When the database opens on the Notes client, you can display:

• A frameset you specify
• A navigator you specify
• A navigator in its own window
• The "About Database" document for the database
• The first attachment in the "About Database" document
• The first doclink in the "About Database" document - Adding a link here gives users access to information in another application from an IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) Designer application. For example, to collect spreadsheet data for use in the application, launch a link to a spreadsheet application so users immediately see the spreadsheet when they open the database. Data entered in the spreadsheet can be used to populate fields in the application. If you choose to launch a page, you will need to specify the page in the Properties box. Designer gives you a drop-down list of the pages that are available to choose from.
• A composite application

• Using the Notes launch option
• The "About Database" document
• A frameset you specify
• A page you specify - in the Database Properties box, Designer gives you a list of the pages that are available to choose from.
• A navigator in its own window
• The first doclink in the "About Database" document
• A doclink you specify
• The first document in a view

1. Select or open the database and choose File - Properties or File - Application - Properties. Make sure that "Database" is chosen from the dropdown list at the top of the Properties box.

2. Click the Launch tab.

3. Choose what to display for a Notes client and for a Web client

4. (Optional) Choose whether to restore the database as the last user viewed it

5. (Optional) Choose whether to display the About This Database document when the database opens for the first time and/or when the About This Database document is modified.

If you choose to launch a doclink

1. Copy the doclink on to the clipboard.

2. Open the Database Properties box.

3. On the Launch tab, choose - On Web open launch designated doclink.

4. Click Paste doclink.

If you choose to launch as a composite application

1. Open the Database Properties box.

2. On the Launch tab, choose - Launch as Composite Application from the "When opened in the Notes client" dropdown list.

3. Select the name of the application that you wish to launch from the Name dropdown list. The entries in the dropdown list are a list of the available composite application .XML files that have been imported into the database.

4. Once a Name is selected in the App Name field, a list of the available pages in that composite application .XML becomes available in the dropdown list of the Page Name field. Select the page of the application that you wish to disply when the composite application is launched.

5. Close the Database Properties box when you have finished.

To launch a Page from the Notes client

1. On the Launch tab of the Database Properties box, choose On Database Open - Open designated Navigator.

2. Select Type of Navigator: Page.

3. Enter or select the name of the Page.

Displaying a document preview automatically

You can automatically display a preview pane that shows the contents of the highlighted document in a database view before the user opens the document. This gives users a sense of what is in a database without having to open and close each document. If you do not display the preview pane automatically, users choose View - Document Preview to access it.

1. Select or open the database you are designing and choose File - Application - Properties.

2. Click the Launch tab.

3. Click "Preview Pane Default." Note that this option is not available if you launch a frameset from the Notes client.

4. Choose a location for the document preview pane to display.

5. Check "Maximize document preview on database open" to display the preview pane automatically. Note that this option is not available when setting launch properties from the Notes client.

See Also

Displaying a navigator when users open a database
Launching a database into a frameset

Glossary