Problem with an embedded view on a tabbed table in a caption table

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I posted this in the Notes/Domino 8 forum but I have been told it also affects R6 and R7. I haven’t been able to test that myself yet.

I’m doing away with a 3 pane interface by using a combination of a caption table, tabbed tables, and embedded views. I have it set up so each row in the caption table equates to one of the top-level sections in a navigator, then each tab contains one of the sub-level views.

For example, if you had an out line like this:

+Trouble Tickets

|-Open

|-Closed

+Documentation

|-developerWorks Lotus

|-Wikipedia

I would flip this around like so (I hope my ASCII art doesn’t get too mangled:

|---------------------------------------

|Trouble Tickets

|---------------------------------------

| |---------|---------|

| |Open |Closed |

| |-------------------------------------

| |

|---------------------------------------

|Documentation

|---------------------------------------

| |---------------------|----------|

| |developerWorks Lotus |Wikipedia |

| |-------------------------------------

| |

The Open tab would have the Open view, the Closed tab would have the Closed view, etc.

Okay, now the problem: I have the Trouble Tickets row selected and I select either the Open or Closed tab, which displays the embedded view. That’s all peachy. Then I switch to the Documentation caption. The Trouble Tickets caption row collapses and the tabbed table disappears, but the embedded view stays front and center, blocking the Documentation caption. Nothing I have done makes it go away other than closing the form. I have recreated this a number of times, and every time I get the same results.

Now for the TRULY curious part: It works perfectly in Notes 8 Basic, as well as Notes 7.0.2 and 6.5.4. I haven’t tried it in Designer 7.x yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions here? I’ve been tearing my hair out for hours.

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Subject: problem with an embedded view on a tabbed table in a caption table

I haven’t played with Caption tables, so I doubt this can be done… But maybe it will give you an idea:

(I’ve only got tab tables inside tab tables with embedded views).

Is there anyway when clicking on the different caption area that you could set the hide/when formula on the embedded view to hide?

I’m off to look at caption tables to see what I’m missing.

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Subject: RE: problem with an embedded view on a tabbed table in a caption table

This problem is in Domino Designer, not Notes. It works just fine in Notes. Switching to a different design element doesn’t refresh the screen in Designer, the embedded view stays stuck. Here are steps to reproduce the problem:

create a Caption Table with 2 rows

in row 1 create a tabbed table with 2 tabs

on the first tab embed a view

then click the 2nd caption row

If you switch to the tab without an embedded view before you change to the second caption row everything behaves normally.

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Subject: problem with an embedded view on a tabbed table in a caption table

I had problems with embedded views in Designer 6.5.4 which was not a problem in 6.5.3. I haven’t checked that particular scencario in later versions though. However I found a technote on this matter. Maybe there is some connection and if so I am afraid its a bug → http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21209355

/ Niklas

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Subject: problem with an embedded view on a tabbed table in a caption table

Support was able to duplicate the problem and this has been filed as SPR #CJON7BHUJU.