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Marko
Marko

Reputation: 13

How do I make a pop-up input box in Lotus Notes?

I have some code that needs to be updated. Inside of that code I want to get text input from a user.

What @-formula should be used to get text-input from a Lotus user ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2399

Answers (2)

user1918954
user1918954

Reputation: 13

If you send a button via email, you essentially turn over the code to the end user. You don't say what you're doing with the button or why you're prompting the user for input but I'd suggest the following. This assumes you just want answers to a question. Create a db to store answers. Send an email that includes a link to the 'answers' db. The db postOpen event can either spawn a doc with an input field or spin up a LS driven input box. The user fills in the box and the LS creates a doc in the Answers db. This isolates the design from the user and saves data/docs where you actually need the info. If you need the data in some existing app, just modify the concept

Upvotes: 0

user784540
user784540

Reputation:

There's [OkCancelEdit] key available for @Prompt function. It brings up a simple input-box dialog.

To input short text from the keyboard, consider the following formula code:

REM "Receiving the text from the keyboard";
_enteredText:=@Prompt([OkCancelEdit] ; "Information request" ; "Enter your recommendation:"; "");

REM "Just to check, what we have typed";
@Prompt([OK]; "debug"; _enteredText);

I have created a simple button to demonstrate the code behaviour. check the pictures below:

input text

And when a user has accepted the input box:

just for debug

In case you need to add a large piece of text, consider making a dialog box.

Create a form for dialog and use @DialogBox formula command.

You can find all relevant information in Domino Designer Help. When you are in Domino Designer, press F1, or select from menu Help - Help Contents

Upvotes: 4

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