Nothing lasts forever, including Notes client applications. In this session we look at a range of best practices that modernize our Notes applications as well as prepare them for might come next. Whether it’s the next version of Notes, XPages, or something else, it is important to ensure our applications are better placed to be added to an application store than become a museum exhibit.

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Future-proofing
Notes client applications

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Nothing lasts forever

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Make hay while the sun shines

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Before they end up here!!

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Databases

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Catalog

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Retirement

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Hidden design

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Assign a template

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Users Power Users (Admins) Expand
Segment Users

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Gestures

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Actions EventsHotspotsButtons
What are gestures?

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Client server
@Formula
LotusScript
JavaScript
SSJS
Java
LotusScript
(Agents)

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Back end versus front end

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Move the code

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Agents

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Views

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Outlines made us lazy

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Organize views

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Hidden views
Division Lookup
(Division Lookup)

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Web views
$Flags +“n”

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Eliminate unwanted views
Copy Of By Category
Another Copy Of By Category
By Category 12091989
Backup copy of By Category
By Category (Old)

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Eliminate unused views
log.nsg (Database Usage)
$Collection

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Document views
$Comment

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Eliminate conflicts
@IsUnavailable ($Conflict)

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Minimize response documents

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Forms

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Mobile First

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Clearly define labels

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Group fields carefully

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Tables
Heading
Label 1 Field 1
Label 2 Field 2
Label 3 Field 3

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Columns
Heading
Label 1 Field 1
Label 2 Field 2
Label 3 Field 3

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Adding Style Sheets

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Addresses
StreetAddress1 + “ “ + StreetAddress2
+ “ “ + City + “ “ + State + “ “ + Zipcode

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Rich Text

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OLE

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Rich Text Lite