Specifications

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Application Development
This section of the wiki provides a short descrption of some of the application development considerations
related to Lotus Domino and Notes V8.5. The following tropics are addressed:
• Domino Designer User Interface
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XPages
Programming Language Support and Information
Several additions have been made to Formula, LotusScript, and Java in Notes and Domino 8.5.
Formula Language
Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 adds or changes the following formulas
• @Version -- added new version numbers
LotusScript COM OLE
Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 adds the following LotusScript methods and operations
• NotesRichTextDocLink.RemoveLinkage -- new method
Removes the doclink link from the rich text item while keeping hotspot text and formatting.
• NotesDocument.GetRead method -- new method
Returns true if the current document has been read, otherwise false.
• NotesDocumentCollection.StampAllMulti -- new method
Replaces the values of specified items in all documents in a document collection.
• NotesView.ResortView method-- new method
Resorts a view.
• NotesViewEntry.GetRead method -- new method
Returns true if the current entry has been read, otherwise false.
• NotesViewEntryCollection.StampAllMulti -- new method
Replaces the values of specified items in all documents associated with the entries in a view
collection.
• NotesSession.ResetUserPassword – new method
Use an agent to change the password of a user ID stored in the ID vault and/or specify the number
of times a user ID can be downloaded from the vault after a password reset or ID recovery
Java and Corba
• Document.getRead method
Returns true if the current document has been read, otherwise false.
• DocumentCollection.clone
Returns a collection object which is a copy of the original collection.
• DocumentCollection.contains
Indicates whether or not a DocumentCollection contains all of the given Documents or all of the
Documents associated with the given ViewEntries.
• DocumentCollection.intersect
Removes from a document collection any documents not also contained in a second collection.