Forcing Editing mode with an action?

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Hello,

I have a field named “Printed” that I want to set to “1” if the document has been printed. The problem is that when the user clicks on the “Print” button the document is usually opened for reading and the “Printed” field isn’t set to “1”. Is there any way to set a field/flag without being in editing mode or can I do the following with a button:

  1. Force Editing Mode

  2. Set Field “Printed” to “1”

  3. Save the Document

  4. Force Reading Mode

  5. Print the Document

Thanks in advance

Regards

Frank

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Subject: Forcing Editing mode with an action?

You might try some LotusScript under the button

uidoc.EditMode=true

uidoc.FieldSettext(“Printed”,“1”)

uidoc.EditMode=False

uidoc.Print(whatever)

the user will see a little flicker, but it will work.

if its not important for the field to be set on the uidoc then try getting a handle on the backend document by using the Document property of the uidoc…

set doc = uidoc.Document

doc.Printed(0)=“1”

doc.save true,true

uidoc.Print(whatever)

you won’t get the flicker in this case

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Subject: RE: Forcing Editing mode with an action?

Hi Robert and thanks. =)

Unfortunately I don’t know how to do LotusScript so I’m stuck with @-commands and @-functions at the moment. Maybe I’ll solve the problem with the help of a profile document instead. =)

Thanks once again!

Regards

Frank