7.1. About Domino agents

Agents allow you to automate many tasks within Domino. They are standalone programs that can perform a specific task in a database for the user (for example, filing documents, changing field values, sending mail messages, deleting documents) or that can perform more powerful actions (such as interacting with external applications). Agents are the most flexible type of automation because they can be run by users or in the background, and they are not tied to a specific view or form.

Agents can either be private (that is, created by the user and used only by the user), or shared (that is, created by a designer and used by anybody who has sufficient access to the application). Both private and shared agents are design elements ...

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