($Users) view in Domino Directory and Groups/People

Hello. If you have a minute, I’ve been looking into a problem with the LotusScript Send method and it’s failure when it encounters ambiguous names as recipients. In my case, I have a Group and a Person’s last name that match. When I try to send to the group, it results in this error…“Recipient so and so not unique. Several matches found in Domino Directory”. I traced the problem to the first column in ($Users) in the Domino Directory…it appears to me in looking at the column formula that…

no group name can match any person’s last name in the domain.

this is because the first column will always display the ListName of the Group and the LastName of any Person (and their equal @Soundex values).

Is this really true and if so, I’d have thought this problem would be more widespread with the Send method. The Send method doesn’t display the ambiguous users dialog box, it just fails. Thank you very much for reading this and if anybody has a workaround other than monkeying with ($Users), I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.

Subject: add your own lookup into the ($Users) view

if you find any matches see if more that one document is returned. if more than one doc is returned in the lookup you’ll have to handle it.

Subject: thanks a lot…but the router always uses the first column of $Users

it’s not what’s being entered into the SendTo…the problem is the router’s lookup. It’s almost as though the only recourse is to monkey with the first column of ($Users)…

I just can’t believe group names matching any individuals last name in a domain isn’t collapsing systems everywhere. Does it not happen often enough?