I am taking Lotus’ advice and trying to move away from navigators to framesets and outlines but am finding I am unable to figure out how to perform one of the main navigation methods I am accustomed to with navigators.
I have been using
@Command( [FileOpenDBRepID]
and specifying the navigator I want to open in a separate db. Since there is not an equivalent @Command for opening to a specified frameset, I must find another way.
This must work whether user is on the network server or local replica copy. I have been able to use standard named elements to get to one or the other, but these do not automatically adjust to the appropriate server. My solution must work on either.
I have tried the new option of a formula for a named database element in outline entry:
“@ServerName!!@FileDir\callrep_R6.nsf”
This is not working. Other variations I have tried similar to this are also not working.
Can someone help? Is URL an option? This is not a web application.
Subject: Outline entry link to different db and specified frameset
I’ve used the following method to do something similar to what your talking about…
In the properties for the Outline entry, we do this:
The Frame value of “_top” will cause the new frameset to open in the existing window. If you wanted it to open in a new window, I believe you can just leave the Frame value blank. I’ve never been totally confident in my understanding of how targeting frames and windows works within the Notes client, so don’t screw me to the wall if I’m wrong about that.
Then, for the formula in the Computed Value property (under the “@” button), we entered the following:
“notes://” + Server + “/” + dbFilePath + “/ReassignTractCOT?OpenFrameset”
We get our server name from the current server, and database path from a profile document in the current database, but you could just hard code these too.
I’ll check back tomorrow on this. Let me know how things work out. Keil.
Subject: RE: Outline entry link to different db and specified frameset
I am back to this problem which I never have gotten to work. We are now upgraded to R6.5.
This code opens the correct view in the correct frame, but shows the entire view rather than just the category associated with the customer whose profile appears in another frame. The id for that customer is the string at the end of the code (0120020626075526) . The view is categorized by id numbers.
Server := @Name([CN]; @Subset(@DbName; 1));
“notes://” + Server + “/fambeta.nsf/LU_CONT2?OpenView&RestrictToCategory=0120020626075526”