platforms (p. 104)
6.11 Chapter example (p. 105)
6.12 Chapter summary (p. 107)
6.13 Chapter review (p. 107)
7 Error processing and activity logging (p. 109)
7.1 Chapter objectives (p. 110)
7.2 Error trapping (p. 110)
Resume (p. 111)
Handling specific errors (p. 111)
Handling user-defined errors (p. 112)
Checking objects before referencing (p. 112)
More detailed error messages (p. 113)
Err, Erl, and Error (p. 113)
Scope (p. 114)
Logging activity (p. 114)
7.3 NotesLog (p. 115)
7.4 Setting up the NotesLog object (p. 117)
Logging to a Notes database (p. 117)
Logging to a text file (p. 118)
Logging via email (p. 118)
Actions (p. 119)
7.5 Errors (p. 119)
Logging script activity via the agent log (p. 120)
7.6 Chapter summary (p. 122)
7.7 Chapter review (p. 122)
8 Events (p. 123)
8.1 Chapter objectives (p. 124)
8.2 Initialize (p. 124)
8.3 Terminate (p. 124)
8.4 Forms/subforms (p. 125)
PostOpen (p. 125)
QueryOpen (p. 126)
QuerySave (p. 127)
QueryClose (p. 128)
PostRecalc (p. 128)
QueryModeChange (p. 128)
PostModeChange (p. 129)
WebQueryOpen (p. 129)
WebQuerySave (p. 130)
8.5 Fields (p. 130)
Entering (p. 130)
Exiting (p. 130)
8.6 Database (located in the database script) (p. 131)
PostOpen (p. 131)
QueryDocumentDelete (p. 131)
PostDocumentDelete (p. 132)
QueryDocumentUndelete (p. 132)
QueryClose (p. 132)
8.7 Action/button/hotspot (p. 132)
ObjectExecute (p. 132)
Click (p. 132)
8.8 Views/folders (p. 133)
QueryOpen (p. 133)
PostOpen (p. 133)
QueryOpenDocument (p. 133)
QueryRecalc (p. 133)
QueryAddToFolder (p. 133)
QueryPaste (p. 134)
PostPaste (p. 134)
QueryClose (p. 134)
8.9 Agents (p. 134)
8.10 Creating your own events (p. 134)
The flow of events (p. 136)
8.11 Chapter summary (p. 140)
8.12 Chapter review (p. 140)
9 Working with the ACL (p. 141)
9.1 Chapter objectives (p. 142)
9.2 Seven levels of access in the ACL. (p. 142)
Manager (p. 142)
Designer (p. 142)
Editor (p. 142)
Author (p. 143)
Reader (p. 143)
Depositor (p. 143)
No Access (p. 143)
9.3 NotesACL class (p. 146)
9.4 NotesACLEntry Class (p. 147)
9.5 Roles (p. 150)
9.6 UniformAccess (p. 153)
9.7 Chapter summary (p. 153)
9.8 Chapter review (p. 154)
10 NotesItem (p. 155)
10.1 Chapter objectives (p. 156)
10.2 NotesItem class (p. 156)
Creating items (p. 156)
Removing an item (p. 157)
Copying an item (p. 158)
Checking for a value (p. 160)
10.3 NotesItem object and its values (p. 161)
GetFirstItem (p. 161)
GetItemValue (p. 161)
Checking Values (p. 162)
Other properties (p. 162)
NotesRichTextItem (p. 163)
Accessing (p. 164)
10.4 Working with text (p. 166)
NotesRichTextStyle (p. 167)
10.5 Chapter summary (p. 171)
10.6 Chapter review (p. 171)
11 Embedded objects and OLE (p. 173)
11.1 Chapter objectives (p. 174)
11.2 Attachments (p. 174)
Creating an attachment (p. 174)
11.3 OLE (p. 179)
Linking (p. 180)
Embedding (p. 180)
OLE Automation (p. 180)
11.4 Creating embedded OLE objects (p. 181)
Creating an object (p. 182)
FYI (p. 184)
11.5 Creating a linked object (p. 184)
Editing an object (p. 184)
11.6 Deleting objects (p. 185)
11.7 Chapter summary (p. 186)
11.8 Chapter review (p. 187)
12 Office 97 (p. 189)
12.1 Chapter objectives (p. 190)
12.2 Object browser revisited (p. 190)
12.3 Microsoft Office (p. 190)
Microsoft Word (p. 191)
Microsoft Excel (p. 196)
Microsoft PowerPoint (p. 200)
Microsoft Outlook (p. 200)
12.4 Performance considerations (p. 203)
12.5 Accessing Lotus Notes from Visual Basic (p. 204)
12.6 Chapter summary (p. 205)
12.7 Chapter review (p. 205)
13 Searching (p. 207)
13.1 Chapter objectives (p. 208)
13.2 Full-text indexing (p. 208)
Results (p. 208)
Search string rules (p. 209)
Logical operators (p. 209)
Trimming a collection (p. 211)
13.3 Searching a view (p. 211)
FTSearch (p. 211)
GetAllDocumentsByKey (p. 212)
GetDocumentByKey (p. 213)
13.4 Searching a database (p. 213)
FTSearch/UnprocessedFTSearch (p. 213)
Search/UnprocessedSearch (p. 215)
Creating a full-text index (p. 216)
13.5 Chapter summary (p. 217)
13.6 Chapter review (p. 217)
14 Reports (p. 219)
14.1 Chapter objectives (p. 220)
14.2 Reports as documents (p. 220)
Email (p. 222)
Scheduled (p. 223)
Selective/custom reports (p. 223)
