Lotus Domino Designer 6.5 Help - Creating a frameset

APPLICATION DESIGN

Creating a frameset
1. Open Designer and choose Create - Design - Frameset. The Create New Frameset dialog box appears.

2. At the "Number of frames" drop-down box, select two, three, or four frames. You can make adjustments later.

3. Next to Arrangement, click one of the arrangements for the frames.

4. Click OK. The frameset with the chosen layout appears.

5. (Optional) Use the Frame action buttons, the Frame menu options, or keyboard keys to further refine your frameset. You can:

Save the frameset.
Split the selected frame vertically by choosing Split into Columns (SHIFT+INSERT key).
Split the selected frame horizontally by choosing Split into Rows (INSERT key).
Delete the selected frame by choosing Delete Frame (CTRL+DELETE key).
Refresh the content of the selected frame by choosing Refresh Content.
Remove the content of the selected frame by choosing Remove Frame Content (DELETE key).
Flip the frameset horizontally by choosing Flip Horizontally.
Cycle through frames by using the TAB key (SHIFT+TAB cycles backwards).

6. Open the Frameset Properties box. At the Basics tab:

Name the frameset.
Provide an alias for the frameset. An alias is an internal name for the frameset. Use an alias to change or translate the frameset name without causing reference problems. The alias appears with the initial list of framesets in the Work pane.
Add a comment. The comment appears with the initial list of framesets in the Work pane.
Click "Available for public access" if you want to have the frameset available for public access.
Enter a title for the frameset in the Title field or use a formula to compute the frameset title by clicking Formula Window and entering the formula. The frameset title is the name that appears in the Windows tab when the frameset is launched.

7. Add content to each frame by using the Frame Properties box.

8. To move borders between frames, you can:

To drag the border left, press the left (or right) arrow key.

To drag the border right, press SHIFT+the left (or right) arrow key.

To drag the border up, press the up (or down) arrow key.

To drag the border down, press the SHIFT+the up (or down) arrow key.

9. To preview the frameset:

To preview the frameset on the Web, choose Frame - Preview in Web browser and choose a browser.
To look at the HTML source, select Other - Synopsis in the Design pane. In the Design Elements tab of the Design Synopsis dialog box, choose framesets from the drop-down list and select and add each frameset for which you want to view the HTML source. Make sure to check "Include JavaScript and HTML" in the Content tab.

You can also look at the HTML source by previewing the frameset on the Web and then viewing the source with the chosen Web browser.

To preview the frameset in Notes, you can launch the database into the frameset or choose Preview in Notes from the Designer toolbar or Frame menu.

Using the View menu with framesets

When you are designing frames and framesets, the View menu contains the following commands:

Refresh all -- refreshes the content of each frame with changes you have made since opening the frameset.
Show Frame Content -- once you have populated the frames, you can use this menu option to view either the actual content of the frame or a short description of the frame content. For example, instead of an actual Web page appearing in a frame, the frame contains text such as:
Content type: URL
Content value: http://www.lotus.com/

See Also

Designing framesets