IdeaJam(tm) : Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Domino Designer / : Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:03:10 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Tags: designer
Idea:

One of the downsides to developing Notes client applications is that as a developer I am usually tied to using the same version of Notes/Designer that is deployed across the company. This means I am unable to take advantage of many of the new features in Domino Designer until my company upgrades to a newwer version of Notes. Even though some of the new features in designer are not specific to a pareticular version of Notes. This is not the case for Web development.

My suggestion would be to have the deigner client capable of recognising the capabilities of each version of the Notes client so that it is possible to develop a Notes application for a specific version of Notes. The same would hold true for Web client development in which HTML, JavaScript could be validated for a specific browser etc.

Example:. It would be great if I could use the new Eclipse LotuScript browser when it becomes available before my company upgrades to that release of Notes.

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:47:11 +0000

Author: Scott Cochrane
Comment: Sound idea

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:36:29 +0000

Author: Harkpabst Meliantrop
Comment: To me, the title doesn't seem to reflect the content of the idea too well. But I like the idea of designing against a specific target platform.

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:33:30 +0000

Author: Karl-Henry Martinsson
Comment: A little bit like this idea, perhaps: { Link }

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:38:06 +0000

Author: Denny Russell
Comment: I would love to see them separated (and the Admin client too.) I hate the fact that if one is busy, I have to wait to get into the other one.

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:28:05 +0000

Author: Ben Poole
Comment: I like this (although as Harkpabst mentions, I was expecting a different idea!) I would envisage this as being similar to the 'compiler compliance' settings you have in Eclipse on a per-project basis -- e.g. "this app is 6.5x-compliant"... "this app is 8.0.2-compliant"... and so on.

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:14:33 +0000

Author: Christopher Baier
Comment: Several ideas in this one. I like the version-compliant-debugger/compiler idea.
I also like the idea of separating Designer/Notes processing thread--when one is busy, so is the other one.

re: Separate Design Client From Notes Client

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:23:55 +0000

Author: Rob Goudvis
Comment: Yes for @6