MessageBox (p. 224)
Form as a Front-End (p. 224)
Newsletter (p. 230)
14.3 Chapter summary (p. 233)
14.4 Chapter review (p. 233)
15 LotusScript data objects (p. 235)
15.1 Chapter objectives (p. 236)
15.2 Domino.Connect (p. 236)
LS:DO (p. 237)
ODBC (p. 237)
15.3 SQL (p. 238)
Select (p. 238)
From (p. 238)
Where (p. 238)
15.4 ODBCConnection (p. 239)
15.5 ODBCQuery (p. 241)
15.6 ODBCResultSet (p. 241)
15.7 Handling errors (p. 242)
On Error (p. 244)
15.8 Accessing data in a result set (p. 244)
15.9 Adding/deleting records (p. 246)
15.10 Domino.Connect (p. 248)
15.11 NotesSQL (p. 248)
15.12 Chapter summary (p. 249)
15.13 Chapter review (p. 249)
16 Working with date/time values (p. 251)
16.1 Chapter objectives (p. 252)
16.2 LotusScript (p. 252)
16.3 Extracting portions of time/date values (p. 253)
16.4 NotesDateTime class (p. 255)
16.5 Methods (p. 256)
Creating a NotesDateTime object (p. 259)
NotesDateRange class (p. 260)
Year 2000 issues (p. 261)
NotesInternational class (p. 264)
Properties (p. 264)
16.6 Chapter summary (p. 266)
16.7 Chapter review (p. 267)
17 Working outside the Domino/Notes environment (p. 269)
17.1 Chapter objectives (p. 270)
17.2 Shell (p. 270)
Declare (p. 272)
Windows 95/NT (p. 273)
ActivateApp (p. 274)
Evaluate (p. 275)
17.3 Chapter summary (p. 277)
17.4 Chapter review (p. 277)
18 LotusScript and the Web (p. 279)
18.1 Chapter objectives (p. 280)
18.2 Print (p. 280)
18.3 Browsers (p. 280)
18.4 Environment variables (p. 281)
DocumentContext (p. 282)
18.5 Query_String (p. 283)
Events (p. 286)
WebQueryOpen (p. 287)
WebQuerySave (p. 287)
Executing agents (p. 287)
Web Navigator database(s) (p. 287)
18.6 Chapter summary (p. 288)
18.7 Chapter review (p. 288)
19 Input validation, NotesAgent class, and script libraries (p. 291)
19.1 Chapter objectives (p. 292)
19.2 Validation (p. 292)
Input validation (p. 292)
QuerySave event (p. 292)
Field exit event (p. 293)
Unique values (p. 294)
ComputeWithForm (p. 295)
19.3 NotesAgent class (p. 296)
19.4 RunOnServer (p. 298)
19.5 Script libraries (p. 299)
Using script libraries (p. 300)
19.6 Chapter summary (p. 300)
19.7 Chapter review (p. 301)
20 Notes 5.0 (p. 303)
20.1 Chapter objectives (p. 304)
20.2 Integrated development environment (p. 305)
Performance (p. 306)
Forward references (p. 308)
Variable types (p. 309)
Threads (p. 309)
Classes (p. 309)
NotesOutline (p. 309)
NotesOutlineEntry (p. 311)
NotesOutline class methods (p. 312)
NotesOutlineEntry class properties (p. 313)
NotesUIWorkspace (p. 313)
User interaction (p. 314)
File open (p. 314)
PickLists (p. 314)
Prompt (p. 315)
Spelling checker (p. 316)
NotesDocumentCollection (p. 317)
Generating HTML (p. 318)
NotesReplication (p. 318)
Replicating a database (p. 320)
NotesRichTextTab (p. 321)
NotesRichTextParagraphStyle (p. 321)
NotesViewEntryCollection (p. 323)
NotesUIView (p. 324)
NotesUIDatabase (p. 325)
NotesAgent (p. 325)
NotesACL/NotesACLEntry (p. 326)
Events (p. 326)
View (p. 326)
Document (p. 327)
20.3 Other enhancements (p. 327)
20.4 Chapter summary (p. 327)
20.5 Chapter review (p. 328)
21 Working with NotesPump (p. 329)
21.1 Chapter objectives (p. 330)
21.2 NotesPump classes (p. 330)
NPActivity (p. 331)
Creating an NPActivity (p. 331)
Deleting an NPActivity object (p. 332)
NPConnect (p. 332)
Methods (p. 332)
Creating an NPConnect object (p. 333)
Deleting an NPConnect object (p. 333)
21.3 NPFieldList (p. 333)
Properties (p. 333)
Methods (p. 333)
Creating an NPFieldList object (p. 334)
Deleting an NPFieldList object (p. 334)
21.4 NPField (p. 336)
Methods (p. 336)
Creating an NPField object (p. 336)
Deleting an NPField object (p. 337)
21.5 Data types (p. 341)
21.6 Conclusion (p. 341)
appendix A Notes/Domino constants (p. 343)
appendix B Notes/Domino classes (p. 358)
appendix C LotusScript keywords (p. 474)
index (p. 481)

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Anthony Patton, a Notes programming veteran, is a Certified Lotus Principal Application Developer and a Certified Lotus System Administrator.

Practical LotusScript / Anthony Patton.

By: Patton, Anthony, 1969-.

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