OPENNTF WEBINARS
December OpenNTF Webinar: The Volt MX LotusScript
Toolkit

AGENDA
• Paul Withers, HCL - Introduction to Volt MX LotusScript
Toolkit and HCL’s open source
• Jason Roy Gary, HCL - Introduction to Volt MX
LotusScript Toolkit and HCL’s open source
• Rocky Oliver, HCL - Building a demo app with Volt MX
LotusScript Toolkit
• Call to arms on Volt MX LotusScript Toolkit...and more!

ASKING QUESTIONS
• First Question – Will this be recorded?
• Yes, view on YouTube!!!
• https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenNTF
• Use the Questions Pane in GoToWebinar
• We will get to your questions at the end of
the webinar
• The speakers will respond to your questions
verbally
• (not in the Questions pane)
• Please keep all questions related to the
topics that our speakers are discussing!!!
• Unrelated Question => post at:
• http://openntf.slack.com/

THANKS TO THE OPENNTF SPONSORS
• HCL made a significant contribution to help our
organization
• Funds these webinars!
• Contests like Hackathons
• Running the organization
• Prominic donates all IT related services
• Cloud Hosting for OpenNTF
• Infrastructure management for HCL Domino and Atlassian
Servers
• System Administration for day-to-day operation

THIS IS OUR COMMUNITY
• Join us and get involved!
• We are all volunteers
• No effort is too small
• If your idea is bigger than you can do on your own, we
can connect you to a team to work on it
• Test or help or modify an existing project
• Write guides or documentation
• Add reviews on projects / stars on Snippets

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Volt MX LotusScript Toolkit
Paul Withers
Technical Architect
HCL Labs
Jason Gary
CTO
HCL Labs
Rocky Oliver
Senior Software Architect
HCL Labs

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Powers developer productivity, agility, and speed to
build apps that transform your business.
Industry-leading low-code platform for
delivering beautiful apps across multiple digital touch points
with one platform.

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From native mobile to
PWAs to wearables, build
once and deploy any app,
anywhere, on one cloud-
native platform.
Innovative Interactions.
Meaningful Engagement.
Integrations
Without Limits.
Build Once.
Deploy Everywhere.
Remove backend
complexity and unlock
existing data and business
processes to reduce time to
market by more than 60%.
Engage your users in new
ways with VR, AR and
voice chat. Add your choice
of virtual elements, AI and
NLP engines with ease.

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SaaS Apps
Databases Web Services Core Systems
IoT
Integrations Without
Limits.
Accelerate backend and third-party
integrations to build powerful apps faster.
• Visually map your app to backend APIs,
databases and legacy middleware
• Pre-built and custom connectors
• Orchestrate integrations across systems
Fortune 500 Oil and Gas Company
• 11 Apps with SAP integrations for field
and compliance inspection

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But Domino is more than just CRUD and schemas
Not all Domino field types
don’t neatly map beyond
Domino
Not every field should be
read/write to all users
Security restrictions return
incorrect HTTP codes
Treating Domino as CRUD
ignores millions of lines of
business logic

Volt MX Architecture

Existing Domino
Applications
• Forms and views – IN NSF
• Business logic (script libraries)
– IN NSF
• Workflow (agents) – IN NSF

Scenario 1:
Workflow in
HCL Notes
• Action triggered
• Workflow logic runs in
Domino script
• Updates field values
accordingly
• Saves to Domino

Scenario 2:
Volt MX App
• Action triggered
• Add integration service in Volt MX
Foundry
• Volt MX Foundry calls Domino
REST service
• Domino code parses request body
• Domino code updates and saves
document
Refactoring + many additional lines of
code

Scenario 2a:
Any REST
App
• Action triggered
• Application calls Domino REST
service
• Domino code parses request body
• Domino code updates and saves
document
Refactoring + many additional lines of
code

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• REST is typical HTTP
communication
• Beyond Domino,
Agents are the entry
point to LotusScript
• Agents are not
designed for REST
Domino Agents
are crucial

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But what if they
could be?
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Volt MX LotusScript Toolkit
• Develop in the open with the community
• Local replicas and Nomad mobile out-of-scope
• If local replicas are in use, assume lack of connectivity
• Generic payload
• New Classes for building / receiving Volt MX Foundry
calls (and Project Keep calls!)
• Extension of base classes for building REST service calls
• Wrappers for processing request body
• Wrappers for building headers
• Wrappers for converting required fields to JSON object
• Wrappers for generating response body
• Can we use fluent APIs to allow chaining?
• Wrapper for adding callback URL
• Server-based scheduled agent to process workflow
• Use OpenLog for error handling

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Volt MX LS Toolkit
Available today on HCL-TECH-SOFTWARE GitHub
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Show Me The Code

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Next Steps
• Slack channel in OpenNTF Slack 
• Build community
• Development
• Testing
• Samples
• Documentation
• Identify features and MVP
• Allocate roles
• Plan for 1.0 (March 2021)

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But Why Stop There?
• LotusScript Uber Library
• e.g. Bubble Sorts
• Developed by HCL and community
• Apache-Licensed
• Attribution is crucial
• Some functions may need to be
built from scratch

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NEXT WEBINAR
• TBD

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM OPENNTF!
• Happy Holidays to all and best wishes for 2021!

QUESTIONS?
Use the GoToWebinar Questions Pane
Please keep all questions related to the
topics that our speakers are discussing!!!
Unrelated Question => post at:
http://openntf.slack.com/