Database design information -- working with design documents
The object model of Domino is very concise. The definitions of forms, views and other design database elements like replication formulas are stored in documents like all other information. These documents do not differ structurally from "normal" data documents. They simply contain a flag in the document's header, which identifies them as so-called "special documents" or design documents. With VA Smalltalk Domino Connection you can access these special documents with a simple protocol. The following section gives you an overview over design documents and their usage.
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The internal structure of a design document is complex. Some of the important design information is usually stored in an RTF field called $BODY. To understand what is in the $BODY field, you have to parse the RTF data stream. There is only limited support to do this within the Domino Connection, but if you want to fully exploit the information available in a design note, refer to the Domino API documentation.
There is a set of classes which model the properties of design documents. The design document classes are subclasses of AbtLnNote because all their basic properties can be derived from "regular" documents. In addition to the AbtLnNote protocol the design documents offer a number of specialized methods according to their function in a database
Last modified date: 01/29/2015