The following are some of the new Web 2.0 features that are available in Notes/Domino 8.5.
RSS and ATOM are feed formats used to publish web content that is updated on a regular basis. News organizations, governments, private companies, and even individuals via their daily blogs publish RSS and ATOM feeds. All you need to read these feeds is an RSS or ATOM reader such as Notes 8 and access to the Internet.
Feeds within Lotus Notes 8.5 are included as a sidebar plugin along with the Sametime Contacts, Activities, and Day at a Glance, on the right side of the screen.
With Notes/Domino 8, you can also generate RSS feeds from Domino databases including the new blog template and Domino Web Access. The Domino RSS Syndication template is used to create the feeds from any Domino view. The agents and script libraries from this template can also be used within other applications.
The first step is to create a database to manage your feeds. Create the new application and base it on the RSS Feed Generator template.
Once the database has been created, you will want to set up the global options that apply to all the RSS feeds that are generated. To do this, click Set Global Options in the action bar of the application.
Using the Set Global options dialog, you can control the following:
- The protocol for accessing feeds—either HTTP or HTTPS.
- The
RSS <guid>element prefix—eithernotes://orhttp://. - The default database redirect time, entered in seconds.
- The available feeds header, via HTML.
- The default HTML for the feed database, via HTML.
Once the defaults are set, you can define a feed and direct it to a specific mail file, based on a user or on a specific database.
With a feed defined, you are able to get a listing of all available feeds from the Domino server by directing your browser to the feed database that you created earlier. From this web page, you will be able to add the feed into your favorite RSS feed reader.
With Notes 8 you can create your own web log, or blog, using the new Domino Web Log template (dominoblog.ntf). Once created, you can use either Lotus Notes or a web browser to add content and manage your blog. The resultant web page shows the first entry of the author's blog. The template allows creation of blog entries from the Notes client or from the web site itself.
