how openntf open source solutions can save you time, money and your hair

Detroit Notes Professionals

Learn How OpenNTF Open Source Solutions Can Save You Time, Money and Your Hair

Bruce ElgortOpenNTF Co-Founder

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Good morning...

and I am here to show

how OpenNTF

open source solutions

can save you

Yes that’s my head!

born in New York

July 1963

so that makes me

less than 44

greater than 21

and not

at least not yet

Co-Founder

enjoy the presentation

Agenda

What is OpenNTF?Why Use Open Source Software?OpenNTF Site OverviewQuick run thru of some OpenNTF Applications

OpenLog domBulletin DominoWiki !!Help!!

Starting Your Own Project

Agenda continued

Wrap-upQuestions and AnswersShirt giveaways

Some things you won’t learn about today...

What all the different open source licenses meanHow to make other people write code for youHow to stop paying for all your softwareHow to re-grow hair you've already lostHow to spot weld

OpenNTF mission

a framework

for the community

to develop open source

applications for

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino

which can be

freely distributed

OpenNTF Mission

“Our mission is to provide a framework for the community to develop open source applications for IBM Lotus Notes and

Domino which can be freely distributed.”

Partial List of OpenNTF Applications

• OpenNTF Mail• DominoWiki• BB Log Analyzer• domBulletin• Blogsphere• kSpam• Real Workflow• User Admin. Utility• EU Power Tools• !!Help!!• The Automated Admin• Active Site• DXLPeek• Surely Template

• Stubby• Trigger Happy• Domino Outline 2 Ajax

Transformer• iWatch• OpenLog• Quick Elementer• MailScan• MailAnalysis• Web or Notes Survey Reports• ACLHelp• LDD Monkey• Domgle and many more…

Other OpenNTF Resources

Code BinApplication CatalogWikiFAQOpenNTF BlogThe Taking Notes Podcast

A Bit of History…

Started in December 2001Nathan T. Freeman (NTF) made a post on Notes.net

floating the idea of an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino open source community

Notes.net (LDD) members responded and developers from around the world help put together a server and a simple web site.

NotesOSS.org was born…

OpenNTF History

Yes I said “NotesOSS.org” and not OpenNTF.We started out as NotesoSS.org and a few months

later changed our name to OpenNTF.org for various reasons

For the first 9 months the site remained pretty quiet“Build it and they shall come” - NOT!This gave us time to build the support infrastructureA few early endeavors

Lookout Express - Microsoft Outlook Express template for IBM Lotus Notes

Project Crimson – Remember Garnet?

OpenNTF History Continued…

OpenNTF needed a “killer application” to help put OpenNTF on the radar screens of the Notes/Domino community.

What is the one application that almost all Notes/Domino developers used that could benefit from some enhancements and some new features….

Notes Mail, of course

OpenNTF Mail

Eleven Developers from around the world added a dozen new features to the Notes Mail Template two weeks after Notes 6.0 was launched.

Added Reply and Forward indicators Added a Follow-Up feature Added “Quick Stuff” Resend Memo action Show message headers Find Memo action Send/Receive action OpenNTF Preference Pane And many more…

OpenNTF Mail Was a Smash Hit!

The community loved itThe press loved itThousands of downloads in the first few weeks after

it’s releaseThis application put OpenNTF on the map and

continues to be one the sites most popular applications.

Do you use it?

Home Page and basic site content (domCMS)Project Management System (PMT)

Used by Project “Chefs” to manage their open source projects Code Releases Bug Tracking Feature Requests Project discussion RSS enabled

Main Bar (domBulletin) Discussion forums

RSS enabled

The OpenNTF Site

The OpenNTF Site continued…

Code Bin 1000+ Code snippets RSS enabled

Application Catalog Cumulative collection (Projects and other shareware, freeware and

open source apps)

Other Fun Stuff OpenNTF blog (Blogsphere)

RSS Enabled Taking Notes podcasts

RSS Enabled Available on iTunes

Some OpenNTF Factoids

Over 34,000 registered usersOver 10,000 downloads every monthOver 2,100 visitors each dayServer hosted by The PSC GroupWebsphere Portal hosted by Prominic

Some OpenNTF Factoids

2,482 5,047

16,188

24,702

34,000

2002 2003 20042005

Over 34,000 registered usersOver 10,000 downloads every monthOver 2,100 visitors each dayServer hosted by The PSC GroupWebsphere Portal hosted by Prominic

The OpenNTF Operations Crew

What is Open Source Software?

