Copying Parent Folders and their Child Folders

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Hi Folks…

I currently have a group of folders that I want to be able to copy…e.g.

2003

2003 - January

  Answered

     ANZ

     ASEAN

     GCG

     Japan

     Korea

  Escalated

  RFA's Etc

2003 - February

  Answered

     ANZ

     ASEAN

     GCG

     Japan

     Korea

  Escalated

  RFA's Etc

… And so on for the whole year

Now instead of having to go thru the exercise of manually creating each individual folder for 2004, is there a way that I can create the same structure of folders as above for next year.??

regards

Julius

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Subject: RE: Copying Parent Folders and their Child Folders

You could certainly write LotusScript code, use the NotesDatabase.Views property, search for folders (folders are just a specialized type of view) with names that start with a year number, and copy them to create a new folder.

However, I wonder about this design. The sort of thing you’re doing here is generally more easily done with a categorized view; that way your new headings are added automatically and nobody needs to drag things around to manually classify them. Of course, that depends on having enough information in the document to do the classifying automatically, but any missing information could also be provided by the user editing the document. It’s also far easier to find documents when you have just one view to search in. Suppose you wanted find a document containing a certain word, but you don’t know what folder it’s in. Do you use a full-text search in each folder?