I am creating some button that when pressed will take uses to different db’s. i.e. - our company bulletin board, or a department bulleting board. What we have in place now is that when a new document is posted to one of these boards, an email goes out the next day saying that there are new documents out there. Well, people don’t like all them emails and are wondering if it is possible to have some sort of notification next to the button when there are new documents posted to them and not get the emails anymore.
Does anyone know how this can be done? I have a table set up with the button and would create a new column for these “new document” identifiers, but am not sure how to go about coding it.
Just like the stars in the email Inbox? That’s a standard property in Notes - look in Designer help under “Unread Marks”. You’ll want to have this property active.
Thanks for the quick response Brian. Yes it would be like the stars in your email. This is what I have going on:
The buttons link to different databases. When there is a new document in one of them databases, I would like a star to appear in the empty column next to the appropriate button. When there aren’t any unread documents, there shouldn’t be a star.
Does it have to be a star? Given what you have, I’d suggest creating a view that shows only new or unread and embed the view there. That way, if it’s empty, they will see that, or they will see what they haven’t read, basically like a a RSS feed. Otherwise, you’re going to have to build something that goes and sees if there is a new document(s) and change the icon displayed on the page you have. That would be (to my mind) a waste of resources, since it would have to check periodically just for th at.
Hmm, you know, you could create a view with the unread, and just show that column with the unread star, and set the embedded view to just one column wide - so it would only show the star.
Thanks for the suggestions Brian. I will give it a try once and see what it looks like. I don’t think I’ll like the results but you never know. I was hoping there would’ve been an easier way to just have a “New” icon show up if there are unread or new documents.