Open source software is software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes.

Free programs created through the collaborative efforts of programmers from around the world

Why Use Open Source Software?

Reduce the cost of software developmentReduce the cost of software maintenanceAll this is accomplished by distributing it among many

collaboratorsIf you don’t like something you can change it!So open source means free?

No – you still may require training and support but, the cost is still less than using proprietary software.

Flexible licensing OpenSource.org – http://www.OpenSource.org Many licenses to choose from – All with their own caveats

Why doesn’t everybody use open source?

Valid Concerns Support Accountability

Supporters Assert… Open source software is more reliable Problems can be found and fixed quicker

Let’s see how

OpenNTF

can save you

Let’s start with one for the developers…

…there will be a compliance audit in 4 weeks

File | Database | New

OpenLog

What is OpenLog?

How many of you can say they know about all the errors occurring in your applications?

So what exactly is OpenLog… Common error and event logging framework One database to log all of your IBM Lotus Notes and Domino

application errors Works great for server agents as well as for Notes client UI

applications. Has been modified by Matt White to log JavaScript errors

and events

Setting up OpenLog

Download the database from the OpenNTF siteSign the databaseChange the ACL

Depositor – Write Public Documents

Point logDbname in the OpenLogFunctions script library to the location of your OpenLog database

Server Agents

User Forms

Server Agents

User Forms

Error Type

Add the Script Libraries to your app….

OpenLogFunctions (LotusScript library)OpenLogClass (the Java library)

Add the Script Libraries to your app….

OpenLogFunctions (LotusScript library)OpenLogClass (the Java library)

Remember to click yes

Modifying Your Code to Work with OpenLog

Add this line to the [Options] section of your code: Use "OpenLogFunctions“Now add the following line before the error block

resumes or terminates: Call LogError

Now wasn’t that easy?

Let’s error

A Simple Example

Looking at the Error Generated by the Button

Looking at the Error Generated by the ButtonEvent, Type, Time, Severity

User, Access, Version

Error details

Server, DB, Agent, Method

Error details

Server, DB, Agent, MethodNotification

Error details

Server, DB, Agent, MethodNotification

View/Form

Looking at the Error Generated by the Agent

Domino Server

Server

Database

Server

Database

Server

Database

Function

Server

Database

Function

Error Text

Server

Database

Function

Error Text

Event Type

Server

Database

Function

Error Text

Event Type

Severity

Notifications

Send To

Notifications

Send To

Subject

Notifications

Send To

Subject

Body Text Header

Notifications

Send To

Subject

Body Text Header

Event Details

Notifications

Send To

Subject

Body Text Header

Event Details

Doclink

Why be so negative…

OpenLog can do more…

Tell us more Bruce...

You can use another handy function called LogEvent to log anything you like!

No more writing to the log.nsf database!

LogEvent takes one parameter: msg - string

LogEventEx adds two more parameters: Severity - string doc – NotesDocument

Developers Have Integrated OpenLog Into Their Bug Tracking Systems

Job well done Julian

Let’s see how

OpenNTF

can save you

Your boss said she needs a discussion forum

…for a trade show next month

domBulletin

What is domBulletin?

State of the art discussion forumSimilar to phpBBNotes client and browserHighly configurableCurrently at Version 1.2

Did You Know…

domBulletin has been used by the Lotusphere On-Line system for the last three years?

Used by many Lotus Business Partners as their product support forum

Used to host the OpenNTF Main Bar discussion forum

Notes client

Web browser

Getting started with domBulletin

Download the template from the OpenNTF siteSign itConfigure

ACL Roles Database setup

Read the Help > Using This Database

domBulletin Configuration

Forum categoriesSkinsAuthentication / SecurityMailUser ProfilesIBM Lotus Sametime integrationAdvanced Options

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