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Developing with Formativ
Learn more about how Formativ can help you customize GroupWise easily!

To see what's possible with Formativ, download and review a range of Formativ solutions, which are all written with Formativ!

See the Formativ Solutions Page for more information.


What can I develop using Formativ?
Advansys Formativ is a completely new paradigm in GroupWise development. Developers, power users and even casual users are now able to develop Novell GroupWise 6.x and 5.5 solutions using powerful applets. You no longer need to be familiar with several application programming interfaces and development languages. Using Formativ, customizing and extending GroupWise has never been easier!

Advansys Formativ gives you the power to develop a wide range of utilities, enhancements and applications for Novell GroupWise faster and more cost effectively than ever before.

Formativ gives you the power to:

  Record simple applets to automate repetitive GroupWise tasks

  Easily add toolbar buttons and menu items to GroupWise that execute your applets

  Easily associate applets with GroupWise events, such as the On Send Event

  Build solutions that embed your business processes directly into GroupWise

  Build custom forms and dialogs using the dynamic visual forms designer

  Build solutions that create GroupWise messages, including mail, appointments, notes, tasks, phone messages etc.

  Build solutions that can export data from GroupWise, and import data into GroupWise

  Build solutions that access the GroupWise message store, providing full programmatic access to all your email messages, appointments, notes, tasks, phone messages, documents etc.

  Build solutions that integrate directly with GroupWise Address Books

  Use the supplied, out of the box sample applets as is, or modify them to more closely suit your specific needs

  Build solutions that integrate GroupWise with third party applications and systems

  Build solutions that update GroupWise client settings on startup

  Build solutions that modify the appearance and functionality of the GroupWise client

  Build solutions that can be centrally managed using Novell eDirectory/NDS

  Build solutions that have access to the various GroupWise programming interfaces from a unified environment

  And much more!

Industry standard applet language
You develop applets by using the Formativ language, which is 100% compatible with industry standard Visual Basic Script. To provide easy access to the underlying GroupWise message store and the GroupWise client, the Formativ language includes hundreds of commands designed especially for use with Novell GroupWise.

For those users who like to get even deeper into the workings of GroupWise, the Formativ applet language also provides comprehensive access to the underlying native GroupWise Object, Administration and Token programming API's.
Fully integrated development environment
The Formativ development environment is integrated directly into GroupWise, appearing as a natural extension of the GroupWise client. The Formativ Integrated Development Environment includes a dynamic visual forms designer, syntax highlighting editor, GroupWise integration tools and online documentation.
Add GroupWise toolbar buttons and menu items - easily!
Adding new buttons to GroupWise toolbars and new items to GroupWise menu is trivial using Formativ. Simply choose a button image from the gallery, provide descriptive text, and with point and click simplicity, your new buttons and menu items appear in GroupWise - with no programming!

Information about the new buttons and menu items are stored within each applet, so if you share your applet with others, your buttons and menu items automatically appear on their machines!
Associate applets with GroupWise events - easily!
Formativ lets you automatically trigger your applets when specific GroupWise events occur. For example, you can have an applet run automatically when GroupWise starts, new messages arrive in the In Box, when messages or particular types are opened, deleted, sent, etc..

Information about the events, with which your applet is associated, are stored within each applet. If you share your applet with others, your applet will be executed automatically on their machines at the appropriate moment.
Create custom forms and dialogs
The Formativ applet language contains the power needed to create forms and dialogs you can use right in your applets. Create data collection forms, feedback dialogs, wizard dialogs - just about anything you need in your applets which interact with your end users!
Easy access to third party services
The Formativ applet language is based on COM technology. This means you can use any COM service installed on your PC from within your applets!

For example, your applet could extract information from the GroupWise address book and publish it using Microsoft Word, or import Outlook Address book information directly into GroupWise! Or you could have a applet query your corporate CRM or human resources system for key information, then create a GroupWise message based the extracted data. This capability alone makes Formativ the ideal tool for integrating third party systems with GroupWise!
Secure environment
Formativ applets are stored using a proprietary file format and are not Visual Basic Script files. They can only run within the secure Formativ execution environment - this means they cannot be executed as attachments, within email messages or from Windows. They are not executed by the Windows Scripting Host (although this does need to be installed). These architectural features protect you from malicious script-based viruses that plague Microsoft Outlook users.
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