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David Navarre
David Navarre

Reputation: 1022

What code do I use to send a NotesURL for a document in a view?

While I know that I can use the UNID of the document to open the document directly from a link referencing Notes, can it be done with the view name and first column value as in the browser?

For example, I could send:

http://mycompany.com/OpsManual.nsf/Policy/6

To get to Policy #6 in the Operations Manual via the browser client. I thought that I could send:

Notes://mycompany.com/OpsManual.nsf/Policy/6

To send them to the same place in the Notes client, but it always opens to the default Notes opening setting. Is there a form, database or server setting that I have wrong? Or am I mis-remembering how NotesURLs work? Can you only use the NotesURL in LotusScript?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6488

Answers (5)

anIBMer
anIBMer

Reputation: 1209

Notes:///DbReplicaId/viewUnid/YourKeyHere?OpenDocumentByKey

This works for me using LN 8.5

Upvotes: 0

iconoclast
iconoclast

Reputation: 22710

The easiest way to (manually) generate a Notes:// URL is to get a document- or view- or application-link selecting one of those things in the Notes client, and choosing Edit → Copy As → ..., and then pasting the link into a Sametime chat session. Instead of the icon link you'd get if you pasted it into (e.g.) a Notes e-mail message, you get a URL.

If you need to generate the URL programmatically, doing it manually first the way I describe gives you the structure as a starting point.

Also (potentially) useful is pasting the link into a text editor, as it describes the structure for you in XML (or at least an XML-like format).

Upvotes: 1

Phil M Jones
Phil M Jones

Reputation: 823

You need the OpenDocumentByKey parameter to do that, but unfortunately that only works in a web browser, not in the client - so this won't work :-(

Notes://mycompany.com/OpsManual.nsf/Policy/6?OpenDocumentByKey

Alternatively, you can write a bit of LotusScript or formula to find the UNID of the document, and then use that. For example:

docUNID: = @DbLookup("":"" ; "":"" ; "Policy"; policyNumber; 1; [RETURNDOCUMENTUNIQUEID]);
"Notes://mycompany.com/OpsManual.nsf/Policy/" + docUNID

Upvotes: 1

Ken Pespisa
Ken Pespisa

Reputation: 22284

The Notes URL syntax is

notes://servername/database/view/documentuniqueid

You can omit the documentuniqueID and just include the viewID, but you can't specify a row, or jump to a certain row based on its value in a column.

Upvotes: 4

Michael Ruhnau
Michael Ruhnau

Reputation: 1399

Here you can find the notes-url documentation in the Lotus Notes & Domino wiki from IBM: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/notes-urls

As far as I know the view can either be specified by UNID or NoteID.

Upvotes: 0

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