JMP208 The Never Ending Integration Story: How to Integrate Your Lotus Notes, Domino, and LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office, .NET, and Lotus Symphony

The Never Ending Integration Story: How to Integrate Your Lotus Notes, Domino, and LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office, .NET, and Lotus Symphony John Head, PSC Group, LLC Alex Kassabov, PSC Group, LLC

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Agenda
Introductions
“ Getting Started” with Integration
Advanced Integration
From the Notes Client
From other applications
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

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Who are we?
Alex Kassabov
Vice President of Collaboration at PSC Group, LLC
Involved in Lotus technology since 1995
Notes R3 – got dragged there kicking and screaming
Speaker
Lotusphere sessions on Desktop Integration
Collaboration Summit
GRAINTE Chicago Lotus User Group
Akassabov.wordpress.com twitter/akassabov

PSC Group, LLC
HHost of the following blogs:
Ed Brill’s (www.edbrill.com)‏
Lotus Design Blog(Mary Beth Raven) (www.notesdesign.com)
LotusStaffNotes (Brent Peters) (www.lotusstaffnotes.com)
Lotus Connections Team
(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)
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The Never Ending Story
Built on top of last years complete session rewrite
More Content
Every demo updated
Brand New Demos
Take Advantage of the modern software versions
Notes 8.5.2
Office 2010
Symphony 1.3 & 3.0
.NET 4.0
Visual Studio 2010
Much of the basics of integration have had to be left out …
But you can access our presentations from previous years …

The Demo Databases Presentation example database
Contains all of the “Getting Started” Demos
Works in your Notes Client
Configurable for your environment
New UI for Rich Client, works in Standard client as well
OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience
Customized Notes 8.5.1 Contacts Template
Version on server for web and web services demos

Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010

Poll Results: WorldWide 2010

Let's Review how we got to 2011

Integration History
1994
DDE with Ami Pro
1996
Notes R4
OLE
LotusScript
VBA
1997
SmartSuite with LotusScript (Word Pro)
1998
Notes R5 with COM support
2001
Notes Domino 6
2004
Notes Domino 6.5 with LS2J and DXL
2005
Notes Domino 7 with Web services
2007
2007 Office System
Lotus Notes/Domino 8
Lotus Symphony
2008
Visual Studio 2008
Notes/Domino 8.5
2009
Notes 8.5.1
Domino Designer in Eclipse
2010
Office 2010
Symphony 3.0
Otherwise known – How to Make John Feel Really Old!!!!

The Good News
We have entered the “Industrial Revolution” period of the Integration Era
In the “Medieval Times”
DDE with Ami Pro
NotesSQL was used to get even the most basic of data
OLE embedding
Notes F/X

The Good News (continued)
The Renaissance brought us new tools
OLE automation
COM automation
And much more
The Revolution brings us major changes
A true competitor to Office in Lotus Symphony
Visual Studio.NET 2010 and VSTO 4.0
Code begins to move from inside a document to complete applications

Agenda
Introductions
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

“ Getting Started” Demos
Each demo is the equivalent of a “Hello World” sample
They are self contained and as little code as possible
No error trapping, etc
This will get you started with Integration

Getting Started -
Word
Excel
PPT
Project
Visio
VBA
Symphony Documents (UNO)
Symphony Spreadsheets (UNO)
Symphony Presentations (UNO)
Symphony Documents (LS API)
Symphony Spreadsheets (LS API)
Symphony Presentations (LS API)
VB.NET
C#

Getting Started – Microsoft Word
“ Getting Started” demo #1
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft Word

Getting Started – Microsoft Excel
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft Excel

Getting Started – Microsoft PowerPoint
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft PowerPoint

Getting Started – Microsoft Project
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft Project

Getting Started – Microsoft OneNote
“Getting Started” demo #5
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft OneNote

Getting Started – Microsoft Visio
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft Visio

Getting Started – Microsoft Access
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Microsoft Access

Getting Started – Symphony Documents UNO
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Documents via UNO

