Setting application launch properties

About this task

You can set database properties that control what a user sees when the database opens. For example, you might want all users to start from an application home page or a registration page. Or you might display a main navigator that leads users to different pieces of the application. You can specify one option for an application when it runs on a Notes® client and another option for the application when it runs on the Web.

Procedure

  1. When an application is open in Domino® Designer, launch Properties are accessed by doing the following:
  2. Expand the Applications Navigator
  3. Double-click on the Appllcation Properties design element. The Properties view is opened
  4. Click on the Launch tab at the end of the Properties view and set as needed.

Results

When the database opens on the Notes client, the following Launch options are available:

  • Restore as last viewed by user
  • Open "About Application" document
  • Open designated frameset
  • Open designated navigator
  • Open designated navigator in own window
  • Launch first attachment in "About Application"
  • Launch first doclink in "About Application"
  • Launch as composite application

You can also set the following:

  • Restore as last viewed by user
  • Show "About Application" document if modified
  • Show "About Application" document when launched for the first time
  • Preview: -The following options are available:
    • Bottom Right
    • Bottom
    • Right
Parent topic: Completing an application and managing design changes
Related tasks:
Displaying a navigator when users open a database
Launching a database into a frameset

Web Browser Launch

About this task

When the database opens on a Web browser, you can display:

  • Using the Notes launch option
  • The "About Database" document
  • A frameset you specify
  • A page you specify - in the Database Properties box, Designer gives you a list of the pages that are available to choose from.
  • A navigator in its own window
  • The first doclink in the "About Database" document
  • A doclink you specify
  • The first document in a view

To set application launch properties

Procedure

  1. Select or open the database and choose File - Properties or File - Application - Properties. Make sure that "Database" is chosen from the dropdown list at the beginning of the Properties box.

  2. Click the Launch tab.
  3. Choose what to display for a Notes client and for a Web client
  4. Optional: Choose whether to restore the database as the last user viewed it
  5. Optional: Choose whether to display the About This Database document when the database opens for the first time and/or when the About This Database document is modified.

If you choose to launch a doclink

Procedure

  1. Copy the doclink on to the clipboard.
  2. Open the Database Properties box.
  3. On the Launch tab, choose - On Web open launch designated doclink.
  4. Click Paste doclink.

If you choose to launch as a composite application

Procedure

  1. Open the Database Properties box.
  2. On the Launch tab, choose - Launch as Composite Application from the "When opened in the Notes client" dropdown list.
  3. Select the name of the application that you wish to launch from the Name dropdown list. The entries in the dropdown list are a list of the available composite application .XML files that have been imported into the database.
  4. Once a 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 of the application that you wish to disply when the composite application is launched.
  5. Close the Database Properties box when you have finished.

To launch a Page from the Notes client

Procedure

  1. On the Launch tab of the Database Properties box, choose On Database Open - Open designated Navigator.
  2. Select Type of Navigator: Page.
  3. Enter or select the name of the Page.

Displaying a document preview automatically

About this task

You can automatically display a preview pane that shows the contents of the highlighted document in a database view before the user opens the document. This gives users a sense of what is in a database without having to open and close each document. If you do not display the preview pane automatically, users choose View - Document Preview to access it.

Procedure

  1. Select or open the database you are designing and choose File - Application - Properties.

  2. Click the Launch tab.
  3. Click "Preview Pane Default." Note that this option is not available if you launch a frameset from the Notes client.
  4. Choose a location for the document preview pane to display.
  5. Check "Maximize document preview on database open" to display the preview pane automatically. Note that this option is not available when setting launch properties from the Notes client.