The document provides an overview of integrating OpenOffice.org with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino. It discusses what OpenOffice.org is, how to access it programmatically from Notes using LotusScript and Java, and provides examples of using OpenOffice.org for tasks like mail merge, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. The presenters demonstrate how OpenOffice.org can be used for productivity and how its API relates to the IBM Lotus Notes productivity editors.

1. BP204 Integration of OpenOffice.org and IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Alan Bell John D. Head

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3. Agenda Who are we? What is OpenOffice.org EXAMPLE 1 thru 3 – The Hello World examples EXAMPLE 4 – Hello World using Java EXAMPLE 5 – Mail Merge EXAMPLE 6 – Fun with Spreadsheets EXAMPLE 7 – A Real World Notes Application EXAMPLE 8 – Impress with Impress Notes 8 Productivity Editors

4. Who are we? Alan Bell Dominux Consulting Penumbra Group The Open Learning Centre

5. About Dominux

6. Who are we? John D. Head Offering and Development Manager for frameworks at PSC Group, LLC Involved in Lotus technology since 1993 Speaker Over 22 sessions at Lotusphere since 1996 Speaker at Advisor conferences Author Advisor Magazine and other publications on Office and SmartSuite integration with Notes LotusUserGroup.org contributing Author and Forum moderator www.johndavidhead.com

7. PSC Group, LLC IBM Premium Business Partner for 15+ Years Microsoft Gold Partner Host of OpenNTF.org Winner of 2007 Lotus Award! Host of the following blogs: Ed Brill’s ( www.edbrill.com ) ‏ Alan Lepofsky’s Notes Tip’s ( www.alanlepofsky.net ) ‏ Alan Gartenberg - Sametime ( www.adamgartenberg.com ) ‏ Jeff Eisen – Hannover  ( www.jeffeisen.com ) ‏ Domino Server Team (www.dominoblog.com) ‏

8. A little poll ... Who is using … Office 97 and earlier Office 2000 Office XP Office 2003 OpenOffice / StarOffice Other

9. OpenOffice.org – The History Star Division Star Office written in the mid 80s Bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999 Sun Star Office released in August 1999 Source code released October 2000 OpenOffice.org 1.0 released May 2002 OpenOffice.org 2.0 released October 2005 OpenDocument format becomes international standard ISO/IEC 26300 November 2006 IBM Lotus Workplace Productivity Editors released 2005 Based on OpenOffice 1.1 Notes 8 to include IBM Productivity Editors

10. What is OpenOffice.org? From the website: free office suite - OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us. And the mission statement: To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.

11. What is OpenOffice.org? Getting past the marketing speak … … OpenOffice is an alternative to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint … which is FREE Provides the following applications Writer – Document Editor Impress – Presentation Program Math – Math Function Creator Draw – Vector Drawing Tool Calc - Spreadsheet Base - Database

12. Why should I care about OpenOffice.org? Only office suite that supports Open Document Format (ODF) 100% A free alternative to Microsoft Office Runs on 3 platforms Windows Mac Linux Saves to PDF Natively OpenOffice is the basis of the IBM Productivity Tools included with IBM Lotus Notes 8

13. OpenOffice.org - Licensing Licensing LGPL – the GNU Lesser General Public License “ Lesser” means that non-free code can use integration with OpenOffice.org (roughly speaking) ‏ Is it really Free? Yes Will it always be Free? Yes

14. OpenOffice.org != StarOffice StarOffice is Sun’s packaged version of OpenOffice Sun adds other software, services, and support For development purposes, you can write code that runs in both

15. Introduction to OpenOffice.org Development The OpenOffice Development effort is designed on an interface-based component model called UNO ( Universal Network Objects) ‏ UNO Definition: UNO offers interoperability between different programming languages, different object models, different machine architectures and different processes; either in a local network or even via the Internet. UNO components can be implemented in and accessed from any programming language for which a UNO language binding exists.