Getting Started – Symphony Spreadsheets UNO
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets via UNO

Getting Started – Symphony Presentations UNO
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Presentations via UNO

Getting Started – Symphony Documents LotusScript
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Documents via the new LS API

Getting Started – Symphony Spreadsheets LotusScript
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets via the new LS API

Getting Started – Symphony Presentations LotusScript
Demonstrates how to use LotusScript to have Notes automate Lotus Symphony Presentations via the new LS API

Getting Started – VBA
Demonstrates how to use Visual Basic for Applications (from within Microsoft Word) to access Lotus Notes

Getting Started – VB.NET
Demonstrates how to use Visual Basic .net (from within Visual Studio.net 2010) to access Lotus Notes

Getting Started – C#
Demonstrates how to use C# (from within Visual Studio.net 2010) to access Lotus Notes

Use the Microsoft Constants Database
Provides a listing of all Microsoft
Office variables and their converted constants
Extraction of constants by John Collidge
Database built by Tom Duff
Now an OpenNTF.org project
Supports Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=1F6C5C7B16317E218625726D004A31A9

Agenda
Introductions
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

Advanced integration from the Notes Client From your Contacts application:
Create Letter
Create Envelope
Mass Mail Merge
Export
Create Presentation
Labels
Templates
Custom Fields
This requires that you replace the design of your Contacts application with the OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience template

OpenNTF.org Contacts Experience
Free template on OpenNTF.org
Release 2.0
Works with 8.0 and above
Microsoft Office
Works with 8.5.1 and above
Lotus Symphony
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=OpenNTF.org%20Contacts%20Experience

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Letter – Microsoft Word
From your Contacts, create a new letter for the selected contact in Microsoft Word.
Allow the user to select from custom templates

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Letter – Symphony Documents
From your Contacts, create a new letter for the selected contact in Lotus Symphony Documents.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Envelope– Microsoft Word
From your Contacts, create a new envelope for the selected contact in Microsoft Word.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Envelope – Symphony Documents
From your Contacts, create a new envelope for the selected contact in Lotus Symphony Documents.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Mass Mail Merge– Microsoft Word
From your Contacts, create a mass mail merge for the selected contacts in Microsoft Word.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Mass Mail Merge – Symphony Documents
From your Contacts, create a mass mail merge for the selected contacts in Lotus Symphony Documents.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Labels – Microsoft Word
From your Contacts, create a labels for the selected contacts in Microsoft Word.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Labels – Symphony Documents
From your Contacts, create a labels for the selected contacts in Lotus Symphony Documents.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Export – Microsoft Excel
From your Contacts, export selected fields for the selected contacts in Microsoft Excel.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Export – Symphony Spreadsheets
From your Contacts, export selected fields for the selected contacts in Microsoft Excel.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Presentation – Microsoft PowerPoint
From your Contacts, create a presentation for the selected contact in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Advanced integration from the Notes Client Create Presentation – Symphony Presentations
From your Contacts, create a presentation for the selected contact in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Agenda
Introductions
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

Advanced Integration from other applications
Mail Merge
Easy Spreadsheets using Notes Data
Insert Image
Insert Slide
Notes Explorer
Document Automation vs. Generation
OOXML
ODF

Advanced Integration from other Applications Mail Merge
Perform a mail merge from within Microsoft Word
Access Contacts directly from the Mail Merge Data Panel

Advanced Integration from other Applications Easy Spreadsheets using Notes Data
Create spreadsheets that import Contact data
Auto Refresh
Generate Charts
Get data via a XML Agent

Advanced Integration from other Applications Automate Data
Build a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel that pulls data from a web service in the Contacts application

Advanced Integration from other Applications Default VSTO Project
Use a default VSTO project to begin integrating Microsoft Office applications with Lotus Notes data via the sidebar, Fluent UX, and templates

Advanced Integration from other Applications Insert Image – Microsoft Word
Using a custom VSTO solution, add an Insert Image Ribbon, menu item, and sidebar that allows for easy image insertion from a Notes repository.

