Chapter 7. Views
Views serve as indexes to documents in a database. Virtually all Domino applications that contain composed documents also contain one or more views that facilitate locating and re-opening previously saved documents. Some views are intended for users, and some views are intended to be used only by internal processes or by formulas to look up values. Of course, you can use the same view for both users and lookups, but doing so can be problematic.
As seen with the Notes client, views look and operate similarly. Clicking on a document (a row) in the view opens the document, usually on a separate tab. The view remains open. Closing the document returns focus to the view. Of course, on the Web, things are not quite so simple.
In a standard non-categorized view, each row represents a document, and each column contains data from the documents listed in the view. Overall a view looks like a table, and on the Web that is how they are usually rendered as HTML tables. As the rows and...
