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Table of Contents
1. Overview
2. Lotus Domino Designer
3. Teamstudio for Notes Developers
4. Teamstudio CIAO
5. Teamstudio Delta - Differential Analyzer
6. Command Center Interface - Cassetica
7. designPropEZ - Design Property Modification Tool
8. Flowbuilder - XML edition - Develop J2EE applications with Domino skills
9. Noteman from Martinscott
10. NotesMedic Pro - recover from Notes crashes
11. ScanEZ - Toolkit for Notes Databases
12. ZapNotes - from Lotus

 
1. Overview ^Top

Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004

Looking for Tools, Utilities and add-on Programs to help you with your Lotus Notes Development efforts. You've come to the right place.


2. Lotus Domino Designer ^Top

Comments: You most cetainly have this one, but this page won't be complete without a link to the official page of Lotus Domino Designer. Love it or hate it, Domino Designer is central to your life if you are a Lotus Notes programmer
Title: Lotus Domino Designer
URL: http://www.lotus.com/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/dominodesignerhome
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
Domino Designer is application development software that enables application developers and Web site designers to create secure, collaborative applications that can be accessed via Lotus Notes or Web browsers. Developers can easily create core business solutions based on forms, views, pages, framesets, integrated instant messaging, XML, Java, JavaScript, and much more.
3. Teamstudio for Notes Developers ^Top

Comments: Teamstudio provides some of the critical tools any organized development team requires.
Title: Lotus Notes Tool: Notes Version Control, Notes Design Analysis, lotus notes, Notes Code Reuse, debugging, lotus notes domino, Teamstudio, Notes Change Management, Notes Differential Analysis
URL: http://www.teamstudio.com/tsv3/teamstudio.nsf/pages/F2A1CCCD2CC8292785256EFB0059CCD0?opendocument&cc=us
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
Teamstudio for Notes is the award-winning suite of tools for Lotus Notes and Domino developers.

Winner of the 2003 e-Pro Magazine Apex Award for Development Tool, the suite consists of eight powerful tools that address common development challenges such as database analysis, version control, global search and replace, quality assurance, code reuse and integrity, and change management.

4. Teamstudio CIAO ^Top

Comments: Version control (Check-in/check-out) for Lotus Domino Development teams. Tightly integrated into Notes/Domino
Title: Teamstudio CIAO!
URL: http://www.teamstudio.com/tsv3/teamstudio.nsf/pages/9E69AAADBE2EFFA085256BF00061BC0B?opendocument&cc=us
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
  • Anxious that your database design changes might be lost?
  • Frustrated with the inability to track changes to design elements?
  • Annoyed with replication and save conflicts to your design modifications?
Teamstudio CIAO! is the first-ever software development tool to provide check-in, check-out and version control for Lotus Notes and Domino database designs. It allows application developers to track changes to design elements, and enables multiple developers to work on the same database design at the same time.


5. Teamstudio Delta - Differential Analyzer ^Top

Comments: Ever used WinDiff or similar utilities. Here is a powerful differential analyzer for Lotus Notes, Domino programmers
Title: Teamstudio Delta
URL: http://www.teamstudio.com/tsv3/teamstudio.nsf/pages/0E6EDDE83F62A3D285256BF000623B42?opendocument&cc=us
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
  • Frustrated trying to manually eye-ball the differences between two database designs or design elements?
  • Unsure why your production database has suddenly stopped working?
  • Feeling pressure to identify the difference between two replication conflicts?
Teamstudio Delta helps developers quickly find all the differences between two Notes database designs individual design elements.

In a split-screen display, Teamstudio Delta shows all design elements in two different databases, aligning matching elements, showing which are identical and which have differences. Or Teamstudio Delta can show only elements with differences.
6. Command Center Interface - Cassetica ^Top

Comments: Saves you time by automating routine tasks, and performing tasks on multiple databases without having to open each one.
Title: Command Center Interface 2.0
URL: http://www.cassetica.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=9
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004

The new and improved Command Center Interface 2.0 (CCI) provides you with the tools you need to get your Lotus Notes tasks done easily and quickly. CCI 2.0 eliminates the need to manually open individual databases to perform tasks or struggling to develop tools to help automate routine tasks.


CCI helps save Lotus Notes Administrators and Developers time and frustration by exposing virtually every single property or setting you can imagine!.  


