I had a death in the family and won’t be able to play with it until next week.

Thanks for your help

Does this information have to go in a rich text field? Do you have a text field you can use instead (or add one)? If so, you could simply assign the field the final value.

Also, you should create the full value of the field in a variable before assigning it. For instance, you could improve the look of the information by including the question, add line breaks, etc.. Then, if you change the button later, the question answered would display in the response.

This also uses the common name component of @name to get the user’s name, instead of parsing it out. I think that makes more sense as well.

FinalValue := Q1T + “: ” + Q1A + @newline + Q2T + “: ” + Q2A + @newline + … + @name([cn]; @username);
@setfield(“hckrptTXT”; FinalValue)

My team has a db we use for storing audit documentation. We want collect data from another team and store it in the db. The other team only has write access to some fields in the doc we intended to use. I tried to do a quick solution by putting a button in the doc with the following code to collect the data. Initially this was going to generate an email that would be sent back to a team mailbox. Then I tried to code the button to just update the field in the form directly.

Sub := "Log Survey | ";

REM {------------------------------------------Text for questions---------------------------------------------};

Q1T := "Q1 text?";
Q2T := "Q2 text?";
Q3T := "Q3 text?";

REM {------------------------------------------Y/N questions---------------------------------------------------};

Q4T := "Q4 text?";
Q5T := "Q5 text?";

REM {-------------------------------------------Prompts-------------------------------------------------------};

account := @Prompt([OkCancelEdit];"Account";"Enter the Account(s):";accountdef);

Q1A := @Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; "Q1"; +Q1T; "");
Q2A := @Prompt([OkCancelEditCombo]; "Q2"; +Q2T; "Daily" ; "Daily" : "Weekly" : "Monthly");
Q3A := @Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; "Q3"; +Q3T; "");

Q4A := @Prompt([OkCancelList] : [NoSort]; "Q4"; +Q4T; "Yes"; "Yes" :"No");
Q5A := @Prompt([OkCancelList] : [NoSort]; "Q5"; +Q5T; "Yes"; "Yes" :"No");

REM {--------------------------------------------Generate email------------------------------------------------------------------};

atf := @Right(@Left(@UserName; "/");"=");
firstname :=@Word(atf;" ";1);

Subject := +Sub+account +" | " +Q1A+ " | " +Q2A +" | " +Q3A+" | " +Q4A+ " | "+Q5A+" | "+Q6A+" | "+Q7A+" | "+Q8A+" | "+Q9A+" | "+Q10A ;

@SetField("hckrpt"; +subject;

(etc)

I think what you are saying is to create a new doc in the db which makes sense to me, but I haven't done that for a couple of years and would have to relearn it.  Also although I have the authorities to create docs I'm a little afraid of screwing something else up.

In summary, I'm where I am because of my ignorance.  I have a hammer (familiar with the button and limited formula language) so everything looks like a nail.

I’m kind of confused by the requirement. Why would you have someone respond to a survey, then push the data to a rich text field? Why not have the data save to the survey document and save the information there? If the end result is a requirement to show the survey answers on some other form, then display the survey results document in summary in an embedded view and use an embedded form to display the full survey document in the main form. This is all simple Notes stuff with no scripting required.

I have to agree with Stiletto. LotusScript is the answer. However, I would create a new richtextitem object, set it to your rich text field, populate the field, then Call an Update.

set RTITEM = New Notesrichtextitem(doc, “dspsupportingevidence”)

‘populate the richtext item.
‘YOUR CODE HERE
‘then update RTITEM.

Call RTITEM.Update