Field has value from view, is blank when doc is opened

Has anybody ever seen this? The value in this field displays in the view but not when the document is opened.

It’s a Shared Combobox, Editable field. The Use Formula For Choices value is:

“” : AllSalesReps

AllSalesReps is set when the document is opened to a list of salespeople.

The Default formula is the name of another, computed field, which value is @Name([CN]; @UserName). There is no Translation or Validation.

'Any ideas? 'Need any more info to make a suggestions?

Subject: Had something similar

I had imported some records from Excel; they showed in the view, but in the form, no. In my case, the problem was the field name differed; I really did not find a workaround (aside from running an agent against all the documents and that was more work than it was worth because this is simply a lookup archive database and rarely used). I just decided if the user needed to see the info – just look at the view columns and scroll right - just 1 field out of perhaps 12 that did not show in the form. I did try to use a default value in the form showing both names but that did not work for me. Good luck. Cathy

Subject: Changed Default Value just to see

and used both names separated by : as the default value - this is a multi-value, text field. Then, it shows in the document, but not in the view … so for me it’s still a mixed bag. I even had used the same “formula” for the view but no luck … just thought I’d let you know. I’m changing back to “see it in the view, forget about opening the form”. Hope someone else knows the answer! Cathy

Subject: Thanks very much for the responses

This app was written for the web and it seems to work OK there but not at all in the Notes client. Unfortunately I have to do data manipulation on the Notes client side and that’s where I’m running into this trouble.

Thanks again!