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Anand Murugan
Anand Murugan

Reputation: 857

How to Identify the Document is in Inbox/Draft/Sent in Lotus Notes Using Notes API?

DocumentCollection documents = db.getAllDocuments(); Document doc = collection.getFirstDocument();

Which method used to identify the document Location. Whether it is in Inbox or Sent or Drafts.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6450

Answers (4)

angryITguy
angryITguy

Reputation: 9561

This problem involves 2 aspects. Folders and views. You can accomplish in two parts. Firstly, you can check this IBM technote that addresses your question in relation to folders (ie Inbox is a folder).

The "Draft" and "Sent" design elements are views, and therefore must be searched differently. You can accomplish this by using the "contains" method of the NotesViewEntryCollection like so:

Function FindDocument(view As notesView, doc As notesDocument) As Boolean
    On Error Goto errHandle
    Dim vec As NotesViewEntryCollection
    Dim bFound As Boolean

    bFound = False
    Set vec = view.AllEntries
    If vec.Contains(doc) Then
        bFound = True
    End If
    FindDocument = bFound
    Exit Function
errHandle:
    Print Lsi_info(2) + ":" + Str(Err) + " - " + Error(Err) + _
    ", at line " + Str(Erl)
    Exit Function
End Function

Note that you can use this function for any view not just sent/draft views.

Upvotes: 1

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz

Reputation: 14628

Inbox is a folder. Sent and Drafts are views. Here's an approach which will work the same way for both views and folders:

  • Use View myView = Database.getView to get either the ($Inbox), ($Sent) or ($Drafts) view.
  • Create an empty NoteCollection object
  • Use NoteCollection.add(doc) to put your document into the collection
  • Then use NoteCollection.intersect(myView).
  • If NotesCollection.Count !=0, your document is still in the NoteCollection, therefore it was in the view or folder that you are testing.

Upvotes: 1

D.Bugger
D.Bugger

Reputation: 2359

Open the mail database in the Domino Designer and look at the views and folders. If it's a view there is a Select statement, see what documents are selected. If it's a folder, you have to know how documents are attached to the folder.

($Sent) is a view, but ($Drafts) and ($Inbox) are folders. For the latter two, you indeed have to use FolderReferences.

Upvotes: 0

Ken Pespisa
Ken Pespisa

Reputation: 22284

The safest way is to get a handle to each folder using db.GetView() and then look to see if the document is within that folder. For that you could use the db.AllEntries() method to get a NotesViewEntryCollection, and then call the GetEntry method to see if the document is within that collection.

If you have folder references enabled for the database, you might be able to use the folderreferences property of the Notes Document to make things easier.

Upvotes: 1

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