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Release Notes

LiSA 3.0 30.June 2002
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Table of Contents
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LiSA overview
  The five LiSA Components
  Supported platforms
Things you need to know
 CD structure
 Installation
 Migration
 Limits

LiSA overview
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LiSA stands for Lotus i-net Solution Architecture. It’s a "solution" 
architecture because it is designed to re-use basic application 
components, so developers focus on adding value ... not on re-creating the 
basics. And "i-net" means the applications you develop can be used by 
Lotus Notes clients and simultaneously by a standard web browser over the 
Internet, intranet or extranet. Your Lotus Notes investment becomes ready 
for i-net and e-business operation. 
A consistent user interface means the training requirement for new 
applications is reduced. Ongoing changes to your "business basics" like 
people, organizations and processes can be propagated throughout your LiSA 
applications.
The goal of becomming more user friendly beas lead to four initiatives:

The LiSA Organisation module is now fully Web enabled which means you can 
edit the content in Web Browsers
The entire look & feel of LiSA has been revisited with regards to ease of 
adaption.
The demo environment has been improved to allow access from Notes and Web 
Clients and package reuse on your fingertips
The developer tools like LiSA-Design Tracker and LiSA-Package Composer 
will support the new Domino 6 design elements so you can start using LiSA 
for all Domino 6 development now.

In addition several bugs have been resolved in order to increase the 
practical value of the five key components.

LiSA Organization  / Address
LiSA Glossary
LiSA Configure
LiSA Help / LiSA Handbook
LiSA Corporate Look&Feel

This LiSA 3.0 release is a publicly released maintenance version available 
on CD. The LiSA-Help provides a detailed description of all new features 
and further information on this release. 

The five LiSA Components
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LiSA Organization / Address is a corporate and external address directory 
that provides LiSA Address interfaces to integrate Human Capital 
Management with all business solutions. LiSA Organization combines 
security and easy customization to cope with the quickly changing business 
rules required within workflow procedures. The LiSA Address function adds 
flexibility and value by simplifying those organizational solutions that 
handle external address information.

LiSA Glossary ensures that knowledge can be consistently maintained and 
applied in business solutions. It is a dynamic, multilingual index of 
terms, business phrases, categories and keywords that enable knowledge to 
be retrieved and worked on rapidly.  

LiSA Handbook  provides users with a full featured, highly customable 
template for creating all kinds of online manuals. LiSA Help is a LiSA 
Handbook that enables context sensitive help for Lotus Notes and Web 
solutions and adds an inbuilt software problem reporting functionality.

LiSA Configure defines the standard interface for database references and 
application parameters.  LiSA Configure  "glues" solutions together into a 
logical configuration and therefore enables the customer to build 
integrated, reusable and easily maintainable business solutions.

LiSA Corporate Look&Feel enables organizations to easily build, maintain 
and reuse, consistent standardized corporate designs for all Lotus Notes 
and Domino business solutions. This includes concepts, plug &  play 
packages and tools.

Read more on these components and about this release in the LiSA-Help.


Supported platforms
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LiSA 3.0 supports the following server platforms
Win 32 / NT
OS/2, 
AIX, 
Sun Solaris, 
S/390, 
AS/400

(Product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks or 
registered trademarks of their respective owners.)

Things you need to know

CD structure
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The CD  contains various subdirectories as explained below.
LiSA 3.0
this release Notes  

NotesData
 LSA
  EN
   LiSA-Templates LSA*.ntf
   Demo
    LiSA Homepage.nsf and LiSA-Demo databases LSA*.nsf
   DevPk
    LiSA-Development build and library databases lsb*.nsf, lsl*.nsf   
    LSAJava
      Java sources (*.java) in package hierarchy com\lotus\lsa\uicomponents
    LSAScripts
      include files *.lss in subdirectories related to components. Mount 
      "LSAScripts" as your S-Drive during development to access these as include.
    LSAServlet
      lsaservlet.jar ready for installation
   DocuPk
    LiSA-interface definitions as .nsf and .pdf
    LSAJava
     Complete HTML documentation for the above java packages and all 
     applets provided with LiSA
    LSAScripts
     HTML documentation for the above script libraries. 
     
  IDs
     for your convenience the IDs used in the demo databases are also provided. 
     The password for each user ID is "password".
     This allows you to easily check out access rights and experience the 
     functionality.  Also the LiSASave.ID for Cross certification is provided 
     here.

