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Matt Smith
Matt Smith

Reputation: 123

open document with alternate form from a link

Similar to the functionality of using a form formula in a view, I would like to figure a way to provide someone with a link to a document via a URL and have it open in an alternate form. I'm trying not to modify the actual form value on the document, that gets messy to keep straight.

The form is a very complicated form with tabbed tables and 90% admin data, but I would like to turn over the maintenance of just one small set of fields to the user community without them seeing everything else.

Is there a way to force a link to open it BY WAY OF A VIEW that has a form formula? That is what I am thinking. Either that or I create/populate some smallish document when providing the link, then send them a link to this smaller document and have it update the 'parent' in it's webquerysave event.

Thanks,

Matt

Upvotes: 1

Views: 629

Answers (2)

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz

Reputation: 14628

I remember having a conversation about this with one of the original developers of the Domino web server many, many years ago -- but I wasn't 100% certain that I remembered the answer correctly. So, I just searched through my old documents looking for a draft of the article I was writing when I had that conversation (in 1997!). It turns out that I didn't cover it in that particular article, but I did cover it several years later in one of the chapters that I wrote for the Lotus Notes & Domino 6 Programming Bible

You may be wondering why, since a UNID uniquely identifies any note, is it necessary to include both a Document UNID and a View UNID in a URL. The same question actually applies to doclinks, which were discussed above. The truth is that you don’t have to include a View UNID in either case, but it does serve a purpose if you do. You can replace the View UNID in a URL with a zero, retaining the slash characters that surround it. If you do this, Domino will not be able to execute a Form formula, which you may have included in the code of one or more Views in your application. See chapter 15 for more information about Form formulas.

In other words, if you include the UNID of a view that has the Form Formula that you wnat in the ?OpenDocument URL that you are sending to the server. The Form Formula will be respected.

Upvotes: 2

D.Bugger
D.Bugger

Reputation: 2359

If you want to open the document in Notes, you could try to send them a notes-URL, in the form of

notes://yourServer/yourDatabase.nsf/yourView/yourKey?OpenDocument

Upvotes: 2

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