Design and Implementation of Simple Workflow Based on Lotus Domino

Although the developers can create complicated workflow application using Mail database and Lotus workflow tool on Lotus Domino platform,they have to pay more efforts.On Lotus platform,in order to create workflow application rapidly and decrease the workload of developers,the Author field and View are used in the design of form,to filtrate the documents in the database.Besides,in the design of form,a field is set to indicate which activity a document is on,and a series of codes are used for determining the next reader of the document according to the status of it.With this method,simple workflow application can be created rapidly.This method is expansible,easy to be implemented and can be reference to the development of other workflow applications.