Locating JavaScript in applications

JavaScript can be inserted into various locations within a Domino application, and that flexibility is both a boon and a problem. Follow-on developers may have to go hunting to find an errant function.

JavaScript can be placed on forms or pages in many locations, including these:

• A JavaScript library

• The HTML Head Content area

• The JS Header

• A Web event, like onClick

• Inline as Pass-Thru HTML

• Inline attached to an HTML tag as Pass-Thru HTML

• A separate page or subform

• Form fields (forms only)

• Computed text

Place functions in JavaScript libraries

Unless there is a very good reason not to do so, JavaScript functions should be co-located in one or more JavaScript libraries. Scripts in a library can be shared by all forms and pages in the application, and co-location makes it easier to find functions for maintenance. Function calls, of course, exist in other places.

Create a JavaScript library with Designer. Open Script Libraries as in the following screenshot.

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