Lotus notes, edit one form from another - lotus-notes

Basically what I want to do is create a form whilst within another form and pass values from the earlier form to the second. Complicated I know but here is what I got.
#Do(#Command([Compose];"LPK"); #SetField("PR_Make"; PR_Make))
The fields in both forms have the same name and this code is called when first document is attempted to be saved.
I think instead of editing the field on the second form it just saves a field as itself instead. Any help appreciated.

The best and common way is to enable form property "Formulas inherit values from selected document" in second form "LPK".
Add a default value formula to second form's fields you want to inherit and put just the name of field itself in. For your example default value formula it would be
PR_Make
Make sure you save document first and then create the new document.

Knut Hermann's answwer is the 'standard' way of achieving such things but there are other methods- eg you can use environment variables ..
Something like:
#Environment("PR_Make") := PR_Make;
#Command([Compose];"LPK");
Then set the default value for PR_Make in your new form as ..
#Environment("PR_Make")
FYI Environment variables are written to the user's Notes.ini file and so remain even after Notes has been closed and re-opened. #Environemt doens't work too well with Web applications as it uses the server's notes.ini.
An alternative would be to use profile documents:
#SetProfileField( "PRDefaults"; "PR_Make" ; PR_Make;#Username);
#Command([Compose];"LPK");
.. in the default field for PR_Make on new form :
#GetProfileField( "PRDefaults"; "PR_Make"; #Username);
Profile documents are stored as a kind of hidden document in the Notes database and persist with the database. The last parameter sets a further subdivision by username so each user gets their own profile doc - a bit like a personal profile for "PRDefaults". You can miss this last parameter #Username out, to have one profile doc per database but there's a risk of two people trying to use it at the same time and clashing.
Profile docs also work with web applications.

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why are field values being erased with an xPage full update (on another field)?

I have an xPage that is behaving very oddly. (if xPages get corrupt, I think this one might be) Tell me what you think:
I have editable fields with onChange events that take the value of the field (a company name) and looks into the database to see if the company already exists. If it does not, a field called "isNew" is set to "y". BUT the next time a Full Update is performed, from another field or button, my "isNew" field (or all of them) are erased! Why on earth would a full update erase a totally different field?
Do I need to just recreate this xPage?
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Ok, here's the onChange event on the editable field that sets the flag:
var c = currentDocument.getItemValueString("company");
var id = #DbLookup("","AD",tc,11); // this view column gets the doc ID
if (id==null || id==""){
#SetField("isNew","y")
}
This field is being set properly - I use a computed field to display it. But the next full update (button, field, whatever) will erase the "isNew" field.
I think your problem is caused by the data sources you have on your page and how you save them.
Maybe you have data sources that gets binded from the url that should not be.
Are you using data sources within a repeat or view panel? If so, make sure you are only saving the correct data source
JSF (and thus XPages) works best when keeping MVC in mind. So you never manipulate a component, but keep that component bound to a model, like a data source or a scope. This way code doesn't get into each other's way.
A refresh of a page computes the whole tree, not just the updated field, so you need to design your calls carefully.
Work directly with your data source so do this instead of #SetField():
currentDocument.setValue("isNew", "y")

Get recently read document in Lotus Notes Database

I am developing a database on Lotus Designer 8.5 environment with LotusScript and LotusFormula.
Is there any possibilities on get a list of recently opened documents (for example last five) in a Lotus Notes database ? My purpose is to provide an embedded view showing the recent documents opened by current user on the current database, which will act like some kind of history view.
Please advise
Use a folder categorized by username. Add the current document in PostOpen event to folder with document.PutInFolder(folderName) and remove the oldest document from folder with document.RemoveFromFolder(folderName)
This way you don't need to edit the documents and can show the last visited documents for a user in an embedded view.
As an alternative you can use user specific folders with option "Shared, private on first use".
I have that functionality in one of my databases.
I just added some code in the QueryOpen event of the form to store the UNID of the document in a profile document linked to the specific user. The values are stored in a multi value field, and my code removes the oldest entry when the number of entries I want to store is exceeded.
The user can actually set that number themselves in teh applications settings, 5 is default but they can make it more or less.
I built a class for this, makes it very easy to modify later, and to implement it in different forms, for different document types.
I then built a method to expose the last documents to the user, using a dropdown box as you can see below. Since you only wwant/need the five (or perhas ten) last documents, no need to use a view.

