HI
Is it possible to create HTML code in a column in a notes view to show only in the Notes client?
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Subject: Showing HTML in the Notes client
No. Rendering HTML in the Notes client is just that, rendering HTML into rich text; Notes doesn’t display HTML.
That doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t do what you want (although it may), but we’d need to know what problem you’re trying to solve rather than how you’re trying to solve it in order to make suggestions.
Subject: RE: Showing HTML in the Notes client
Hi STan,
The reason for my question is because I want to show an alias to the user, in this case through a notes client view. if they click on the alias then the url behind it will be opened. I dont want to show the full url to the user because it can be very large.
Actually something like the HTML code Open link
Thats why i though to do it through html but then in the notes client.
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Subject: RE: Showing HTML in the Notes client
Unfortunately, that doesn’t rank high on the “things that are both possible and practical in the Notes client” scale, Patrick. You can’t render passthru HTML in a view in the client, so the obvious and easy way is out.
There is an ugly, hacky, and unstable way to have the content of a (very simple and short) rich text field displayed in a view (by marking the field as Summary in back-end code), so the thought might occur that you could create a hotspot on the doc and work with that – but the view will still act like a view (one click selects, double-clicking opens), so even if you can guarantee that the hotspot is displayed and no user can ever edit the document (destroying the Summary flag), it still won’t work as a hotspot.
You could work with view/form code (on a special view) to intercept the document open and force a URL open instead, but that would mess with users’ expectations in a way that would hurt (things that look the same act differently; sometimes the document opens, sometimes the link opens, and some percentage of users will never get the hang of it).
If the list of links is stable enough (infrequent changes) and short enough (less than several thousand), it might be more practical to maintain the “view” as (a) table(s) on documents using an agent. (Building/maintaining such a table document using DXL can be verbose — lots of typing — but it’s not difficult.)
But, yeah, if there’s one thing I always wanted in the Notes client, it was the option to make views work the same way they can in a Domino web app (where a view can be just about anything you can imagine). You get a lot more options in the Eclipse-based Notes 8+ client, but I’ve never worked with the current versions long enough to get to know them well (and it’s probably not an option for you).
Subject: RE: Showing HTML in the Notes client
Hi
Thank you for the response and explanation.
Would be more easier to accomplish to only show the alias in the view column? So not opening an url when clicking the doc row in the view?
Subject: RE: Showing HTML in the Notes client
It’s just text, so why not? You can’t do it with an HTML-formatted link, though; it would have to just be the text (which you my be able to extract with a formula).
Subject: RE: Showing HTML in the Notes client
In our recent project, Our business have a click requiremet for opening a document in the view .Our solution is exporting the documents in the view to a excel, the excel has the link to open the target document & filtering view cloumns