Case Study -- Building a Shopping Application with LotusScript
by Thomas Køcks


from THE VIEW, January/February 2003, Volume 9, Issue 1


WebShop is a powerful, all-Domino shopping-basket application that is attractive, easy-to-use, has great performance, and keeps pace with a fast-growing global business. Follow along as the developer shows how he built the application’s front end, which allows Web users to browse through pictures and descriptions of new products and to select or change items in personalized, virtual shopping baskets that they can save or turn into orders. Learn how to tailor site pages for each user and how to build the dynamic elements that track the cost, shipping volume, and weight of items in the shopping basket. You’ll also see how — without using any additional technologies, such as cookies or Java applets — you can enable Notes client users to customize products and country-specific prices. The design elements are extensible, so you can easily adapt them for many other B2B browsing, selection, and registration applications. The sample demo database is available for download from THE VIEW Web site.



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Free downloads:
This ZIP file includes a sample WebShop database, as well as another sample database that corresponds to the MovexConnect database in the article. Download both files to get a more complete experience of WebShop's functionality.

To those readers who want a smaller demo database, the author recommends using eViewWebShopdbLite.zip, which has no product-picture files.



eviewWebShopdb.zip