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I found myself working on a new database (opps I mean application!) tonight.  I want to create a database that will replace our paper forms for Expense reporting. This application will be for the Notes Client, but once I'm happy with it then I'll web-enable it right away. Following in the footsteps of Chris Blatnick and Nathan Freeman I actually want this database to look nice.

The first thing I want to talk about is required fields.  There a a ton of ways to require fields and the inform the user if they missed any.  Validation formulas, LotusScript, message boxes, and probably a bunch that I haven't thought of.  There are some wrong ways for sure like using validation formulas that fire on the form refresh and not on document save.  There's probably no true "right" way to do this, but in my case I want a "Pretty" way.  Oh I also want this to be EASY to code.

Let's talk about this...  
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Posted by David Leedy At 09:15:12 PM Location Lebanon, Pa | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Teamstudio has just released version 24 of it's tools.  I don't have the complete set of tools but I do have the big 4 - Analyzer, CIAO, Delta and Configurator.

In addition to being Notes 8 compatible there's a couple of really interesting features that I'm going to be playing with.

CIAO now has a new "Branch Manager".  I've been looking for something to do this for a long time.  I hate having a template checked out because you're working on big updates and now they want something small to go in pretty quick.  You don't want to promote the big changes but you need to get the minor one in.  You can't update the production database of course, so now you might have to spin off a new template.  We'll now CIAO is supposed to be able to handle this automatically and merge the changes between different "branches" off the main template.

Another interesting feature of CIAO is the ability to link it to a custom issue tracking database.  This might provide better documentation tracking.  And forcing check ins and outs to have an issue adds a good control that should keep the auditors.

I'll be talking more about this once I get a chance to play with it more.

Posted by David Leedy At 08:51:20 PM Location Lebanon, Pa | Permalink | Comments (0)

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There a webcast coming up talking about Domino on the iSeries from the folks at COMMON. They're going to discuss the lack of DB2 on the platform as well as some of the additional lotus products.
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Posted by David Leedy At 08:53:24 PM Location Lebanon, Pa | Permalink | Comments (0)

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This is my attempt at a blog.  I hope to talk about mostly development issues from a Notes/Domino purist.

What's a purist?  It's someone who only gets to use Notes and a little bit of Domino.  Sametime?  I've heard of it....  QUICKR? Something that Rob Novak does....  Connections?  Something to make when flying through Charlotte...

Anyway...  as you can tell I'm unfortunately not exposed to to much outside of Notes because my company has no need or no desire for other technologies...

Luckily for me, there's a lot to do that's inside Notes.

Posted by David Leedy At 02:42:50 PM Location Lebanon, Pa | Permalink | Comments (0)