Hello all, I have an odd question for you if you have time to ponder something and want to make your eyes cross.
We are using the “SendString” command to enter a computed search query string into the “Search in View” text field so a View Search is performed. The query string is created based upon the options a user selects from a form, used as a dialog.
To be honest it works really well and we have not had any problems with it, until now.
PROBLEM: For some reason, users from our Canadian branch appear to NOT have the query string automatically entered into the text field, if they are using a specific US Branch server copy.
1) If they use the local Canadian server copy, it works.
2) If they use a DIFFERENT US server copy it also seems to work.
3) Oddly enough, the US people that use the Server Copy, that fails for Canadan users, DO NOT have any issues.
The Canadian Users have Notes 7, but we tested in both 6 and 7 and can’t seem to make it fail. When I run the code from their systems in debug mode, it appears to work. But once out of the Debuger it fails again.
I rebuilt the index and recompiled the code and nothing seems to fix it. Is there something I’m missing? Some kind of Server Permission possibly that could lock that down?
It smells like a timing issue of some kind, but that doesn’t make sense. I’d assume it would be slower across the network rather than using the local server copy which does work.
Any Ideas would be most appreciated.
I know one idea is to simply say “use a server that works” but they have qualms about replication issues and are worried they won’t have the latest info. Besides that, I don’t like having code that should work for everyone but doesn’t without knowing why it doesn’t work.
Here is the example code that seems to not fuction. The code previous to this was simply to get the docProfile, a back end user profile document, NOT a Profile Profile doc just a normal notes doc called a “profile”, that holds the query and selected options.
strQuery = docProfile.Query(0) ’ <===We get the Query String here, I added a print earlier to see what it got back and it passed back the data as expected, but failed at the next line…
SendString strQuery ’ <=== here is where we “type” the query into the field
PressKey VK_RETURN ’ <=== the “user” then presses return so the search is carried out.
Thanks for your time,
- Nathan
Still no idea why this doesn’t work on this one server.
