Search an UIView with a Sample Form

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Dear sirs of Lotus ( or IBM/Lotus, i don’t know…). Dear friends of this forum…

Actually, my users needs are not too big… neither 'web services 'nor ‘XML enhancements’

What my users need is to filter a view with a sample form in his Notes client.

I’ll try to explain you:

The user clik ONE single button… or action… or link… but only ONE click.

A form appropiated for the view appears (not a list of forms, only the form that the user expect).

The user fills up the fields of his interest and pulse ‘Ok’.

The view is filtered and only the documents that match the fields filled appears.

And that’s all. Really simple,… But i don’t know how to do that.

Well, how can i do that?

I commit mysel to show the form, and construct the full search string (it’s not very difficult).

So, the only think I need is know how to filter the view that the user is seeing. Easy, isn’t it?

Thanks in advance

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Subject: Standard Notes functionality

This is standard, basic Notes functionality that does not need any development by you, except potentially creating a form, neither any further Notes development from Lotus…

The database must be full text indexed. The user opens the search view which should of course be a view which contains all the documents he is to search between. Then select View – Search this view to get the seach bar visible on top of the view. Select the little black arrow with “More” to the right of the seach bar, andclicks the button “Fill out example form”.

In the dialogbox that now opens, the user is presented with a list of the forms that are available for search. (Which forms get included in the list is dependent on a setting in the Form Properties dialog box “Include in Search builder”.)

Create the form you want users to use for the search if you cannot use one of the existing forms, make sure that the “Include in Seach builder” is checked for this form (-- and potensialy deselect this option for all other forms).

If you had searched in the Help files, you would have found this under Searching for documents using an example form in the ordinary client Help

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Subject: RE: Standard Notes functionality

Hi Espen,

Thank you your very fast response.

It’s clear, it’s extensive, and yes, I had read the help about this, but… don’t respond to my question.

My end users are no experts. In fact, they’re not people with many knowledge about computers. Really, they HATE computers.

The only opportunity for success is create an comfortable enviroment with all options needed ( and no others) not so far than a couple of mouse-clicks.

If my users find the posibility to do something wrong ( like select an inappropiate form in the search form list ) they’ll use it only for the pleasure of call my boss saying “I’m find an error in your application”. Do you know?

Well, someone say before: “it’s an IBM product. It has all, but anyone knows where”

My work, in this moment, is create an intuitive enviroment for my users to filter documents. How can i do that?

Thanks one more time.