APPLICATION DESIGN

Creating a frameset
1. In the Applications Navigator, double-click Framesets.

2. In the Framesets section, click New Frameset. The Create New Frameset dialog box appears.


3. At the "Number of frames" drop-down box, select two, three, or four frames. You can make adjustments later.

4. Next to Arrangement, click one of the arrangements for the frames.

5. Click OK. The frameset with the chosen layout appears.

6. (Optional) Use the Frame action buttons, the Frame menu options, or keyboard keys to further refine your frameset. You can:

7. Open the Frameset Properties box. At the Basics tab: 8. Add content to each frame by using the Frame Properties box.

9. To move borders between frames, you can:

10. To preview the frameset: Using the View menu with framesets

When you are designing frames and framesets, the View menu contains the following commands:


Using framesets in composite applications (Composite Application InfoBox settings)

You can use framesets you have designed as design elements in composite applications. Do the following to use a frameset in a composite application:

1. Open IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) Designer and double-click a frameset from your composite application.

2. Select Frame - Frameset Properties. The Frameset Properties box appears. At the bottom of the box there is a Composite Application section.

3. Select the name of the application that you wish to use from the App Name dropdown list. The entries in the dropdown list specify the available composite application .XML files that have been imported into the database.

4. Once an App Name is selected in the App Name field, a list of the available pages in that composite application .XML becomes available in the dropdown list of the Page Name field. Select the page that you wish to use from the Page Name dropdown list.

5. Close the Frameset Properties box when you have finished.

Note These settings are for handling framesets used by composite applications in the Notes Standard client. Mail is an example of a composite application used in the Notes Standard client. "Proxy" framesets are specified so that you can open "classic" framesets in Notes Basic but composite applications also need a mechanism to specify framesets in the Notes Standard client which uses the Java user interface. For example, there are many links to the MailFS (Mail frameset) to open mail. Notes Basic needs to open the real MailFS. In Notes Standard, however, you want to specify the Mail composite application to obtain the correct interface.

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