Beyond The Yellow Bubble

I am just putting the finishing touches on what I believe will the most useful tool to be provided as part of the .Domino Frramework yet.  The tool is called Inspector and the following provides a brief summary of what its capabilities will include in its initial release:-

1. View and change database properties

2. Select another database

3. Perform actions against the database (e.g. Open, Sign)

4. View data documents, profile documents, design documents, and deletion stubs
5. Build a document collection using any combination of search, FT search, view, or manual selection
6. Enter a Notes URL, NoteID, or Document UNID to select a specific document
7. Display the documents contained in the document collection.
8. Navigate through document collection
9. Perform actions against the document collection (e.g Setting field values, removing template inheritance)
10. Display details about any one document in collection
11. Display a list of items in the document
12. Perform actions against the document (e.g. Delete, Sign)
13. Display and edit information about any item in a document (type, value, flags)
14. For LotusScript Libraries show details of the classes, methods, & properties contained in the design document.

This functionality can invoked from ANY Notes database regardless of whether or not it implements the .Domino Framework.  This is done via a Toolbar "Magic Button" that passes information about the current database/document to the .Domino Framework database.

I see a LOT of potential for expanding the tool further to expose even more of the functionality built into the .Domino Framework.  E.g. Providing the ability to apply XSLT to transform data and design documents using styles sheets that reside in the .Domino Framework database.

The 0.5 Beta of the .Domino Framework onm OpenNTF is planned for later this week.