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Scenario 2: Insurance forms on Internet

In this scenario, an insurance company wants to put their insurance forms online. This includes an insurance application...

Scenario 1: Departmental timesheet system on intranet

In this scenario, a business or department of approximately 50 people wants to move their timesheet system onto their lo...

Using Print Service servlet to avoid large forms

I've been working with Lotus Forms a couple of years ago and one of the more recurrent problem that i've faced was the f...

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Avoiding Refreshes with WebForm Server 3.5.1

This article describes some scenarios where a refresh occurs in WebForm Server 3.5.1, and some steps to avoid refreshes but still provide the same functionality.

Posting a YouTube video to a Lotus product wiki

Sharyn Richard | July 15, 2010 11:26:55 AM | Tags:

This article outlines the process for uploading a video to YouTube and embedding that video in a wiki article. Follow these instructions to upload a video to YouTube. Go to Youtube.com and log in to your YouTube account using your account information. If you would like to upload your video to the ...

Help with video formats and players

Sharyn Richard | July 14, 2010 10:27:55 AM | Tags:

This article lists the video formats included in this wiki and the playersplugin required to view those formats.

Saving and Loading XML Instance Data Sample Form

Eric Dunn | June 29, 2010 6:45:12 PM | Tags:

A sample form showing how one can use just xforms:submissions to save form data to a local xml file, and be able to retrieve it at a later time. Viewer Only!

Multilingual Forms Applications

Ryan Nordman | June 11, 2010 7:10:51 PM | Tags:

This article includes a sample form with servlet and will discuss approaches and techniques to develop multilingual forms applications, through two approaches: creating a separate form document for each language, or creating a single form which dynamically changes its labels for each ...

Wiki help

Amanda J Bauman | June 10, 2010 4:47:48 PM | Tags:

Wiki Help describes basic tasks that you can accomplish in the wiki, such as creating and editing articles, basic editing tasks, subscribing to feeds, and providing feedback on the wiki. It also includes information on how to use the supported wiki markup for formatting. For a quick reference of ...

Installing the Lotus Forms Designer into the Eclipse Workbench

This document provided a procedure for installing the Lotus Forms Designer version 3.5.1 as a plugin into the Eclipse 3.4 IDE Workbench. This procedure can be helpful to developers that do not have a license to Rational tooling but still want an integrated IDE environment where they can develop ...

Leveraging IBM Lotus Forms with IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Portal to Enable Business Process Automation

This presentation demonstrates how to ease integration between the WebSphere Portal, BPM solutions, and Lotus Forms.

Table example: Prompt user before deleting row from table.

Michael Watkin | March 23, 2010 5:36:34 PM | Tags:

This article was created to provide a Viewer and Webform Server solution to preventing a row from being deleted until the user has been prompted with a yesno question and an answer given.

Link to External URL in Webform Dialog

Chris Dawes | March 22, 2010 5:43:40 PM | Tags:

In version 3.5.x of the Webform Server it is possible to display any URL with a Webform Dialog. With this feature it becomes possible to extend Webform Server in ways that were previously not possible. When used in conjunction with the Lotus Forms JavaScript API an application developer can ...