After migrating our mail application to Notes 851 we are finding that if we select an outline entry that has children entries it will expand. This is not the behaviour in the current version of our template, based on an older release of the Lotus Notes Mail Template.
Note: We are trying to use the Java Component.
IMPACT: SEVERE
This problem is preventing us from successfully migrating to Notes 8.51
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We would like to better understand what’s happening and learn if there is a workaround that will allow us to enable the current functionality to work in the R8.51 mail template.
DETAILS:
During our code migration from a Mail template based on R6.5 to the Vanilla Lotus Notes Mail Template (R8.51) we have encountered a serious issue with the Mail Navigator (Outline).
Current Functionality
In the current version of our application, is based on a pre-Notes 8 mail template, we have an outline entry (E-Mail) that, on selection, opens the user’s Inbox:
- This is how the Outline appears, notice that the E-Mail entry can be expanded to display other E-Mail related entries
If you could see it, it is an outline with an entry that has a twistie next to it. Clicking on the entry alone (not the twistie) will ioen the $InBox named element. Clicking on the Twistie will explain the items below the outlne element. This is all very basic Notes programming - nothing unusual here. (Sorry, DW won’t let me post screen shot)
- In the Outline design element we have this entry set so that it also opens the ($Inbox) named element when it is selected
(Sorry, DW won’t let me post screen shot)
- In the previous version of our application - one we have been using for years (pre-R8.51) clicking on this entry correctly opens the user’s Inbox. This entry, when selected, does not expand, and no child entries can be seen. To see the child entries you need to click the assigned twistie.
WE ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH 8.51 CLIENT & 8.51 MAIL FILE - We are unable to make it work consistently.
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This same behaviour is not seen when we migrate our codebase to the current Lotus Notes Mail Template.
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When we select the E-Mail entry not only is the Inbox opened (that is fine) but the children entries are also visible as the tree has expanded. This was not the case with the pre-R8.51 version. We need the tree to stay collapsed unless the user specifically clicks on the twistie
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But that is the other issue. There are no twisties in the tree, and the user has to click to the whitespace to the left of the entry title where the twistie should be
Thank you for your assistance.