I have a form with a rich text field Body. Users can access this rich text field via the Lotus Notes client, or via the browser (with Java applet). If I create a document in the Lotus Notes client with a doc link in the rich text field, then go ahead and edit the same document via my browser, the doc link loses its image (red X) in the Lotus Notes client and its url changes completely, making it inoperable in Lotus Notes (still works fine on web). On the web I save the document using _getEditAppletData() and form.submit() and my WQS agent doesn’t do anything fancy.
Basically, after saving the document on the web, when you look at it via Lotus Notes, the doc link gets transformed into a broken image with a URL hotspot pointing to the relative path of the document (which works on the web, but not in Notes!).
Any tips? This holds true for db and view links, as well.
Subject: Doc link loses image and ‘breaks’ once edited via rich text field on the web
Just one of the many, many fun things about editing rich text on the web. I can only give you my completely biased suggestion, but I think you should take a look at our CoexEdit product, as it is designed to solve this and many other deficiencies in web editing. It is a third party product, but I think your company would find it worthwhile. In this particular case, CoexEdit will identify the doclinks, view links and db links and convert them properly to HTML when web editing and convert them back to proper doclinks, viewlinks and db links when editing in Notes. No scripts or anything, just a plug in for the Domino server and some modifications to enable the web editor.