I am working on a DXL import and am having problems with the element and its .
Although the Notes UI will allow me to use an image from another database, and the help states that we can use the ‘database’ property to point back to what we want, the image doesn’t appear.
If I create a element, then I can use the ‘database’ property and get the results I want. I just can’t use this as a cell background.
When I create a dummy document with an image from another database, then use the DXL Exporter to review my code, the ‘database’ property is never set. (This works for pictures though.)
I think this is just a Notes bug. Any workarounds?
Subject: cellbackground and imageref ‘database’ property
It’s not necessarily a “bug”, per se. DXL is not quite feature-complete. While it is a tremendously powerful tool, it cannot yet do everything that you might be able to do if your were using, say, the C API. That being said, not everything that one can do in the client is exposed (at least in a documented way) in the C API either. You may be fighting with something that just can’t be beaten with the weapons you have in hand, Eric.
If you really need to play full-tilt with Rich Text, then please do yourself a favour and check out Ben’s Midas Rich Text LSX. The C API by itself is not a lot of fun to play with (okay, it IS fun, but from a geek perspective, and many times you’ll find that the players all die before the goal is reached), and the Midas LotusScript Extension brokers all of the niggling CD record details for you.
Of course, you can download the C API toolkit and get Normunds Kalnberzins’ excellent “LotusScript to Lotus C API Programming Guide” ( http://www.ls2capi.com/ ) and do the work yourself, but if Rich Text is you goal, you’ll probably find a tool like Midas more cost-effective in the long run.