Hi all,
This has happened before but is now increasing in numbers for me.
I have a database with lots of views, this database is also the jumping point to other databases that contain common data.
Here is the problem. I have a nice pretty navigator ( using an outline with some hide when type stuff ) that they use. But… when folks start bookmarking the views individually they lose the navigator. Once they learn they can drag from the window bar to the bookmark bar, it’s all over! I’ve even had to delete their bookmark files because when I try to open the database using File-Database-Open it opens to the Folders Navigator and not the one I’ve specified.
Any ideas how I can handle this to force the view to appear with the Outline. I know that there is a web setting to force a view to appear in a frameset when viewing with a browser. Any clue if there is the same for a Notes Client? I’d rather not have to create a form for each view with an embedded outline…
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ron
Subject: Being killed by Bookmarks - HELP!
Get IBM to fix this annoying bug. It’s been there since 5.x!!
Or, copy their workaround for the same problem. Have you noticed how the Notes 6 databases that come with Domino have this white border around them now? Put your entire app within a frameset. So if your app consists of a frameset called HOME and it has two columns, one for navigation, one for content, create a new frameset called MAIN that is just one column (one frame) and specify the frameset HOME as it’s content. You’ll have a frameset called MAIN containing the frameset called HOME. Specify MAIN as the startup frameset in the database properties. The bookmarks users make to it should now work and show the database as you intended it (well, almost - I guess you did not originally intend to have two framesets). But, at least your navigation won’t be lost.
Look at the included Domino 6 templates (like discussion db for example) to see how IBM did it.
Subject: RE: Being killed by Bookmarks - HELP!
It’s not clear to me that you would need to nest framesets all those levels deep to do this. What fails to work if you just have one frameset?