Is there a chance to get the name of the current frame (in LS)?

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Hi designers,

this is a 2nd posting - the first was before xmas … and everybody has “more important” things to do than reading iris forum… :wink:

I am programming sth for a welcome page:

Open a db’s view in a 2 column frameset.

that view “refreshes” to a form … in the same frame.

To achieve this I have to know the frame name of the frame the view is in:

(snippet from the view’s postopen):

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Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace

Dim db As NotesDatabase

Dim session As New NotesSession

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

workspace.SetTargetFrame(“split2main”) '— this is the (hardcoded) frame name, got it from the bookmark ntf

Call workspace.ComposeDocument(db.Server, db.FilePath, “HVTeaser”,False )

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I really do not like to place the SetTargetFrame hardcoded there - but I do not find a way to get the “current frame name”. Or does Notes have a reserved word for TargetFrame=Sameframe, like the “_self” for the browser?

Thanks for any help in advance,

Uwe

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Subject: RE: is there a chance to get the name of the current frame (in LS)?

If _self doesn’t work, I don’t think there is a way. However, I don’t understand why you want to display a view and then immediately navigate away from it. Why not just design the frameset to point to the form?

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Subject: RE: is there a chance to get the name of the current frame (in LS)?

Hi Andre,

thanks for your quick reply

I used this way because created a “company welcome page” and there I only have the choice of application views/folders.

I could open the form in that welcome page Frameset via a notesURL - but my tests were quite disappointing, notes hangs, crashes …

Or do you see another way to deploy a company welcome page (inbox plus intranet news)?

Uwe

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Subject: RE: is there a chance to get the name of the current frame (in LS)?

I would’ve thought a Notes URL would work just fine, too. I don’t know of any crashes that would be caused by that. Of course, it could be there’s something on your form that’s causing a problem when you combine it with opening at the same time as the frameset, but I don’t know offhand what that might be.

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Subject: it is not a frameset in a database …

… but a Welcome Page Frameset. Created with the admin in a companybookmark.nsf and distributed via Policy Desktop setting.

It is identical to the setup of a personal welcome page, using frames. There I can only choose views/folders (or urls).

Uwe