Comments on: Display Lotus Notes Document field

By: bllittle

bllittle — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:57:17 +0000

OK, another thought. Is there a way to specify the Table and Cell addresses since I’ve named them and use a Write command of some kind?

There’s got to be more than one way to skin a cat as the saying goes.

By: bllittle

bllittle — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:57:55 +0000

thank you for the suggestion about Advanced Menues. I found that and it was already activated (checked). I tried unchecking it and looked again, then checked it again, but to no avail.

By: edvabnik

edvabnik — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:15:40 +0000

You can activate advanced menu (under menu view) to see additional item as “create – computed text”

By: bllittle

bllittle — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:22:19 +0000

Unfortunately, that option does not appear under the Create menu in my company’s installation. I’ve looked for it under other menues and sub menues, but it just doesn’t appear to be available to me.

I guess my hope of having this functionality it shot. Yes, the values can be stored, but without some means of providing the client with visual verification they’ve submitted the values they intended, that wouldn’t be acceptable.

I want to thank you, though, for your kind guidance.

By: stiletto

stiletto — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:08:38 +0000

Well, that’s not going to work, because (as you already know) the cell image property is for inserting a graphic. Notes is going to evaluate your @GetField and try to find a graphic file with that name to display. It’s not going to simply display the result of your code. So, unless you’ve got a graphic named “Name1″, this approach is DOA.

Instead, try placing your cursor in the table cell itself and choosing Create –> Computed Text… Put your @GetField there.

By: bllittle

bllittle — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:50:27 +0000

OK, I tried this by the following: In my table properties, I went to the cell's Cell Image source, I put:

 @GetField("iAssignee").

In the button, I have:

Assignees := "Name1" : "Name2"  (etc);
Assignee := @Prompt([OkCancelEditCombo]:[NoSort]; "Analysts" ; "Please choose an analyst for this overall issue (can be different from action item assignee)"; "Name1";  Assignees);
@SetField("iAssignee"; Assignee);
@Command([ViewRefreshFields]);

I realize that cell image is supposed to be for inserting a file but thought I might be able to use its computed value to pull in the field value. Alas, it is still simply a blank cell after update; when I look at the document properties and the fields stored, iAssignee is being properly stored, but the table still does not have any value in the cell I programmed. I'm basically attempting to recreate functionality available in Outlook of creating a custom form within an email message. I used to design applications in Notes years ago (perhaps release 4 or so in about 1991), but since then I've been working for employers who used Outlook. Now I'm back at an employer using Notes and would like to recreate some of the ease of entry for internal clients when they have standard requests that I could provide to clients who used Outlook. Thanks again for your guidance.