Designing a Notes Application

Although there's no single approach to building a database, this section provides a general roadmap to building a database from scratch. Included are step-by-step instructions for creating a database using most of the design element constructs. At the completion of the project, you should understand the logical progression of the database design and be familiar with many of the design elements. Now, let's review the sequential steps we'll follow to build the application.

Step 1.	Create the Database
Step 2.	Create the Form and Fields
Step 3.	Create the View
Step 4.	Create the Script Library
Step 5.	Add Buttons to the Form
Step 6.	Add Buttons to the View
Step 7.	Add Navigation
Step 8.	Create Welcome and Help Documents
Step 9.	Customize the Database Icon
Step 10.	Set the Database Security

Using this approach, you'll gradually incorporate more and more functionality into the database. Because virtually all database applications contain forms and views, you'll start with these two elements. From here, you'll add code to manage task automation, create buttons, build a script library, and finally customize the appearance and navigation.