2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

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My application is a Notes form with an extended table design. Many of the columns of the table may be empty/blank, and I want to suppress the display of the column if indeed it is blank. Since using a Notes table format will not allow this, I’ve rewritten the table in HTML with computed fields and/or computed text inside the HTML pass-through, and for whatever reason, the computations do NOT recompute when one of the factors is changed or the document is refreshed (Notes client - this is not a web app). Has anyone else observed this behavior? Is there any way of bypassing it? It’s really annoying.

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Subject: 2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

I’ve run into this before and it usually caused by the field being pass thru html. You make a change no where near the field and somehow the field is placed as pass thru. If you highlight the field and remove the pass thru, it usually works for me.

HTH

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Subject: RE: 2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

David,

Thanks for your reply. I did try this, with the same unsatisfactory result - the field or computed text computes only when the form is loaded and never after that. But I appreciate the reply!

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Subject: RE: 2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

Yes, rendering HTML in the Notes client only happens when the document is opened. That’s how it has always worked. It would be helpful for developers if it were otherwise. In the meantime, you can create your table by creating an HTML file and then importing it into a rich text field (field Exiting event can prevent manual editing).

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Subject: 2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

I have been doing a bunch of HTML in a Notes Client application. I was able to pass the values from the HTML field to the notes field on saves, but the fields behaved real quirky and not stable.

Also, the basic HTML tags work, but many DHTML tags do not. And when nesting html tables, be careful on the printing. I have not been able to set the width of the cells on the fly.

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Subject: RE: 2nd try: Computed values not working inside HTML

Eric,

Thanks for the info. I’m not doing anything fancy with the HTML other than rendering the table and formatting the background colors and fonts and such - no javascript within it at all. It’s just so frustrating not to be able to do something so elementary as to apply hide when formulas to an entire column using native Notes language, then to find that Notes’ implementation of HTML on the client side is so unstable that computations simply don’t work.