When is comes to Domino Development I’m very green. I am the admin for my Notes environment, but development was never my strong point and am hoping someone can assist me in any way. We have a form (expense reimbursement form) that has workflows, drop downs, and is very comprehensive. I need to make a change to a drop down, but do not know where the data is being fed from. I’ve been through every instance of this form in Designer and can not find a thing, can someone give me a little insight as to how data is fed into a from? Hopefully someone understands what I am describing…Thanks!
Subject: So, what does the “pull down” refer to?
I can think of ~1doz things that pull down in Notes. It’d be critical to know what youre looking at as a design component to hold this data.
But before we start – is this a form to render in Notes, or through a browser?
If Notes, I can think of some of these …
As MarkmTaylor said, it could well be a combo box. Now, the combo box displays its drop down selections in Field Properties. Doubleclick on the combo box field, select tab 2 in the infobox that pops up, & what’s there will tell us. It could be a simple list , but the app complexity would make me guess youll see @DBLookup in it. Paste us the entire formula if you find it contains some @function, thatll help us know what youre seeing.
If the design is complicated enough its also likely to be in a subform, not a form. So you may only see “computed subform” at that point in the form. If so, click on the subform, and the formula below it will tell you the name of the subform. That subform can be found in the left sidebar under “shared design elements”, “subforms”.
These situations are to be expected for well-built workflow apps.
Maybe it’s a section, in which case the data sits on the document utself, or its computed by fields defined there.
If it’s a drop down action, most displays wouldn’t be a system command.
There are agents which would drop down from the Actions menu.
There are layout regions that could hide & unhide based on other data.
A hotspot could trigger a dialog box, but this wouldn’t drop down from a specific point on the form. It’d be more of a popup.
Tables can be hid & unhid to drop down from a position on the form.
Subject: If i understand your question…
Open the form, locate the ‘Pulldown’ field. Right click - choose ‘Field Properties’.
First tab will show the field name, type, etc. Probably a Dialog List, or List Box… Click the second tab - the ‘Choices’ area will show where the data originates.
Hope that’s what you’re asking!
Subject: RE: In Designer, open you form
Carl-
Thank you for your response, unfortunately when I do that I get (Run System Command: (Then the name of anything I click on)
Dave
Subject: OK I’ve seen this on lower resolution screens
In this case, you want to use your mouse to slide the action pane out.
Subject: In Designer, open you form
Then choose View, Action Pane. You should then see the drop down menu etc. for the form appear on the right side.