Transfering Data between Fields in forms (Web App)

Sorry for the long explanation but I hope this will maybe put me on the right track. Thanks all in advance.

I am working to create a web app for police officer to perform house checks that have been requested by residents. Currently I have have two forms and three views.

Form A is a form the resident fills on the web. It has info like address name, etc

Form B is a officer check form has 4 fields Address, date/time checked(@now), comments, and who checked it.

On form A I have a button that is viewable only by the officers to initiate a new check. This should set a hidden field on Form A with the current date/time and open Form B copying the address from form a to form b.

I have done this in LS, but it doesn’t work on the web.

I have tried Java also, but can’t seem to get it right.

Below is what I have tried:

In Java :

document.forms[0].Last_Check.value= now();

opt = document.forms[0].ReqType.value;

window.location.href = “http://Server/apps/PD/Housewat.nsf/OfficerCheck?OpenForm&Check_Address=“+opt+””;

In LotusScript:

Dim ws As New NotesUIWorkspace

Dim db As NotesDatabase 

Dim docHouseWatch As NotesDocument 

Dim docOfficerCheck As NotesDocument 

Dim uidoc As notesuidocument 

Dim uidoc2 As NotesUIDocument

Dim nDT As Variant



Set db = ws.CurrentDatabase.Database



Set uidoc = ws.CurrentDocument 

Set docHouseWatch= ws.currentdocument.document 

Set docOfficerCheck = db.createdocument 

nDT = Cstr(Now)



docOfficerCheck.Form = "OfficerCheck" 

docOfficerCheck.Check_Address = docHouseWatch.Address(0)

docHouseWatch.Form = "HouseWatch"

doc.HouseWatch.Last_Check = nDT



Set uidoc = ws.EditDocument( True, docOfficerCheck, False )

Set uidoc2 = ws.EditDocument (True, docHouseWatch, False)

Subject: Transfering Data between Fields in forms (Web App)

Have you considered simply using inheritance? (The URL command would be ?OpenForm&ParentUNID=.) You can remove the $Ref item that’s created if you don’t want a main/response relationship.

Subject: pass the value in the url string

i remember doing this, but don’t recall the details…search this forum for passing values, query string

Subject: Transfering Data between Fields in forms (Web App)

In the form that will receive the data, in the form properties on the second tab, check the box “formulas inherit values from selected document”. Then pass the value in the URL. See if that works.