Flash-based UIs for your Domino-based solutions
Read my newly published article over at IBM developerZone about Flash-based UIs for your Domino-based solutions. Learn how to present not only content from a Domino view but also how to incorporate the design from a plain Lotus Notes view into a Flash-based view. Feel free to give feedback on the article in form of comments to this post.
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I’m very interested in the code for this but IBM hasn’t posted it yet.
Can you send me a copy of the code. I think flash & flex and coldfusion is a good way to extend domino to the web via xmlviews and web services.
Nice feature with automated creation of columns which inherit original font properties!
A question: If the Flash file is put embedded in a Notes document and user is logged in to the document, will Flash in it’s requests to the server automatically append the login cookie stored on the “parent” page? Or do I have to supply the cookie in the object’s properties (PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=”FlashNotesView.swf?data=myLoginCookieValue)?
@Frank Westmoreland: The article and code is copyrighted to IBM so I can\’t send you a copy. I will however investigate why the code hasn\’t got published yet. A good suggestion is to check the article regulary to see if IBM has published in the near future. And yes, there are numerous ways on how to integrate Flash and Domino which I will present in the future.
@Andrei Kouvchinnikov: Thank you. Yes, your right about having to append it to the object\’s properties. Another solution is to have your Flash movie calling a JavaScript function to retrieve the cookie.
@Frank Westmoreland: The files has been fixed on IBMs developerZone now.
Is there anyway to embed the user name and password in the action script or an external php file? I am used to Flash talking with PHP scripts to access DBs. In this scenario the PHP file would authenticate with the DB, not the user of the Flash UI.
@Anthony Doll: You can embed the user name and password within your ActionScript file that with the FLA is compiled into the final SWF Flash movie. However, remember that the SWF can quite easily be decompiled by 3rd party software and is not to be trusted as a secure place to put login information. Not that PHP is a secure place (if you place your login information into included .inc files that is). Either setup encryption between the user and server. Or if you are only interested to setup a trusted communication between the Flash movie and the server delivering XML, setup a proxy (you could write your own in PHP) to not exploit the login information but remember that anyone who uses that proxy have the access which the login account has. So the proxy could be set to only be able to request a static set of sources. Get back to me if you have any questions.