I've created a Notes View and I wanna show (for some reason) the current user's name in all rows using this formula:
#Name([CN];#UserName)
This was supposed to show the current user name regardless of the document of the current row, but it shows different user names in different row instead, which is quite astonishing for me.
Note that I just wanna see the current user name in this columns on many users' desktop and later on I'll remove this column and will use this formula in some other column for a comparison purpose, which I know how to do.
Please help!
The documentation explains that you can not do this:
When a formula runs on a server, the agent signer is considered the
current user. Therefore, #UserName should only be used on local
databases, where it will return the user's name. Using #UserName in
server-based private views also returns the user's name, but produces
unpredictable results if the views on the server are rebuilt using
Updall. You should not use #UserName in a public view, doing so
produces unpredictable results.
Source: https://help.hcltechsw.com/dom_designer/12.0.2/basic/H_USERNAME.html
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I am having a little difficulty uploading information into an Excel from PowerApps.
I created an app with 3 different data sources, 2 of them are SharePoint Lists where the information is uploading without any trouble. The 3rd one, an Excel table, is… not.
I am using the Excel in order to obtain a random name from "Colum1", the logic I found for it is:
Set(varRandom, Last( FirstN ( Filter(TableName, IsBlank(Column2)),1+RoundDown(Rand()*CountRows(TableName),0))).'Column1')
This works, giving a random name although I haven't figured how to take the user itself out of the equation. (Meaning, if I am using the app, I don't want to get my own name randomly selected)
From how it works, I want that when you touch a different button it submits the information that that random name has already been selected by someone, therefore, it can't be picked again. I tried "SubmitForm(FormName)" at first, but I believe I am missing information to tell Excel what to take from the data I am feeding it with and where to send it.
This means just uploading any data into Column3, which starts all blank so everyone can be randomly picked.
I am not a coder, so there's 89% chances I am just writing the functions wrong, but everything else on the app works fine: random selection, navigation between several screens, and the information being submitted to the 2 SharePoint lists.
In short: I need to
Remove the user using the app from the random selection
Uploading any data into the third column so that one name can't be picked twice.
Can anyone assist?
To remove your name from being selected, first you need to let the app know what the name of the user is. You can ask the name of the user and store it in a variable.
Then, if I understand correctly, you write something down on the Column3 when a name is picked to let you know the name was already used and can't be used again. After you know the name of the user, you can write something down right away on the 'Column3' in the row corresponding to the user's name so it can't be picked anymore.
To help you with the Excel we'll need to know where you save your excel file.
Best regards
I'm currently tasked to redesign an application form where several fields will need to auto-fill based on the data from a specific field when it is entered.
Since I'm relatively new to LotusNotes, my boss hinted at me to first create a view which displays the fields to auto-fill. Which I did:
| Visitor Name | Company Name | Contact No | Date Entered |
Visitor Name is the field which will determine the data for Company Name and Contact No when it auto-fills in the form. Date Entered will see which data is the most recent and will use that. Also the field must be set as Editable to allow user to change the data if need be.
However, when trying to modify the form, I can't quite get how to link the view together with my desired field in the form.
I tried #DbLookup and created the formula
#If(VisitorName = "";"";VisitorName != ""; #DbLookup("" : "" ; "Local":"D:\LotusNotes Project\HR002a.nsf"; "Visitor View";#text(ContactName);#Text(CompanyName));"")
But it doesn't seem to work when I place it in Default Value or Input Translation. Even changing the filed to Computed doesn't seem to help as well.
What else am I missing in my formula?
You could simplyfiy your formula
#If(VisitorName != ""; #DbLookup("";#dbname;"Visitor View";#text(ContactName);2;[FailSilent]);"")
I am assuming this is a form used in the Notes clieny, not on the web. If this is a web form, you need a different approach.
You could very well use #DBLookup for that task. To improve performance, concatenate all the values into one column, perform the #DbLookup on the form, retrieving the concatenated values, then split them into separate values and populate the different fields.
You could also use Lotusscript. You want to look at the NotesView class and the NotesViewEntry class (assuming you want to build it for performance). Use the ColumnValues property of the NotesViewEntry class to read the columns in the view. Remember that the first column needs to be sorted.
Or your company could hire someone that already know Notes and Domino, and have that done in an hour. That would probably be financially a better choice than you spending hours or days on this fairly simple task. There are many of us here (me included) who could jump in and fix this for your company.
I have to embed a PowerBI scorecard visual on a website. I've set up the scorecard in PowerBI Desktop, and it looks fine; the slicer for the scorecard filters the employee name.
I'd like for the employee that visits the company website to see only their data in the scorecard- in other words, their presence on the website would automatically filter the scorecard to reveal their statistics only. Fortunately, they have to login to the company's website by providing their Windows credentials.
I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I understand that I have to use the "Security" portion of the "Modeling" tab, and I've (successfully) created an explicit role for one viewer by using the following code:
'Table1'[Employee Name] = "John Smith"
Of course, this only reflects John Smith's statistics when I click "View as Roles." I don't think it's practical to explicitly write a DAX code snippet for every single employee, since my company has 3000+ employees.
