Looking for an example of Field Variables - Temp Variables in real life so that I can understand this feature.
I am doing a course on Lotus Domino Development so please explain.
Regards,
Ammad
Subject: Re: Lotus Domino Designer 8 (Field Variables - Temp Variables)
Perhaps you are refering “Field Variables” to a variable whos value is derived from a field?
Anyway, the difference between the two is that “Field based variables” like I said are variables whos value came from a field of a document and they are permanent and will exist even if the executing program is terminated, you may call variables whos value didn’t came from a field as “Temp based Variables”, they a temporary and once the program stop executing their existence will be gone.
In real life, you may consider “Field Based Variables” as the information you written in a paper, so even as time pass when you already forgotten what was the information, you’ll have only to read what was you written in the paper to get the information again. “Temp Variables” is a like an information you only memorized, so as time pass by and you already forgotten what was the information then there is no more easy way to retrieve the information.
Subject: Not exactly sure what you are looking for
however you might look for
a) computed for Display only fields (this ones never get saved to disk)
b) @Environment and the related ones
a) is in Memory only as part of a single document
b) is in in Notes.ini only and survives even new start of client (and most people would proably considder it bad practise to use them if there is an other option).
c) You might be able to work with a Gobal in Lotus Script, too -Never did so.
Subject: Is this a question?
Looking for an example of Field Variables - Temp Variables in real life so that I can understand this feature.
I’m not sure that temp variables are a “feature”. temp variables are just as they as named - a temporary variable.
they are the same in any platform