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Comment - Re: Best practice (Part 1)

Comment by Anura Samara on 20 Aug 2002 ():

I work exclusively on web applications, separately to the rest of the Notes developers in this organisation.

I found I was really getting stuck into LotusScript, but one tip they gave me (and I have since picked up from other sites) is to use @Functions instead of LS. The reason? It's a lot easier for the next developer to maintain. That's not to say we shouldn't use LS where it is needed, but why not go for the simpler option first?

The other best practice method I use is to throw absolutely everything at editable documents. I have inherited several applications where there is some obscure bit of coding (ie. HTML) fixed in a field or subform or something. To change the page design in the browser means I have to change the database design, get the template published, etc. Much easier to just change a doc somewhere!

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