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LotusScript Create and Edit NotesDocument via NotesUIWorkspace
03/01/2010 10:18:55 AM by Chris Toohey
I had a request from a customer recently: they wanted to be able to quick-post a new document in a particular application by highlighting/selecting an existing NotesDocument and pre-populating a Form with values from the highlighted/selected document. Easy enough, but I thought that I would share the technique as part of the things you should know series...
Let's take a look at the function, and then discuss exactly what I'm doing:
Function quickpost(doc As NotesDocument) As NotesDocument Dim s As New NotesSession Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace Set quickpost = s.CurrentDatabase.CreateDocument Call doc.CopyAllItems(quickpost) 'Remove any NotesItems that you won't need... Call quickpost.RemoveItem("$UpdatedBy") Call quickpost.RemoveItem("$Revisions") 'Add any NotesItems that you will need... Call quickpost.ReplaceItemValue("quickpost", "1") 'Open the newly-created quickpost in the Notes UI... Call w.EditDocument(True, quickpost) End Function
provided by Julian Robichaux at nsftools.com.
... and that's it really: I simply create a new NotesDocument in the target NotesDatabase (which happens to be the same NotesDatabase in this example), CopyAllItems from the doc source NotesDocument to the target quickpost NotesDocument, and then open that newly created NotesDocument via the NotesUIWorkspace EditDocument function.
Using this technique, you don't have to save the quickpost NotesDocument before you open it in the UI, which allows the user to cancel out of the operation without creating orphan NotesDocuments in your app!
Of course, you could evolve this markup to include a Data Model Controller that could conditionally preset the quickpost NotesItems (such as an incremetal revision counter), etc., but that's a different post for another day!
If you didn't know about this technique, have at it! If you did, let me know what other gems we should be discussing here for the more novice developers (or at least novice Lotus Notes Client developers).
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The code you posted is pretty straight-forward. What I'd like to see is how you would "evolve this markup to include a Data Model Controller".
It is also worth mentioning that you could set the form to inherit values from selected document. There are certain cases where this isn't desirable, but where you can use it, it is the simplest way to go. So, it still falls under "things you should know".
@Timothy:
This would include the use of a Script Library and another function: control(quickpost). The control function would look to the Script Library for the specific NotesItems and their intended correlating value(s) in a sense "completing" the NotesDocument.
Add to that a configuration-based Controller (something that looks to admin-defined logic NotesDocuments for the Controller logic... well that's just gold!
@Maria:
You're absolutely right! The only reason I didn't mention that approach is more of a preference to move people away from depending on UI-driven Data Controllers. It's good in a pinch, and even has some decent real-world application for Form Design Element-based popups, but moving away from that should be the goal.