Lotus Domino Administrator 8 Help - Creating a form to define a new LDAP structural object class

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Creating a form to define a new LDAP structural object class
The procedures that describe how to using the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Directory to create a new structural object class use the following:

ACMENAMES.NTF as the file name for the copy of the Domino Directory template. Where ACMENAMES.NTF appears, substitute the file name of the copy of the Domino Directory template you created.
acmePrinter as the name of the new structural object class. Substitute the name of the object class you are adding.
(LDAP country) form and the $countryInheritableSchema and $countryExtensibleSchema subforms, which come with the Domino Directory, as templates to use as a basis for creating the new form and subforms.

The first step in using the Domino Directory to create a new LDAP structural object class is creating a form as follows:

1. Make sure that you are working in a copy of the Domino Directory template (ACMENAMES.NTF) and that you have at least Designer or Manager access in the ACL.

2. From the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Desinger, open ACMENAMES.NTF.

3. Do the following to copy the contents of the (LDAP country) form into a new form:

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select the (LDAP country) form and use copy and paste to copy it.

In the left pane, select Forms.
Open the (LDAP country) form, choose Edit - Select All, then Edit - Copy.
Close the (LDAP country) form.
Click New Form, and choose Edit - Paste.

4. With the new form open, delete the words LDAP Country at the top of the new form, and replace them with a label describing the new type of entry -- for example, Acme Printer:

5. Choose Design - Form Properties, and do the following:

Next to the Name property, enter xxx, where xxx is the name of the new object class -- for example:

AcmePrinter

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You can use a backslash (\) in the name of the new form so that the form name cascades from an item in the Notes Create menu. If you use the backslash, add the right-most portion of the name as an alias to the form name so that the object is correctly named in the LDAP schema. For example, to cascade the acmePrinter form from LDAP, name the form LDAP\acmePrinter | acmePrinter.

(Optional) Deselect the Display property "Include in menu" to prevent Notes and Web users from creating documents from the form. When a Notes or Web user creates a document, LDAP users can't search the new documents until after the Indexer runs to update the views.
Deselect the Options property "Render pass through HTML in Notes."
Leave the other properties the same, and close the Form properties box.

6. On the Mandatory tab of the new form, select the Type field and in the field formula in the pane below, change "country" to the name of the new object class enclosed in quotation marks -- for example:

"acmePrinter"

Specifying the Type field

7. Do the following to remove the $countryInheritableSchema subform from the new form:

On the Mandatory tab, click the phrase "Mandatory Attributes" to set focus on the $countryInheritableSchema subform.
Verify that the $countryInheritableSchema subform is selected in the bottom pane.
Choose Edit - Delete to remove the $countryInheritableSchema subform.

8. Close and save the new form.

9. Do the following:

In the left pane, select Forms.
Select the new form, and choose Design - Design Properties.
Click the third tab from the left, and select "Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify."

10. Complete the procedure "Creating and inserting an $xxxInheritableSchema subform."

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