I need to have something that acts like a dynamic outline. Basically, I have a field that contains a list of all branches. I would like a navigation pane that corresponds to this field, so I would end up with an outline that has a list of all the branches.
Is this possible? Does this make sense? This is for the Notes client only, nothing to do with the web.
Any help would be appreciated!
Katherine
Subject: Dynamic Outline…possible?
Dynamically-rendered outlines using hide-when formulae are not very usable, because the outlien needs to be “refreshed” whenever a condition for the formula changes. So, as Graham suggests, outlines rendered in code would probably be your best bet: again, not great for the “on the fly” stuff, but that may not be your goal anyway.
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Subject: RE: Dynamic Outline…possible?
Cheers for the suggestions, though I don’t think it will solve my problem, I’m not sure if its even possible.
Essentially I need to be able to have a set of views for each branch but the branch is selected from a drop-down list that frequently changes values.
I can’t think of a way of doing this without having a set of views created for each branch which is all hardcoded.
Thanks for the help anyway,
Katherine
Subject: RE: Dynamic Outline…possible?
What about making each branch’s list of dependent views a separate outline on a separate page, and switching pages? As long as the list of branches isn’t volatile, this might do.
Subject: RE: Dynamic Outline…possible?
I know it is an old thread, but you could always do something like this as an action on the outline entry…But, instead of a org unit, use your branch field…
CurrOU1:=@Name([OU1];@UserName);
Location:=@If(
CurrOU1="NewYork"; "New York" ;
CurrOU1
);
ViewToOpen:=“My Office\” + Location + “\Calls\All By Date”;
@Command([ViewChange]; ViewToOpen)
Subject: Dynamic Outline…possible?
Outlines are programable through Lotus Script objects - so yes, you can do this.
Look into the NotesOutline classes