For some enhancing reason, I have added some new fields in my form. It is having default value.
But the existing document is not getting updated with the new fields.
I am having a thousands of documents. I can not open, Edit and save. I tried to save the document from backend. I can not believe, that was also not working.
Is their anyway for updating documents?
Create a view action button that executes this command:
#Command[ToolsRefreshAllDocs])
If you prefer using backend classes, you need call notesDocument.ComputeWithForm( False, False ) before saving document.
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I'm new with lotus notes. Basically, I have a form. I want to create a situation where when I edit the form, that form will not be overwritten but it will automatically create a new form with an updated form. But when I open the new updated form, we can see all list of history from the old form. I can't think of any way to create it. Any suggestion would help me. Thanks!
First of all: you need to know the difference between FORM and DOCUMENT.
The FORM is the design element in designer that you create and that is used to create and modify DOCUMENTS.
A DOCUMENT is a set of item - value pairs stored in the database. The items are based on the FORM it is created with.
If I understand you correctly, you want to create a new DOCUMENT on every save but keep the old DOCUMENT at the same time. There is a function called "Version Tracking" that allows this.
Read this documentation about how to use versioning. Here is a short version:
Open the form.
Choose Design - Form Properties.
On the Form Info tab, select None or one of the following versioning methods:
New versions become responses
Prior versions become responses
New versions become siblings
I'm trying to implement a simple comment system in XPages. I have come across examples that create response documents from an existing document. The issue I'm having is when I open a new XPage and want to add a comment but I don't have an existing document because it hasn't been saved yet.
Is there a way I can create comments (response documents) on an unsaved document somehow? Or is there a different way to implement a comment system that doesn't use response documents?
Thanks for any tips.
If this is XPages then don't use a response document. Use a manual key of some sort. I prefer #Unique style keys - some people use UNIDS.
There's little to no value in using pure response document in XPages applications.
Patrick asks the key question. How can you have a "child" document if you don't first save the "parent" document.
Now of course you can save the parent and the child at the same time.
A response document need the unid of the main document for creation. If the main document is not saved you get the following exception.
Unable to create new document
NotesException: Invalid universal id
I don't know an other way to handle this problem.
Why don't you want to save the main document?
How can someone comment on something that does not exist?
I would need more details but you need to save the document. Perhaps you can move it into a different category like a draft view or something till it is ready for production?
I followed this link enabling me to setup a hotspot in a richtext field - works like charm.
http://ozinisle.blogspot.de/2010/11/lotusscript-code-to-append-hotspot-to.html
Only problem is, as the user(s) usually do(es) not have deletion rights, the document created by the import stays stored in the database. In LotusScript e.g. I can create a new temporary document and work with it, and if I'm not saving it, it just disappears at the end of the function.
Is there a similar way or parameter for DXL import which allows me to just drop the document after I got my rtitem?
Alternatively, can someone point out to me if it is possible to create only the temporary richtext item in/on a document I created as tempdoc via LotusScript?
My search on the web did not get any results and my tries to reduce the linked function always resulted in the error 4518 (which is described in the help document of "DXLImporter"); if I read the help right, the DXLImporter only supports the db as valid output (thus expecting documents being created via DXL).
I don't see a way to import DXL without creating a document.
The easiest solution is to create the temporary document in users "cache.ndk". The user has definitely the right to delete documents there. So, you'd replace the line "Set db = session.CurrentDatabase" in code you linked to with
Set db = session.Getdatabase("", "cache.ndk", false)
The rest of the code would stay the same.
As an alternative, use the more classic approach running an agent on server to delete the temporary document. Create an agent which deletes the document, set property "Run on behalf of" to someone who is allowed to delete documents in database and call the agent from your script with
agent.RunOnServer(noteID)
Scenario :- I opened the same document in different browsers(users). One user modified and saved the document. another user also modifying the same document which creates saved conflicts. for this I googled and found the link and tried.
http://dontpanic82.blogspot.in/2010/01/xpages-custom-control-that-can-help.html
(Thanks to Mr Tommy).
I included this custom control in another custom control(Form) at the end of Cc.
I am getting currentDocument not found in before render response event. I have my data source name document which is defined for full page not for panel.
Document handle is not getting in Before render response event?
Please help to me to solve this. or is there any other way to prevent saved conflicts?
Have a look at the concurrencyMode property of the document datasource.
You can for instance set it to fail in order for the document save to stop (fail) if a save conflict occurs. If you have (or add) a message control to your xpage, a save conflict error message will then appear.
If you isn't building for XPinc you could use my Document locker project on openntf.org
Document Locker on openntf.org
It works like this, when a user opens a document a< lock is added to an application scope bean. And when the user exits the document this lock is removed. if another user tried to enter the document at the same time they will be redirected to readmode.
Also, check the section in Mastering XPages 2nd Edition about document locking. That gives thorough examples for enabling the in-built Domino document locking.
Very new to Lotus designer.
I am trying to create a simple form with a field which is updated from time with additional information. I want the admin user to be able to update this information on the same form interface as the user viewing the information.
It appears I do not really understand how to get the form to display information entered into it previously.
I did Ctrl+shift view of the database and saw all the previous entries but I can not seem to get the form to display these information as well as allow me to append to them.
Kindly help.
Thanks.
Have a look at the online Domino Designer help - for instance the sections on designing forms:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc/H_ABOUT__FORMS.html
A form is used to create a new document or to edit an existing document. Since you say that you can see the previous entries, you must be creating a new document for each entry.
If you want to see and modify the contents of an existing document, you have to navigate to the document and open it for edit.
If you want the user to see a list of all the previous documents while he is creating a new one, you can add an embedded view to the form and use that to display data from the previous documents.
If you want all the information to be in a single document, then you need to stop creating new documents and just select the exiting document, open it for edit, make your changes, and re-save the document.