16. Say Hi to the ServiceManager The ServiceManager is kind of like the NotesSession class, it is a factory class that gets you to other places Set SM=CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") ‏ You can think of the ServiceManager as a back end class, and we want the front end, (like NotesUIWorkspace) ‏ Set Desktop=SM.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") ‏

17. What did that do?

18. Lets start an application So far we have an OpenOffice.Org window, but it doesn't yet know what application it will be, so we have to tell it. Dim args() ‏ Set WriterApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL ("private:factory/swriter","_blank",0,args) ‏ Args is a variant array, we don't want to pass any parameters, but it must be an array. The s in swriter stands for “Star” Now we have a word processor up and running

19. The picture so far . . .

20. Now for some text First we need to get a handle to the text part of the document Set WriterText=WriterApplication.getText() ‏ And we need a cursor position where we can insert some text Set Cursor=WriterText.createTextCursor() ‏ Finally we can make the traditional greeting Call WriterText.insertString(Cursor,"Hello World!",False) ‏

21. Hello World!

22. EXAMPLE 1 Writer “Hello World” - Lets see all the code together Sub Click(Source As Button) ‏ Set SM=CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") ‏ Set Desktop=SM.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") ‏ Dim args() ‏ Set WriterApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL_ ("private:factory/swriter","_blank",0,args) ‏ Set WriterText=WriterApplication.getText() ‏ Set Cursor=WriterText.createTextCursor() ‏ Call WriterText.insertString(Cursor,"Hello World!",False) ‏ End Sub

23. EXAMPLE 2 Hello Calc Sub Click(Source As Button) ‏ Set SM=CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") ‏ Set Desktop=SM.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") ‏ Dim args() Set CalcApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL_ ("private:factory/scalc","_blank",0,args) ‏ Set Worksheet=CalcApplication.Sheets.getByName("Sheet1") ‏ Set cell=Worksheet.getCellByPosition(3,6) ‏ Call cell.setString("Hello World!") ‏ End Sub We have set the string in a cell, but which cell is it?

24. D7!

25. Rows and columns are numbered from zero

26. Now for Impress Impress and Draw are almost the same application Pages contain shapes Shapes can contain Text Text is handled just like it is in Writer

27. EXAMPLE 3 Hello World from Impress Sub Click Set SM=CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") ‏ Set Desktop=SM.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") ‏ Dim args() Set ImpressApplication=Desktop.loadComponentFromURL_ ("private:factory/simpress","_blank",0,args) ‏ Set Presentation=ImpressApplication.getDrawPages() ‏ Set Slide=Presentation.getByIndex(0) ‏ Slide.layout=1 'this layout has a title and an outline Set title=Slide.getbyindex(0) 'the first shape is the title Set TitleText=title.getText() 'this bit is like talking to writer Set Cursor=TitleText.createTextCursor() ‏ Call TitleText.insertString(Cursor,"Hello World!",False) ‏ End Sub

29. The Help Files – how to read them Objects Interfaces – collections of properties In LotusScript you can use methods and properties from any interface In Java and C you have to specify which interface you want to use.

30. EXAMPLE 4 Lets see some Java The examples in the help files are typically in Java You have to specify the interface you want to use on an object

31. More to say then “Hello” So far, we have shown you the basics How to connect to OpenOffice.org from Notes LotusScript and Java examples Now, let's show you some real-world, useful demos

32. EXAMPLE 5 Mail Merge Same concepts as Word Mail Merge User selects data Generate data file Detach template Launch Writer Execute Mail Merge Produce End Document Two steps today

33. Spreadsheets with Calc How would you like your spreadsheet to work? Something like this? Dim ss as new spreadsheet ss.setcell(3,6,”Hello World!”) ‏ ss.underline(3,6) ‏ ss.rotate(3,6,45) ‏ print ss.findrow(3,”Hello World!”) ‏

34. EXAMPLE 6 Spreadsheets Demo Time

35. How it works Class Spreadsheet public cols list as Column ... End Class Class Column public rows list as Cell ... End Class Class Cell 'all the hard work happens here End Class Lists are cool Lists of lists are very cool

36. EXAMPLE 7 OpenOffice.org in a Real World Application Demo Time

37. EXAMPLE 8 Impresing with Impress Demo Time

38. The Notes 8 Productivity Editors How do they relate to OpenOffice.org? How similar is the API?

39. Wrap-Up Who are we? What is OpenOffice.org The Hello World examples Hello World using Java Mail Merge Fun with Spreadsheets A Real World Notes Application Impress with Impress Notes 8 Productivity Editors 8 Examples you can take home with you!

40. 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 Alan Bell's blog http://www.dominux.co.uk/dominuxblog.nsf John Head’s blog http://www.johndavidhead.com Slides and content available from http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.dominux.co.uk

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