I am attempting to inherit values from doc created with form “A” into doc created with form “B”. Form “B” resides in a different database than form “A” and the form property “Formulas inherit values from selected document” is enabled and fields are set to computed to the values of the parent docs field name.
Inheritance works fine in the Notes client but values do not pass to the new docs created in the web browser. Is it possible that inheritance does not work on the web when creating docs in another database or am I just doing something foolish?
Subject: Inheriting field values
You are not going to be able to simple use inheritance from one db to the next on the web. If you only need to populate a minimum number of fields I suggest using the QueryString and parsing out your values. If it is a lot of data then you will want to use cookies or use an agent to create the new document.
HTH
Subject: RE: Inheriting field values
Thanks Mark…
I’ll try the query string, it is only a few values.
Subject: Inheriting field values
What do you gonna try?
You do have Notes documents being displayed in a web browser, right? And then you want to create (in the browser) a new document inheriting fields from this last document?
No, that doesn’t work on the web. Because you don’t have any “relation” from the existing to the new document. You have to code that funtionality on the web. This inheritance thing is Notes specific.
One possible solution is to hand over the UNID of the existing document, get this document (just use the “0” view of your database), and read field after field you want to hand over.
BTW, when using inheritance of field values, the fields on the form inheriting the value (the retrieving form) doesn’t have to be computed.