Authors field problem X2!

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I “fixed” a problem that ended up creating another problem. The initial problem was a user was not allowed to edit a document where his name was in an Authors field. I’ve run into this before: Because the Authors field is set via LotusScript, you must set ‘IsAuthors’ to True. To that end, I added the following:

Dim AuthorItem As NotesItem

Set AuthorItem = notesDocument.GetFirstItem( “AcctMgr” ) (‘AcctMgr’ is an Authors field)

AuthorItem.IsAuthors = True

However, this has created a new problem:

In the same script, the user has selected a Contact doument and using the UIDoc.FieldSetText method, I populate 12 fields including the ‘AcctMgr’ field. When the code executes:

AuthorItem.IsAuthors = True

The other 11 fields become empty; the ‘AcctMgr’ field stays populated. I KNOW I’ve used the ‘IsAuthors’ before and have never had it react like this. What am I not seeing??

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: Authors field problem X2!!

It looks like you’re mixing front-end classes and back-end classes. That’s a no-no.

Use the notesitem classes to set that UNID, or use front-end (fieldsettext) to set the names (if it’s an authors field, it’ll save as authors even though you are using script).