1. The Never Ending Integration Story: How to
Integrate Your Lotus Notes, Domino, and
LotusLive applications with Microsoft Office,
.NET, and Lotus Symphony
John Head, PSC Group, LLC
© 2011 PSC Group, LLC

2. 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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4. F O U N D E D I N 1 9 9 0

5. Our Our
People Clients
Our
Solutions
PSC
Ecosystem

6. People
Clients
Direction
Prospects Delivery

7. • Integration • Mobile Enablement
• Workflow • Custom Applications
• Rules Engines • Dashboards
• Collaboration • Process Improvement
• SOA • Agile/Sustainable
• Portals/Websites Architectures
Our Partners

8. 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 …

9. 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

23. Poll Results: PSC Sessions in 2010

24. Poll Results: WorldWide 2011

25. Let's Review how we got to 2011

37. Integration History
 1994  2005
 DDE with Ami Pro  Notes Domino 7 with Web services
 1996  2007
 Notes R4  2007 Office System
 OLE  Lotus Notes/Domino 8
 LotusScript  Lotus Symphony
 VBA  2008
 1997  Visual Studio 2008
 SmartSuite with LotusScript (Word Pro)  Notes/Domino 8.5
 1998  2009
 Notes R5 with COM support
 Notes 8.5.1
 2001
 Domino Designer in Eclipse
 Notes Domino 6
 2010
 2004
 Office 2010
 Notes Domino 6.5 with LS2J and DXL
 Symphony 3.0
Otherwise known – How to Make John Feel Really Old!!!!

38. 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

39. 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

40. Agenda
• Introductions
• “Getting Started” with Integration
• Advanced Integration
– From the Notes Client
– From other applications
– From the Web
• Looking Forward
• Q&A

41. “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

42. Getting Started
• Word ● Symphony Documents (UNO)
• Excel ● Symphony Spreadsheets (UNO)
• PPT ● Symphony Presentations (UNO)
• Project ● Symphony Documents (LS API)
• Visio ● Symphony Spreadsheets (LS API)
• VBA ● Symphony Presentations (LS API)
● C#

43. 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&docume
ntId=1F6C5C7B16317E218625726D004A31A9

44. Agenda
• Introductions
• “Getting Started” with Integration
• Advanced Integration
– From the Notes Client
– From other applications
– From the Web
• Looking Forward
• Q&A

45. 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

46. 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=Open
NTF.org%20Contacts%20Experience

47. Agenda
• Introductions
• “Getting Started” with Integration
• Advanced Integration
– From the Notes Client
– From other applications
– From the Web
• Looking Forward
• Q&A

48. Advanced Integration from other applications
• Insert Image
• Insert Slide
• Notes Explorer
• Document Automation vs. Generation
– OOXML
– ODF

49. 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.

50. 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.

51. 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

52. OOXML
• Default format of Office 2007 and Office • ZIP container of text, images, etc.
2010 • Open XML SDK 1.0
– Ok, ok … there are three versions – Allows for handling container
1) Office 2007 OOXML
2) ECMA-376
• Open XML SDK 2.0
3) ISO/IEC 29500:2008
4) Office 2010 OOXML
• Allows XML exploration of files for
– Word
– Excel
– PowerPoint
– Allows for document manipulation

53. 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

54. 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.

55. Agenda
• Introductions
• “Getting Started” with Integration
• Advanced Integration
– From the Notes Client
– From other applications
– From the Web
• Looking Forward
• Q&A

56. Advanced Integration from the web
• Integration with Microsoft Web Technologies
– Integration with IBM Lotus XPages

57. Advanced Integration from the Web
IBM Lotus XPages
• A demo of an IBM Lotus XPages application using
the IBM ODF Toolkit to generate documents

58. Agenda
• Introductions
• “Getting Started” with Integration
• Advanced Integration
– From the Notes Client
– From other applications
– From the Web
• Looking Forward
• Q&A

59. 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

60. 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!

61. 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

62. 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
 Slides and content available from
http://www.johndavidhead.com http://www.psclistens.com