Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Design Applications Based on Design Element IDs: UNID and NOTEID

Notes/Domino documents are the fundamental storage units of a Domino database, and they are roughly analogous to records in a relational database. Like a record, a document is the container that holds logically related fields, such as contact information. Unlike records in a relational database, though, documents have a very loose structure and can be changed on the fly if you use either different forms to save the document or programs that add or delete items from the document. Although this open-ended architecture may seem like a convoluted and confusing methodology, it gives developers unparalleled flexibility.

Normally, a document is created when a user opens a form and saves ...