Finding missing dependencies in your applications using Design Manager
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True story. I inherited an application that was a mess. It was about halfway finished and completely undocumented. I needed to get this into production ASAP, but was getting lots of errors when compiling LotusScript. So what did I do?
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Design Manager is a great tool that has quite a lot of features. Scanning for missing dependencies was a great help in this particular scenario.
I launched Design Manager and chose "Database" --> "Scan Dependencies"
The results are in the bottom pane. Below is an example:
Scanning dependencies...
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Form CONFIG - JavaScript|cfg_Res_JavaScript
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONTENT - Photo Import|content_PhotoImport
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONTENT - Resource - Image|content_Image
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form LOG - Agent Error|OpenLog_Event
missing 'Agent LogEventWebQuerySave' (not found).
Form CONTENT - Web Poll|content_WebPoll
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONTENT - Blog Entry Language|content_BlogEntry_Language
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - Agent Setup|cfg_AgentSetup
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form LOG - SearchEngine|log_Search
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form LOG - RSS|log_RSS
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONTENT - Comment|content_Comment
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - AntiSpam - IP Address BlockList|cfg_Spam_IpAddressBlock
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form LOG - Referrer|log_Referer
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - Emoticons|cfg_Res_Emoticons
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - Blog Configuration|cfg_BlogConfig
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - AntiSpam- Whitelist|cfg_Spam_Whitelist
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - AntiSpam- Whitelist|cfg_Spam_Whitelist
missing 'Image Resource backgr_form.gif' (not found).
Form CONFIG - HotText|cfg_Res_HotText
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - AntiSpam - Blacklist|cfg_Spam_Blacklist
missing 'Image Resource Replicate' (not found).
Form CONFIG - AntiSpam - Blacklist|cfg_Spam_Blacklist
missing 'Image Resource backgr_form.gif' (not found).
Page BlogSphere Configuration Menu|FS_ConfigurationPage
missing 'Image Resource advancedout.gif|AdvOutline' (not found).
The scan found 20 missing project element(s). 0 of these were found in libraries.
Done
This allows me to identify any missing code references. From there I would then know how to start fixing the application.
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