Reuse Notes design elements easily and efficiently
by Lee Powell


from THE VIEW, March/April 2006, Volume 12, Issue 2


By taking the best parts of your company’s Notes/Domino application designs and storing them in a Notes database for easy reuse, you can significantly reduce development time and costs, simplify production rollouts, enable code improvements over time, and keep up with corporate design standards. This article shows how to use Notes Design Elements Library, a free database available for download from THE VIEW Web site, to store and share ready-to-use design elements. It also provides some tips and tricks for using three under-utilized but versatile DXL classes to manipulate design elements.



Would you like to see the full version of this article?

If you are an electronic license holder to THE VIEW, please log in to view this article.

If you would like information about becoming an electronic license holder — and having 24/7 unrestricted access to all articles and content in THE VIEW Online Knowledgebase — click here to see the available subscription options.

Or call 1-781-751-8813 to speak directly with a subscription and licensing specialist about customized access for you and your team.



Free downloads:
Two versions of the Notes Design Elements Library (NDEL) are available for download: The prototype (nde.nsf) is the earlier version of the tool. All the screen shots and code provided in the article are from this database. The production-ready version (ndel.nsf) is stable, robust, and includes full online help.


ndel.nsf