Project Abbr - TinyURL-like solution for Lotus Notes Domino!

11/12/2009 11:41 AM by Chris Toohey

... I had a customer putting TinyURL-generated URLs that pointed to their internal intranet into their SAP system. This was less than acceptable to say the least, and spawned Abbr - a TinyURL-like Application for Lotus Notes Domino.

The idea is simple: each entry in Abbr contains a combination of Keys and URLs. Link to /Keyword and Abbr redirects you to your intended URL!

Using a combination of Website Substitution Rules and Best Practices Domino Web Application Development, Abbr allows you to maintain simple permalinks throughout and beyond your organization.

Published as an Open Source Application to OpenNTF.org, Abbr allows you to create easy to remember links to would-be complicated URLs, as well as creating permalink URLs to pages and resources that change!

So, instead of:

http://www- 01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/dominodesigner/

You can use this:

http://abbr.dominoguru.com/DDE

Simple right?

That's the idea behind the application - keep things simple. From User Interface to User Experience to the actual design of the application, it's - wait for it - simple!

Even the aforementioned Website Substitution Rules are simple:

Interested? Check out the Project Abbr home page on OpenNTF.org for details and your very own copy!