7. designPropEZ - Design Property Modification Tool ^Top

Comments: Lets you view, search and edit all design element properties at once.
Title: Ytria is a Lotus Notes software tool resource site for developers and administrators
URL: http://www.ytria.com/WebSite.nsf/WebPageRequest/Solutions_designPropEZen?OpenDocument&Lang=en
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
Search, view, & edit all design element properties at once
designPropEZ lets you audit (example: check the inheritance status of all design elements) and replace the general properties of design elements. No more manual "property by property" editing. Download Now.
  • Search for specific design element properties in a database
  • View all design element properties in one display (table)
  • Change all properties at once (i.e. Prohibit Design, Inherit Design flags...)
  • Modify multiple databases via LotusScript

8. Flowbuilder - XML edition - Develop J2EE applications with Domino skills ^Top

Comments: This tool allows you to migrate your skills, applications to J2EE platform, all working from the Notes, Domino paradigm
Title: Trilog: Flowbuilder XML Edition
URL: http://www.triloggroup.com/flowbuilder/site/f2_0_Flow_XML.xsp
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
Introducing the first standards-based Rapid Application Development environment that brings the Domino development model and features to J2EE. FlowBuilder XML opens the door to J2EE for Domino developers and, at the same time, provides Java developers with an easy way to designed to build complex business process applications, once unique to Lotus Notes. J2EE development has never been easier. FlowBuilder XML features true WYSIWYG J2EE application and portlet design capabilities, sophisticated workflow engine and quick implementation of collaborative web applications. Take the path to productivity with the visual, versatile and intuitive FlowBuilder XML — built on innovative XSP component framework!
9. Noteman from Martinscott ^Top

Comments: Here is a swiss army knife that could save you a ton of time in routine development related work.
Title: MartinScott.com > Products > NoteMan
URL: http://martinscott.com/home.nsf/pageview/NoteMan1
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
STOP writing agents to scrub your data! NoteMan is a time-saving toolbar of shortcuts for dozens of Notes technical tasks Lotus didn't think of. Have you ever had to write an agent just to change a field value? Walk through the differences between a replication conflict and its parent? Wished you could save an ACL to a file? NoteMan does these and more in just a couple of clicks. Download a 30-day test drive now!
10. NotesMedic Pro - recover from Notes crashes ^Top

Comments: Freeware from Cassetica. Very effective.
Title: NotesMedic Pro
URL: http://www.cassetica.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=8&catid=1
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004

Arrrggghhh!! Notes crashed. Is that something you say too often? If so get NotesMedic Pro to get rid of the reboots needed after a Notes crash.

Welcome to NotesMedic Pro... Cassetica's way to save you time and frustration. NotesMedic Pro is simple to use, fast, and a big time saver. What more could you ask for from software that you don't even have to pay for?


11. ScanEZ - Toolkit for Notes Databases ^Top

Comments: Lets you view and edit all information about Notes Databases
Title: Ytria is a Lotus Notes software tool resource site for developers and administrators
URL: http://www.ytria.com/WebSite.nsf/WebPageRequest/Solutions_scanEZen?OpenDocument&Lang=en
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
Search, view and edit EVERYTHING in a Notes Database
Easy to use GUI, scanEZ lets you search and find the true database information, change and edit (even data types) any document or profile, one document or an entire collection at a time. No more "one shot coding" of agents or views.
Download Now.
  • See and browse the real data/content of a Notes Database (documents to deletion stubs)
  • Change and edit (even data types) any document or profile
  • Access and delete corrupted elements (i.e. $FILE) in a design, document, or "un-openable" databases
  • Do a "diff" on a document collection
  • Also: save/replication Conflicts Solver, ACL tool, Notes.ini file editor...

12. ZapNotes - from Lotus ^Top

Comments: Helps you recover when Notes crashes (rare, but still happens). You need to be registered in this site to be able to download.
Title: Sandbox - ZapNotes 3.4
URL: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ecc552f1ab6e46e4852568a90055c4cd/8aa14311cb0c51c388256aa400804e4e?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,zapnotes
Date Accessed: 13 Oct. 2004
ZapNotes 3.4
 
ZapNotes 3.4 - Now people from around the world look forward to their Notes client crashing! :)

 
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