Advanced Integration from other Applications Insert Image – Symphony Documents
Using a custom Symphony Plug-in, add an Insert Image menu item and sidebar that allows for easy image insertion from a Notes repository.

Advanced Integration from other Applications Insert Slide – Microsoft PowerPoint

Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer
A C# and .NET solution that extends Microsoft Explorer to allow navigation of Domino applications from within Explorer. Notes Explorer is the combination of the Lotus Connectors and DNFS (Domino Network Files Services) from the Notes 5.x time frame.

Advanced Integration from other Applications Notes Explorer

Automation vs. Generation
Document Generation is starting to become a viable option
Using the standard formats of OOXML, ODF, and PDF
Instead of requiring the application to be present, this is done with no interaction of any application
Tools
C# and the OOXML Toolkit for Office
Java and the Simple Java API for ODF for Symphony
Numerous PDF APIs and Toolkits for both .NET and Java
Can generate server side in a fraction of the time

OOXML
Default format of Office 2007 and Office 2010
Ok, ok … there are three versions
Office 2007 OOXML
ECMA-376
ISO/IEC 29500:2008
Office 2010 OOXML
Allows XML exploration of files for
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
ZIP container of text, images, etc.
Open XML SDK 1.0
Allows for handling container
Open XML SDK 2.0
Allows for document manipulation

ODF
Open Document Format
Used by OpenOffice.org and Lotus Symphony
Open Document 1.0
ISO/IEC 26300:200
Open Document 1.1
Open Document 1.2
We are using the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM
http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simple/pages/Home

Document Generation Demo
A custom developed C# application that uses the Open XML SDK 2.0 and the Simple Java API for ODF created by IBM. We are also using an opensource PDF toolkit.

Agenda
Introductions
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

Advanced Integration from the web
Integration with Microsoft Web Technologys
ASP.NET
Integration with IBM Lotus XPages

Advanced Integration from the Web Accessing Contacts data in ASP.NET via COM
Using the Contacts application as our data source, display data in an ASP.NET page using COM

Advanced Integration from the Web – IBM Lotus XPages
A demo of an IBM Lotus XPages application using the IBM ODF Toolkit to generate documents

Agenda
Introductions
From the Web
Looking Forward
Q & A

2011 and Beyond
We finally have great tools
VS.NET 2010 and DDE
Great Changes Coming
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 multiple options
Office, Symphony, OpenOffice.org, Google Docs, iWork, etc.
Competition will be good for us … if we can deal with all the changes

PSC's Effort to Shape the Integration Marketing in 2011
Our goal in 2011 is
Provide 24/7 education about the integration market
Education and extend in the Automation space
Bring new developers to the Document Generation Space
Continue a leader in ODF and OOXML usage in the Lotus community
To achieve these goals … We introduce integrationdestination.com
Launching mid Feb 2011
We will start with recording videos with every automation demo we have done … ever (52)
Every version of Office still supported
All of the extra stuff
Far more to come!

Resources
LDD Discussions (Notes.Net) http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus
OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org
OpenOffice Developers Guide http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html
Programming OpenOffice with Visual Basic http://www.kalitech.fr/clients/doc/VB_APIOOo_en.html
Microsoft Office developer’s Web site
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx
Microsoft Developer Network
http://msdn.microsoft.com

Resources (cont.)
Microsoft Office blog listing
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905342.aspx
OpenNTF.org — the open source Web site for Notes
www.openntf.org
Integra4Notes Web site
www.integra4notes.com
Slides and content available from http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.psclistens.com

Lotus Greenhouse (greenhouse.lotus.com) is a live community website where you can use Lotus Collaboration Products for free! The Lotus Community Podcasts 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 Bleedyellow.com provides community implementations of Lotus Connections and Sametime IBM’s Official portal for developers including a dedicated section for Lotus (www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus) LotusUserGroup.org is the on-line home of the IBM Lotus community for regional and virtual user groups

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