Can anyone share any instructions, or lead me to some?
Thank you in advance.
I had to deal with a similar issue, though we view our dashboards within the Power BI service, so that is the authentication I am familiar with. The basis for this form of dynamic row level security is that the expression written is evaluated for each row in the indicated table to either True or False.
If your user has signed in to the you will be able to determine the identity using USERPRINCIPALNAME(). This is the email address they use to sign into the service.
Since you are displaying data specific to that user, it is possible you already have their email in your data. If that is the case, and it is simply another field in your table your validation line would look something like:
'Table1'[Email] = USERPRINCIPALNAME()
The left side of the expression refers to the row you are referencing, while the right will supply the name of the authenticated user. If you don't have that available in your existing data, you could use a DAX expression to lookup the Employee name from a list of emails and their associated names.
In this case, you only have one role which everyone needs to be assigned to, and the logic above will determine which rows they can see.
This is a simple example in which each employee can only see their own data. The model can be extended by creating 'security tables' with users and their associated records, and then utilizing the CONTAINS() function to check authorization, but it sounds like you have a 1-to-1 relationship with what individuals should be able to see.
I have a form. When I open the form the two fields called office and group should be picked up from another database named something like staff.nsf. The data is picked up based on the applicant name as key. I have included my name in staff database. But the form is not picking up the two fields from the staff database.
The field formula goes like this,
server := #Name([CN]; #Subset(#DbName; 1));
temp:= #If(Applicant != ""; #DbLookup( "" : "NoCache"; server:"Mast\\Staff.nsf";
"ByApplicant";Applicant; 2); "");
#If(#IsError(temp);"";temp)
Is it a system bug? Can anybody help please.
Regards,
Priya
Lotus Notes is more than 20 years old, and extremely well-tested. It is very unlikely that you have found a "system bug". There are any number of possible problems here, and you need to carefully rule them out until you find the actual problem.
The first thing you should do is take the #IsError out of the formula (temporarily). By having it there, you are suppressing a potentially useful error message. Ok... admittedly the error messages are usually not that helpful, but sometimes they are. If you don't want to take it out of your formula, just add another computed-for-display field with just the #DbLoookup -- and follow Ken's advice about hard-coding everything.
Then review all of the following:
Is "mast\staff.nsf" the correct path for the database?
Do you have access to the database?
Is "ByApplicant" the correct name for the view? (Spelling errors happen!)
Do you have access to the view?
Do you have access to the documents in the view?
As Ken mentioned, is the first column in the ByApplicant view sorted?
Is the name value you are passing for Applicant in the exact same format that appears in the view column? (I.e, if it appears in abbreviated form in the view column, make sure that you are passing it to #DbLookup in abbreviated format.)
Does the second column of the view contain the value that you are trying to read? (Check out the rules for counting columns in the documentation for #DbLookup.)
A few thoughts:
The ByApplicant view needs to have its first column sorted alphabetically and that column should be the list of applicant names you are matching on
Try hard coding the value for applicant in the #DBLookup to see if it works, and to rule it out as the problem.
This does not work on the web, only on the client (I believe)
I have a Person field in my custom list. I want to have a view that will show multiple fields from that Person instead of the one I had to choose when creating the Person column.
So basically I want to have one column for Person and then in the view see Name, title, email, phone. All of those are valid choices but I can only pick one right now.
I really want to avoid typing in the username lookup for each column I choose to display.
This is SP 2007
It sounds like you need to create a custom fieldtype (with a fieldcontrol) that inherits from the userfield but in viewmode renders out the different columns you need. Is that something along the lines you are looking for?
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/nicksevens/archive/2007/08/31/create-custom-field-types-for-sharepoint.aspx
Note: This link is broken
You probably want a Computed Field. Note that this is not a Calculated Column. A Computed Field is what is used to display the same data is different ways. In SharePoint there is a Title field, but there is also a "Title (linked to item with edit menu)" computed field as well as a "Title (linked to item)" computed field.
See midway down this link for more details. I'm not sure if it will have all of the power that you need, but if it does it is almost certainly what you are looking for if you don't mind getting into the Schema XML file a little.
Could you use a DataView web part for this? If it's just a question of viewing the data that might be suitable.
Came across this thread and thought I'd add a tip. This suggestion is clearly not for every use case, but may work well in situations where you're managing a list rather than allowing manual inputs (verified to work with SP 2013):
Create a spreadsheet with columns to match your SharePoint list that contains multiple profile fields. (for example: name, phone number, email address)
In the spreadsheet, enter the same email address in all of the person/group field types in that row. (e.g., boss#company.com, boss#company.com, boss#company.com)
Select and copy the row(s) you wish to transfer to SharePoint.
In SharePoint, change the list view to "Quick Edit" and paste the row(s) into the grid.
SharePoint will process each field and convert the email address to the profile value you selected during the list setup.