Xpages using 'flags' for different doc. structure on same xpage

My scenario:
The xpage ( document content ) has a complex structure. I have a 1st button which opens this xpage, having in the postNewDocument:
Contr.replaceItemValue("txt_codformularmain","01") // I use this field as a flag.
Now, there is another button which compose the same xpage ... but in this case, I do want the xpage to be different, in other words to have some additional / showed fields.
I could add another code at the postNewDocument, like this:
Contr.replaceItemValue("txt_codformularmain2","01")
Later on, in some views I will filter the listed documents by this 2 fields: some views will be listing the documents where txt_codformularmain=01, other views for txt_codformularmain2=01, and so on.
All the fields are on the same form element. ( I could create easily 2 different xpages, with 2 document contents, but in the form Properties at onOpen and onWebAccess settings, I can add only one xpage )
But, I think it isn't the best approach for this. Because in both cases, postNewDocument takes place, and both fields are having the value 01.
In classic lotus notes programming, I had used only one field ( flag ) and for every different button, inside the button's code I just changed the field value: 01, 02, and so on, before the newDocument had been composed.
Should I use another/ a better approach?
I might go for creating a new form with the fields needed there, and creating a new XPage binded to that form...
dominoDocument.isNewNote() will tell you if it's a new document or not. You can compute visibility based on that.
If it's based on a field value, then again set the visibility based on what the value should be for the panel to be visible - instead of getComponent().getValue() use dominoDocument.getItemValueString() assuming it's a Text field for best practice. In the onblur event of the control that's bound to the field you're checking against, trigger a partial refresh. You will need to amend the default partial refresh settings if there is validation on the page.
Once you're comfortable with that technique, start thinking about using a dataContext to hold whether or not an area should be visible, and referencing that dataContext variable in the rendered property. The benefits of this are not only performance, but youo can give a better variable name to the dataContext to make it clearer when supporting the application what the logic is behind it being visible. For someone supporting the Notes Client app, for example, it's unclear without hunting what state "01" or "02" means. Descriptors like "newDoc", "published", etc have an advantage there.
Another method of optimisation would be to use a Dynamic Content control.
But it sounds like your XPage is going to be complex enough without adding more complexity at this stage.

Zend form: secure way store entry ID when editing?

I'm new to the Zend Framework and I have a problem to create an edit form with the Zend_Form.
My problem is that I need to store the entry ID during editing, I've seen some examples that are using a hidden form field, but a hidden field can be manipulated by a user.
So: how can I set a form field which gets populated by $form->populate($data); and is available after submiting the request but is not editabel/visible to the user in any way?
Thanks for any help!
I'm not sure if there's really a point in trying to hide the value.
Consider the following:
To display the correct editor form, you need the ID of the object that is to be edited.
Before allowing the user to edit a certain ID, you would check if the user can edit it or not.
Thus, if you put the ID in the form, it shouldn't really matter:
When you POST the edit form, you should again check that the user can still edit the ID.
If the user changes the hidden ID, it doesn't really matter. They could still go and edit the other ID by finding it on the site. (This is assuming your check didn't tell you the user does not have access)
what kind of data you wanna hide?
data should be in post or get.if you dont put your data in your form,then you will have to use GET which is less secure than POST.
If you have some data and you dont want the user to see those data,then you should not put those data in a form.you can store and retrieve hidden data using forms submitted values.lets suppose your hidden field is users password.you dont need to send password back to the client when client is editing the form.you can manipulate password in your controller according to the user`s submitted first name and last name.
If you still insist, you may wanna try encrypting data using ZF and echo ing your value and setting encrypted data into a hidden form element.
Zend_Form generates an HTML form element with the form elements you specify. So its element capabilities are narrowed to a simple HTML form.
The hidden form element is used to pass those data that the user is not supposed to enter by hand. But as you yourself said it, there is no guaranty it could not be tampered. so no security is provided by using a hidden form value.
Most of times you'd better use server side values (like stored in sessions) to reference to values that are to be protected from user.
I suggest you keep the ID in a session value, and then you could use the session key in the hidden form field. this way the user can not change the target ID. However you are not able to use the $form->populate($values) on this in one step. you would have to set the target value with other steps:
fetch data from the session
set the form element value with the fetched data

Drupal: How to add a form and perform functionality on it

I am new to Drupal and trying to get hand on it.
I am not able to find how to have the following functionality on my site. If anyone can help me out, it would be great for me.
I need to have a form that will take 2 fields one of which is supposed to be the login id(how to retrive login id?). I need to store this and display in tabular form also on a new page. Lastly I want to provide an edit form for this functionality using the same form but its use will be like whenever a person adds value in this form, it checks in Table1, if entry is not present it adds in table, else it updates the table.
Apart from this I need to store all the updations in a seperate table or something like that, so that I am able to see the history of all the changes
Eg:
ADD Form:
Fields:
- LoginID
- Phone number
Show Table Page(Tabular with the stored information)
Edit Form(same as above form):
Fields:
- LoginID
- Phone number
Now If I add my phone number to this it will get stored. Later when I try to modify my number it should update in initial table but also store the history of old and new entry in a separate table so that I can perform varies options on it.
I also dont know how to add/enable form fields in drupal. :(
Thanks
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but I think the Computed Field module might be helpful. The module allows you to define custom hooks that run when a node is saved.
If you're not creating nodes and are using something like the Webform module, you should be able to write a module to process the data.

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