Button to create calendar entry in another mail db

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I am trying to design a button which will create a new calendar entry in the mail file of the person who clicks it. The button will reside in a form within another database.

The problem is, most of the code I see for this sort of lotusscript assumes the button would reside in the actual user’s mail db, and so they use the following to set the db:

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

The remainder of the script basically takes into account that this variable is set.

Is there some code I can substitute for this, to set the db variable, but so that it is pointing to the mail file of the active user?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Subject: Button to create calendar entry in another mail db

You can get the user’s mail file information from the notes.ini

Something like this:

envstring = sess.GetEnvironmentString( “Location”, True )

location = Left$( envstring, Instr( envstring, “,” ) - 1 )

mailserver = sess.GetEnvironmentString( “MailServer”, True )

mailfile = sess.GetEnvironmentString( “MailFile”, True )

set db = new NotesDatabase( mailserver, mailfile )

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Subject: RE: Button to create calendar entry in another mail db

Hi Martha, thanks for that code! I added it to my script, and we’re making some progress. Only thing I don’t understand is:

location = Left$( envstring, Instr( envstring, “,” ) - 1 )

I think this is setting the name of the current location document? But how/where is that used? I am using a local replica of my mail, and my location document points to that local file. When I click the button (after adding your code), I get the following message:

Database SERVERNAME!!mymail.nsf has not been opened yet

(SERVERNAME above will show the actual name of my mail server)

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Subject: RE: Button to create calendar entry in another mail db

OpenMail method

Assigns a database to the current user’s mail database and opens that database.

Defined in

NotesDatabase

Syntax

Call notesDatabase.OpenMail

Usage

If the script runs on a workstation, OpenMail finds the current user’s mail server and database in the notes.ini (or Notes Preferences) file.

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Subject: RE: Button to create calendar entry in another mail db

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried using this before I posted, but the problem I ran into was that I needed to set a variable which defines the actual mail file. If there were an easy command like session.CurrentDatabase which could be used to grab the mail file location/details of the active user, that would be very useful.