Session presented by John Head of PSC Group, LLC at IdoSphere

1. Super Feat s of Int egr at ion: XPages w/ Symphony,
Shar epoint & Of f ice
An IdoSphere webinar
Presented by: John Head, PSC Group, LLC
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2. Agenda
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Int r oduct ions
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“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
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Advanced Int egr at ion
• Fr om t he Not es Client
• Fr om ot her applicat ions
• Fr om t he Web
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Looking For war d
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Q&A

3. Lotus Symphony and You - How to stop giving Microsoft your money! – ILUG 2010
John Head
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www.johndavidhead.com
www.pscgroup.com

4. PSC Group, LLC
Host of the following blogs:
Facebook.com/PSCGroup  Ed Brill’s
(www.edbrill.com)
Twitter.com/PSCGroup  Lotus Design Blog(Mary Beth Raven)
(www.notesdesign.com)
Linkedin.com/company/psc-group-llc  LotusStaffNotes (Brent Peters)
(www.lotusstaffnotes.com)
Slideshare.com/PSCGroup
 Lotus Connections Team
Youtube.com/PSCGroup (synch.rono.us)
 Domino Server Team
(www.dominoblog.com)
 Lotus Mashups
(www.mix-and-mash.com)
 Chris Pepin – IBM CTO’s Office
(www.chrispepin.com)

5. The Never Ending Story
Built on t op of last year s com plet e session r ewr it e
• Mor e Cont ent
• Ever y dem o updat ed
• Br and New Dem os
• Take Advant age of t he m oder n sof t war e ver sions
• Not es 8.5.2
• Of f ice 2010
• Sym phony 1.3 & 3.0
• .NET 4.0
• Visual St udio 2010
Much of t he basics of int egr at ion have had t o be lef t out …
But you can access our pr esent at ions f r om pr evious year s …

6. The Demo Databases
Pr esent at ion exam ple dat abase
 Cont ains all of t he “Get t ing St ar t ed” Dem os
 Wor ks in your Not es Client
 Conf igur able f or your envir onm ent
 New UI f or Rich Client , wor ks in St andar d client as well
OpenNTF.or g Cont act s Exper ience
 Cust om ized Not es 8.5.1 Cont act s Tem plat e
 Ver sion on ser ver f or web and web ser vices dem os

7. Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010
Office 2000
Office 2003
Office 2007
Office 2010
OoO
Symphony
Mac Editors

8. Poll Results: WorldWide 2010
Office 2000
Office 2003
Office 2007
Office 2010
OoO
Symphony
Mac Editors

9. Let's Review how we got to 2011

10. 1994
DDE

11. 1996
OLE
LotusScript
VBA

12. 1997

13. 1998

14. 2001

15. 2004
LS2J
DXL

16. 2005
Web Services

17. 2007

18. 2008

19. 2009

20. 2010

21. Integration History
 1994  2005
 DDE wit h Ami Pr o  Not es Domino 7 wit h Web
ser vices
 1996
 Not es R4
 2007
 OLE  2007 Of f ice Syst em
 Lot usScr ipt  Lot us Not es/ Domino 8
 VBA  Lot us Sym phony
 1997  2008
 Sm ar t Suit e wit h Lot usScr ipt  Visual St udio 2008
(Wor d Pr o)
 Not es/ Dom ino 8.5
 1998
 Not es R5 wit h COM suppor t
 2009
 2001  Not es 8.5.1
 Not es Dom ino 6  Dom ino Designer in Eclipse
 2004  2010
 Not es Dom ino 6.5 wit h LS2J and  Of f ice 2010
DXL
 Sym phony 3.0
Otherwise known – How to Make John Feel Really Old!!!!

22. The Good News
 We have ent er ed t he
“Indust r ial Revolut ion”
per iod of t he
Int egr at ion Er a
 In t he “Medieval Tim es”
DDE wit h Am i Pr o
Not esSQL was used t o get
even t he m ost basic of
dat a
OLE em bedding
Not es F/ X

23. The Good News (continued)
 The Renaissance br ought us new t ools
OLE aut om at ion
COM aut om at ion
And m uch m or e
 The Revolut ion br ings us m aj or changes
A t r ue com pet it or t o Of f ice in Lot us Sym phony
Visual St udio.NET 2010 and VSTO 4.0
Code begins t o m ove fr om inside a docum ent t o com plet e
applicat ions