NotesSmarticons 
  for LiSA-Help
  for UDF settings
  for a DesignTyper utility

Tools
 LiSA-DesignTracker
  readme
  DesignTracker.exe
 LSDoc
  readme
  zip file with LSDoc tool

UDF
 AIX
  readme
  Library
   DLL files
  Tools
   Load Test
 AS400
  readme
  Library
   DLL files
 Java
  readme
  Package
   Java package to access the UDF functionality from Java
 OS2
  readme
  Library
   DLL files
 S390
  readme
  Library
   DLL files
 SUN
  readme
  Library
   DLL files
 Win32
  readme
  install routine for UDF only 
  Library
   DLL files

Windows
 install routine of the full LiSA deliverable


LiSA makes use of other licensed material under the terms and conditions 
included in the Licence directory.


Installation
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For Windows an installation routine has been provided, that guides you 
through the installation process:

***** Start the program  setup.exe in the Windows subdirectory of the LiSA CD. 
                        
The install routine for LiSA databases will install by default into the following 
directories
<NotesData>\LSA\EN\Demo
<NotesData>\LSA\EN\DevPk 
<NotesData>\W32
<NotesExecutable>

For other platforms please use the material provided in the Lotus Notes 
data directory as described with the content of the CD. For installation 
copy the files onto your system. If you keep the same directory structure, 
the demo will be readily available. If you change the structure you may 
need to reconfigure the file documents in the LiSA-Configure database.
HINT:
Do not forget to reset the "read only"-flag in the files you copied from 
the CD!

For the other server platforms, where you typically install the 
UDF-modules you will find the operating system versions in the operating 
system sub-directory within the UDF directory. A readme file gives further 
instructions. 

Cross certify your Domino server with the LiSA Development ID. Please read 
the details in the  LiSA-Help documentation in the chapter "LiSA Developer 
Pack / Installation".
 
There is a tools directory on the CD that provides you with the LiSA 
tools. 

The LiSA-DesignTracker is a Windows executable usually copied into your 
Lotus Notes and Domino executable directory.
 
The LSDoc tool is written as a Java program and provided as a Zip file.  
Please follow the instructions in the readme.
 
For further information please consult the chapter in LiSA Help installed 
as part of the demo environment. 


Migration
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While every attempt has been made to stay compatible with the previous 
version, new features and enhancements dictate changes that induce 
incompatibilities. In order to minimize their effects, migration is 
supported by agents. In a replicating environment even after a successful 
migration old data may arrive from remote locations. This may require to 
run the agents several times. On subsequent runs, the agents will only 
handle those Documents that have not been processed previously. 

Detailed information on migration can be obtained from the "Technical 
Information" chapters in LiSA-Help. 

Limits
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Browser support:
LiSA has been tested with

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00
Netscape 4.78
Netscape 6.2.2
Netscape 6.2.3

and a variety of other Releases. There are usually only minor differences 
in the representation of the LiSA Layout (colors, positions, etc. ).  The 
LiSA Development has made any efforts to work around these 
incompatibility. To mention just a few:

Internet Explorer Version 4.72.2106.8 doesn't open a window using 
LiveConnect
Internet Explorer Version 4.72.2106.8 doesn't repaint applets correctly
Older Versions of Netscape display the applet background color grey 
instead of the correct white background.
Netscape 6.2 may not set the focus for input fields in new windows, so it 
is not possible to enter a value in this input field (Example: Creation of 
a new Unit in LiSA-Organisation)
Workaround: Switch the windows, go back to the windows where the input box 
is implemented, so that it will get a focus.
Applets (especially standard View and Outline applets of Domino) where we 
never have seen problems in Netscape 4, are sporadically not properly 
loaded in the Internet Explorer 6 and specifically in Netscape Release 6.
Netscape 6 is sometimes not able to start the "plugin for type 
application/x-java-vm". As a consequence it crashes and you need to end 
the Netsape task manually.

Domino Limits:
LiSA is based on Domino R5, which has a documented limits of 15 KB for 
Fields, 64 KB for Lookup data, 512 Byte for Lookup keys. Although any 
precaution has been made in order to work around this limit you may 
experience limits e.g. in the number of members, the parent units or 
traits you can use in the LiSA-Organization Unit or the number of levels 
in a LiSA-Glossary or the length of parameters in LiSA-Configure may 
expose these limits. Usually these Limits have little relevance in 
practice.

Known issues in Lotus Domino 6 Pre-Releases:
1. The implementation of SmartIcons has changed. With the advent of the 
final version LiSA will provide Support for Lotus Domino 6.
2. The Move Dialog for the hierarchy returns error message "Second 
parameter of @Subset must not be zero"

As far as testing with the Pre-Releases has indicated there are only 
smaller issues and LiSA 3.0 already supports Lotus Domino Release 6 in 
general.


