Overview

Notes Menu Launcher is configured with a XML file. The following steps are performed at startup of Lotus Notes

1. When Lotus Notes starts, Notes Menu Launcher is activated since it contains a Notes Addin Menu DLL.
2. Looks in the Registry to see where the XML file is located.
3. Read and process the XML file
4. Insert any potential Action menus
5. Prepare context menus for display.
   
   The next steps are performed when the user selects one of "our" menus:
6. Accept menu selections in Lotus Notes
7. Replace any runtime variables
8. Relay menu ID to dispatcher module in Notes Menu Launcher
9. Execute specified actions in the XML file for the selected menu

Since all Notes Menu Launcher-operation is controlled by the XML file, most of this chapter will look into XML details.