MWLUG 2011: The Never Ending Integration Story

The Never Ending Integration Story: How to

Integrate Your Lotus Notes, Domino, and

LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office,

.NET, and Lotus Symphony

© 2011 PSC Group, LLC

John Head, PSC Group, LLC

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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F O U N D E D I N 1 9 9 0

PSC

Ecosystem

Our

Clients

Our

Solutions

Our

People

Clients

Prospects Delivery

People

Direction

• Integration

•Workflow

•Rules Engines

•Collaboration

•SOA

•Portals/Websites

•Mobile Enablement

•Custom Applications

•Dashboards

•Process Improvement

•Agile/Sustainable Architectures

Our Partners

The Never Ending Story

• Building on top of past 10 years of presentations on this topic

– More Content

– Every demo updated

– Brand New Demos

– Take Advantage of the modern software versions

• Notes 8.5.2 and 8.5.3

• 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 8.5.2 Contacts Template

Version on server for web and web services demos

Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010

Poll Results: WorldWide 2011

Let's Review how we got to 2011

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!!!!

Integration History

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

• “Getting Started” with Integration

• Advanced Integration

– From the Notes Client

– From other applications

– 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)

● C#

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

• “Getting Started” with Integration

• Advanced Integration

– From the Notes Client

– From other applications

– 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

Agenda

• Introductions

• “Getting Started” with Integration

• Advanced Integration

– From the Notes Client

– From other applications

– From the Web

• Looking Forward

• Q & A

Advanced Integration from other applications

• Insert Image

• Insert Slide

• Notes Explorer

• Document Automation vs. Generation

– OOXML

– ODF

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

• Using a custom VSTO

solution, add an Insert

Image Ribbon, menu

item, and sidebar that

allows for easy image

insertion from a Notes

repository.

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

1) Office 2007 OOXML

2) ECMA-376

3) ISO/IEC 29500:2008

4) Office 2010 OOXML

• Allows XML exploration of files for

– Word

– Excel

– PowerPoint

– Allows for document manipulation

• ZIP container of text, images, etc.

• Open XML SDK 1.0

– Allows for handling container

• Open XML SDK 2.0

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/simpl

e/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

• “Getting Started” with Integration

• Advanced Integration

– From the Notes Client

– From other applications

– From the Web

• Looking Forward

• Q & A

Advanced Integration from the web

• Integration with Microsoft Web Technologies

– Integration with IBM Lotus XPages

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

• “Getting Started” with Integration

• Advanced Integration

– From the Notes Client

– From other applications

– 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 365

• 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 Market 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 Sept 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

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