During development of a new application, we ran across a situation that I’m sure some of you have seen. We have a parent document and children documents. The children are only displayed in an embedded view in the parent document. So, when you open up the parent, you see an embedded view with “show single category” enabled that shows all the children of that parent. Those children don’t show up in any other view, so you must open up the parent to see them. There’s buttons in the parent to create a child, edit a child, delete a child, etc.
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Most of you know that in the United States dates are shown in MM/DD/YYYY format, where many parts outside the U.S. use DD/MM/YYYY format. (And us Americans are also clueless about the metric system that everyone else uses, but that’s another topic). Anyway, on to the tip. What if you have a text date in a certain format and need to convert it to a Notes date-time value?
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There’s always the trouble with validation formulas executing when you don’t want them to execute. For example, if you have a radio button set to “Refresh Fields On Keyword Change”, then validation formulas will execute when the value changes and your users will get prompted with their errors. This would be a case where you don’t want the users to be prompted.
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If you would like to open a different navigator based on the user’s screen resolution, there is a pretty easy way to do it using the Windows API (assuming your clients are Windows clients).
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This JavaScript regular expression will validate a Notes ID. To use the function, call “isValidNotesID” and pass in the Notes ID to be checked and an optional parameter of the number of slashes that should be in the ID. If the parameter is omitted, it defaults to 1 slash. For example, if the ID is supposed to be in the format of “John Doe/MyCompany”, then you can call isValidNotesID(myString). But if the format is supposed to be “John Doe/MyCity/MyCompany”, then you’ll need to call isValidNotesID(myString, 2).
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Notes has provided access to the formula language in any text field. If you place a valid @-formula into a text field and press SHIFT+F9, the formula will be computed and the value for the text field replaced with the results of the formula.
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Why would you want to?
Well, there’s a few reasons we can think of. First, you may want to capture the ESC key and trigger a JavaScript history.back() function so the ESC key on the browser will mimic the ESC key in the Notes client.
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We were working on a web application recently. The application was to be used on the client’s server and had only one “foreground” agent (accessed through the ?OpenAgent URL). Since we wouldn’t have access to run agents on their server, the agent was set up to run as the current web user. The agent, when this setting is enabled, runs under the authority of the currently logged-on web user (or under “Anonymous” if the user hasn’t authenticated). Or so we thought…
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You Cannot Copy, Forward or Print a Form or Message in Lotus Notes You Have Created Even Though You Did Not Choose To Prevent This.
There are occasions when you are unable to forward, print or copy a message or form despite the fact that you have not chosen this option. How does this occur, and what are all the ways of adding the $KeepPrivate field to a document in order to discourage copying, printing and forwarding?
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Starting with version 5.03 of the Notes API, the ability to refresh the design of a database through the API has been exposed. The API call, in its most basic form, is surprisingly easy to use in LotusScript. This tip shows you how to do it.
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