I am working on coexistence between Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes.
Outlook Items = Notes Documents
I am adding context menu’s in Outlook where a user clicks any Item in MS Outlook would display a “Open Document” option. I have everything working to the point where I need to display the document in Lotus Notes.
I can open Notes databases through COM, got to a view and highlight a document. But I cannot figure out a way to open the document through COM.
The code below shows how I’m doing this and it errors out at NotesUIWorkspace.EditDocument(LNdoc) line.
I tried returning to a NotesUIDocument, that errors out, I tried all combinations of input parameters to EditDocument(boolvalue, doc, boolvalue).
Is there an alternative solution to open a document through com?
Public Sub OpenLNDatabase(servername As String, dbname As String, docID As String, docKey As String)
Dim ws As Object '(NotesUIWorkSpace)
Dim cLotusNotes As New clsLotusNotes
Dim LNDb As NotesDatabase
Dim LNdoc as NotesDocument
Dim LNSession as new NotesSession
If (servername = "" Or dbname = "") Then
MsgBox "I am not configured to open this Lotus Notes database. Please contact support", vbCritical, Title
Exit Sub
End If
Set LNSession = New NotesSession
Call cLotusNotes.session.Initialize
Set ws = CreateObject("Notes.NotesUIWorkspace")
Set LNDb = LNSession.GetDatabase(servername, dbname)
If (docID = "" And docKey = "") Then
'THIS WORKS
Call ws.OpenDatabase(servername, dbname, "", "", "")
Else
'open document in database by docuid
If (docID <> "") Then
Set LNDoc = LNDb.GetDocumentByUNID(docID) 'works
Call ws.EDITDOCUMENT(LNDoc) 'automation error
Else
If (docKey <> "") Then
'search a view for a field value
'to get a handle to a notesdocument.
End If
End If
End If
Set ws = Nothing
End Sub