In the sample application, you want to be able to access documents by clicking on their row in the view.

A view reports document content and provides access to the documents.

Incorporating a Domino® view into an XPage makes a good base for an application. The view can be set up to both display and access the application data.

Many LotusScript and Java developers assume that if you want to iterate through a documen response hierarchy, you have to use a view to do it. While this is often the right way to go, having extra views in a database solely for agent or program access can cause problems and consume a lot of space. ...

Useful for linking docs with the same category or keywords: Add a lookup view, which lists all documents by keyword and in a second column the UNIDs. Add a second lookup view, which lists all docs by UNID and in a second column the titles, which should be displayed in the links. In the documents ...

Here is an example of the picklist view for an Xpage. Notice the use of client and serverside script. instructions can be found here one attachment is encrypted and i cant seem to delete it, use the other, thanks

Many factors must align to get a key-based lookup to work. If yours is not working, this document lists the things you should check. This is primarily about @DbLookup, but any key-based view lookup, such as NotesView.GetAllDocumentsByKey, has essentially the same set of possible issues. Some of ...

It's pretty easy in a Notes rich view to display a standard icon in a column. You just need to check a check box in the info box, and set a formula for the column that returns an integer that points to one of a number of standard columns. This even works to display an icon if used in the standard ...

Every document and every design element in a Notes NSF or NTF file, is stored as a "note" -- a record containing header information (such as the Last Modified date-time) and "items" which have a name and value. For a document note, items usually correspond to fields on a form. Notes views, by ...

One hidden gem in Domino 8.5 is the addition of a new view property available to views served through the classic web server. For security reasons, and due to the dynamic nature of many views, we cannot automatically allow web robots/crawlers to index Domino data. To prevent such indexing, the ...

Notes developers will be familiar with the various options available in basic Notes Views for presenting data stored in several Documents in a structured and tabular fashion. Notes Views also provide two mechanisms to display data that does not come directly from one of the fields defined in a ...

Unschedule View Index Updating In Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino Designer, when designing a View, the Design View Attributes dialog box contains an "Index Options" button. Refresh Frequency Options The following four refresh frequency options are available when opening a view: 1. "Auto, after first ...

IBM recommends that you use an outline for navigating between views and folders, conforming to the following rules: The name of the application is at the top, left-justified (in left-to-right languages), and 4 points larger than the text and bold. The server replica is next (also left-justified). ...

The purpose of the action bar is to provide quick access to commonly used actions/commands. Commands on the action bar must be repeats of items on the Menu bar (or something in a dialog box that you get to from a menu item). Views and documents (forms) can have an action bar if the designer thinks ...

Provide context menus on objects. IBM also recommends that you also include a menu item in a menu on the menu bar for every context menu that you create. Lotus Notes core provides a standard set of context menu items for different interface objects, such as a view or a document). IBM recommends ...

If you are creating new icons for the toolbar, action bar, stationery, letterhead, or any other part of the client, you must adhere to the following Icon style guidelines (see figure 1): NOTE: These are general guidelines for a 16x16px icon; larger icons may require larger shadows, inner glow, and ...

You can give existing (or new) Lotus Notes applications (databases) a Notes 8 look by customizing the action bar, Outline view, and column headers, as shown in figures 1, 3, and 4, respectively. Figure 1. Ideal Action bar visual style If you are using Domino Designer to create your Action bar, you ...

The visual style for Lotus Notes 8 is defined in several different .css files (one of which is packaged in a .jar file). The two most important are Global.css and Notes.css. There is also an Activites.css for the Activities sidebar plug-in. Global.css defines the following, as illustrated in ...