Chris Toohey | Domino Guru

Here's a 52 second Jing videocast showing how you can add a Lotus Notes Form as a Sidebar Widget. Once you check that out... you may be interested in what went into the design of said Form Design Element.

I'll use SOTU v0.2 as my example here, so if you haven't already, go download it so you can play along at home...

So first, I created a pretty simple Form Design Element named "sidebar_remotecommand":

Pretty simple stuff. SaveOptions prevents the Form from being saved back to the database, and my Process button looks like this:

Sub Click(Source As Button)
	
	Dim s As New NotesSession
	Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace
	Dim db As NotesDatabase
	Dim doc As NotesDocument
	Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument
	Dim vw As NotesView
	Dim scol As NotesDocumentCollection
	Dim sdoc As NotesDocument
	
	Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
	Set uidoc = w.CurrentDocument
	Set doc = uidoc.Document
	Set vw = db.GetView("servers")
	
	Forall server In doc.GetItemValue("servername")
		
		Set scol = vw.GetAllDocumentsByKey(server, True)
		Set sdoc = scol.GetFirstDocument
		
		Call genResponse(sdoc, Cstr(server), doc.GetItemValue("command")(0))
		
	End Forall
	
	Call uidoc.FieldSetText("servername", "")
	Call uidoc.FieldSetText("command", "")
	Call uidoc.Refresh
	
End Sub

... yeah, that's about it. I blank out the fields and refresh the UI so that the "reports" from the processed remote console requests are displayed directly in the widget.

This is an EXTREMELY powerful combination of current subject expertise and this new entry-point into our applications - I'm now running around like a madman creating RAD widgets for all of our applications without the need to ramp-up on Java Sidebar Application development.

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