24. Agenda
Int r oduct ions
●
“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
Advanced Int egr at ion
• Fr om t he Not es Client
• Fr om ot her applicat ions
• Fr om t he Web
Looking For war d
Q&A

25. “Getting Started” Demos
Each dem o is t he equivalent of a “Hello Wor ld” sam ple
They ar e self cont ained and as lit t le code as possible
• No er r or t r apping, et c
This will get you st ar t ed wit h Int egr at ion

26. Getting Started -
Wor d Sym phony Docum ent s (UNO)
Excel Sym phony Spr eadsheet s (UNO)
PPT Sym phony Pr esent at ions (UNO)
Pr oj ect Sym phony Docum ent s (LS API)
Visio Sym phony Spr eadsheet s (LS API)
VBA Sym phony Pr esent at ions (LS API)

27. Agenda
Int r oduct ions
“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
●
Advanced Int egr at ion
▬
Fr om t he Not es Client
• Fr om ot her applicat ions
• Fr om t he Web
Looking For war d
Q&A

28. Advanced integration from the Notes Client
Fr om your Cont act s applicat ion:
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Cr eat e Let t er
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Cr eat e Envelope
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Mass Mail Mer ge
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Expor t
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Cr eat e Pr esent at ion
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Labels
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Tem plat es
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Cust om Fields
This r equir es t hat you r eplace t he design of your Cont act s applicat ion
wit h t he OpenNTF.or g Cont act s Exper ience t em plat e

29. OpenNTF.org Contacts
Experience
Fr ee t em plat e on OpenNTF.or g
Release 2.0
Wor ks wit h 8.0 and above
• Micr osof t Of f ice
Wor ks wit h 8.5.1 and above
• Lot us Sym phony
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?
action=openDocument&name=OpenNTF.org%20Contacts%20Experience

30. Agenda
Int r oduct ions
“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
●
Advanced Int egr at ion
• Fr om t he Not es Client
▬
Fr om ot her applicat ions
• Fr om t he Web
Looking For war d
Q&A

31. Advanced Integration from other applications
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Inser t Im age
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Inser t Slide
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Not es Explor er
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Docum ent Aut om at ion vs. Gener at ion
• OOXML
• ODF

32. Advanced Integration from other Applications
Notes Explorer
A C# and .NET solut ion t hat
ext ends Micr osof t Explor er t o
allow navigat ion of Dom ino
applicat ions f r om wit hin
Explor er . Not es Explor er is
t he com binat ion of t he Lot us
Connect or s and DNFS
(Dom ino Net wor k Files
Ser vices) f r om t he Not es 5.x
t im e f r am e.

33. Advanced Integration from other Applications
Notes Explorer
Using a cust om VSTO
solut ion, add an Inser t
Im age Ribbon, m enu
it em , and sidebar t hat
allows f or easy im age
inser t ion f r om a Not es
r eposit or y.

34. Automation vs. Generation
Docum ent Gener at ion is st ar t ing t o becom e a viable opt ion
• Using t he st andar d f or m at s of OOXML, ODF, and PDF
Inst ead of r equir ing t he applicat ion t o be pr esent , t his is
done wit h no int er act ion of any applicat ion
Tools
• C# and t he OOXML Toolkit f or Of f ice
• Java and t he Sim ple Java API f or ODF f or Sym phony
• Num er ous PDF APIs and Toolkit s f or bot h .NET and Java
Can gener at e ser ver side in a f r act ion of t he t im e

35. OOXML
Def ault f or m at of Of f ice 2007 and Of f ice 2010
• Ok, ok … t her e ar e t hr ee ver sions
1)Of f ice 2007 OOXML
2)ECMA-376
3)ISO/ IEC 29500:2008
4)Of f ice 2010 OOXML
● Allows XML explor at ion of f iles f or
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Wor d
● Excel
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Power Point
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ZIP cont ainer of t ext , im ages, et c.
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Open XML SDK 1.0
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Allows f or handling cont ainer
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Open XML SDK 2.0
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Allows f or docum ent m anipulat ion

36. ODF
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Open Docum ent For m at
●Used by OpenOf f ice.or g
and Lot us Sym phony
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Open Docum ent 1.0
• ISO/ IEC 26300:200
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Open Docum ent 1.1
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Open Docum ent 1.2
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We ar e using t he Sim ple
Java API f or ODF cr eat ed
by IBM
●ht t p:/ / odf t oolkit .or g/ pr oj e
ct s/ sim ple/ pages/ Hom e

37. Document Generation Demo
A cust om developed C#
applicat ion t hat uses t he
Open XML SDK 2.0 and t he
Sim ple Java API f or ODF
cr eat ed by IBM. We ar e also
using an opensour ce PDF
t oolkit .

