I am wanting to display views on our intranet site. I don’t want the title of the view or the words expand, colapse, previous, next and search to show up. I just want the content in the view to show up. How can I get ride of these unnecessary things from showing up over the web? Thanks!
Subject: Newbie question
Search the Domino Designer helpfile for a topic entitled “Designing an form as a view or navigator template”. Once you’ve set up a template form for a view, it will turn off the Web view features that you mention.
Cheers,
- Mike
Subject: RE: Newbie question
I may be dumb but I cannot figure out how to do this. Sorry!
Subject: RE: Newbie question
Not to be condescending, but you need at the very least a decent intro to Lotus Notes development course.
That’ll get you started creating forms, pages, etc.
If you can figure out how to create forms using embedded views, you’ll be able to get the view templates to work for you. It’s all in the naming convention of the form.
- Matt
Subject: RE: Newbie question
Open Designer help, click on Search button, type in $$viewtemplate and you should get to the document.
You create a form with a field called $$ViewBody to control the display of the view.
If your view is called myView, the form name must be $$ViewTemplate for myView. That’s the basics of it.
Subject: RE: Newbie question
If you don’t mind, I’d like to suggest using something other then $$ViewBody, like Create → Embedded Element → View…
If you use a $$ViewBody field (the only option in R4.x), then you need to rely on some combination of the server defaults and the URL to control view display. With a “proper” embedded view, you get a lot more control over almost every aspect, from the number of documents to dosplay to header and selection margin settings – even to the point of using a “hidden” RestrictToCategory. The URL options are still there, but they don’t need to be exposed to the user.
Subject: Newbie question
“How can I get ride of these unnecessary things from showing up over the web?”
These are not unnecessary things per se, they just might be for your purposes. Yes, out of the box Notes Views are horrible to look at and are performance dogs, but you have a lot of options, especially those posted in the other responses.
“I don’t want the title of the view”
Then how will the user know what they are looking at?
“or the words expand, colapse, previous, next and search to show up. I just want the content in the view to show up.”
Do you know how to display all of the contents of the view without using these functions? If not, I suggest you use them. Customization is the key.
I suggest you download the IBM redbook “Domino Designer 6: A Developer’s Handbook” at
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246854.html?Open
or buy “Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible” by Rocky Oliver and Brian Benz at
(And no, I am not Rocky or Brian).
Because you work in the Health Care Industry in the US, I cannot recommend/stress strongly enough that you get as much training in Notes Development and Administration as possible so that you do not unintentionally cause a HIPAA violation for your company. You do not want to be the “shot heard round the world”.