38. Agenda
Int r oduct ions
“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
●
Advanced Int egr at ion
• Fr om t he Not es Client
• Fr om ot her applicat ions
▬
Fr om t he Web
Looking For war d
Q&A

39. Advanced Integration from the web
Int egr at ion wit h Micr osof t Web Technologys
• XPages and Shar ePoint
• XPages and ODF

40. Advanced Integration from the
Web – IBM Lotus XPages
A dem o of an IBM Lot us XPages applicat ion using t he IBM
ODF Toolkit t o gener at e docum ent s

41. Agenda
Int r oduct ions
“Get t ing St ar t ed” wit h Int egr at ion
Advanced Int egr at ion
• Fr om t he Not es Client
• Fr om ot her applicat ions
• Fr om t he Web
●
Looking For war d
Q&A

42. 2011 and Beyond
 We f inally have gr eat t ools
VS.NET 2010 and DDE
 Gr eat Changes Com ing
• Productivity Tools are moving to the web
▬
Google Docs
▬
Lotus Symphony On-line and LotusLive
▬
Microsoft Office On-line and Microsoft 360
• End User Device Shift
▬
How many of you have tablets today? Next year?
 We have m ult iple opt ions
Of f ice, Sym phony, OpenOf f ice.or g, Google Docs, iWor k, et c.
 Com pet it ion will be good f or us … if we can deal wit h all t he changes

43. PSC's Effort to Shape the Integration
Marketing in 2011
Our goal in 2011 is
• Pr ovide 24/ 7 educat ion about t he int egr at ion m ar ket
• Educat ion and ext end in t he Aut om at ion space
• Br ing new developer s t o t he Docum ent Gener at ion Space
• Cont inue a leader in ODF and OOXML usage in t he Lot us com m unit y
To achieve t hese goals …
We int r oduce int egr at iondest inat ion.com
Launching m id Feb 2011
We will st ar t wit h r ecor ding videos wit h ever y aut om at ion dem o
we have done … ever (52)
• Ever y ver sion of Of f ice st ill suppor t ed
• All of t he ext r a st uf f
Far m or e t o com e!

44. Resources
 LDD Discussions (Not es.Net )
ht t p:/ / www-130.ibm .com / developer wor ks/ lot us
 OpenOf f ice.or g
ht t p:/ / www.openof f ice.or g
 OpenOf f ice Developer s Guide
ht t p:/ / api.openof f ice.or g/ Developer sGuide/ Developer sGuide.ht m l
 Pr ogr amm ing OpenOf f ice wit h Visual Basic
ht t p:/ / www.kalit ech.f r / client s/ doc/ VB_APIOOo_en.ht ml
 Micr osof t Of f ice developer ’s Web sit e
 ht t p:/ / msdn2.micr osof t .com/ en-us/ of f ice/ def ault .aspx
 Micr osof t Developer Net wor k
 ht t p:/ / msdn.micr osof t .com

45. Resources (cont.)
 Micr osof t Of f ice blog list ing
ht t p:/ / m sdn2.m icr osof t .com / en-us/ of f ice/ aa905342.aspx
 OpenNTF.or g — t he open sour ce Web sit e f or Not es
www.opennt f .or g
 Int egr a4Not es Web sit e
www.int egr a4not es.com
 Slides and cont ent available f r om
ht t p:/ / www.j ohndavidhead.com ht t p:/ / www.psclist ens.com

46. Planet Lotus (www.planetlotus.org) is an aggregation of Lotus related blogs and news
IdeaJam (www.ideajam.net) is a place where people can post and share their ideas, and
gauge the marketability, popularity and viability with input from others
OpenNTF (www.openntf.org) is a site devoted to getting groups of individuals all over the
world to collaborate on Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open source
IBM’s Official portal for developers including a dedicated section for Lotus
(www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus)
Bleedyellow.com provides community implementations of Lotus
Connections and Sametime
Lotus Greenhouse (greenhouse.lotus.com) is a live community website
where you can use Lotus Collaboration Products for free!
LotusUserGroup.org is the on-line home of the IBM Lotus community
for regional and virtual user groups
The Lotus Community Podcasts