View Action Help

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Hi all

I have a view called “MachineView / Process” this is populated using the Form “MachineForm / Maintenance”. On the view I have a Action called, “Set Active”. What I am trying to do is use the “Set Active” button / action to change the value of a field called “EquStatus” on the highlighted document in the view, and change the field to the text “Active”. I tried the following formula in the action.

@SetDocField( DocUNID ; “EquStatus” ; “Active”)

But I dont think its getting the actual Doc ID of the highlighted document.

Any help is appreciated

Regards

Douglas Bell

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Subject: View Action Help

Taken from Lotus Domino Designer 7 Help

This button formula changes the value of the name field in the current document to Joseph Riley:

@SetDocField(@DocumentUniqueID;“name”;“Joseph Riley”)

in your case:

@setdocfield(@documentuniqueID;“EquStatus”;“Active”)

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Subject: RE: View Action Help

Hi

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I tried that to but it still does not work, basically DocUNID is the same as @DocumentUniqueID.

Regards

Douglas Bell

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Subject: View Action Help

Hi

Thanks for all the replys, hmmmm I have tried all suggestions, and they work in the view, but sorry I forgot to mention that I was using this view embedded on a form. It works if you go to the view itself but doesnt seem to work on the embedded view…

Cheers

Douglas Bell

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Subject: RE: View Action Help

Douglas,

This information would have helped out a lot at the beginning. There might be a way with Lotus Script, but if you don’t mind typing in or pasting “Active”, I would suggest that you try the Editable Column. This will work in an embedded view.

If you have more information to change then just the one or two fields then check out the View Editor.

HTH

Teri

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Subject: View Action Help

How aboutFIELD EquStatus:= “Active”

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Subject: RE: View Action Help

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I tried that to, but it still does not change the field on the highlighted document.

Regards

Douglas Bell

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Subject: RE: View Action Help

His suggestion works fine. Are you sure that you are clicking the right button?This works perfectly well:

FIELD EquStatus:= “Active”;

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Subject: RE: View Action Help

There is only one button on my view, called “Set Active”.

The above code works great if the button was on the form itself and the document was in Edit mode, but I am trying to get this to work with only the highlighted document (Not selected document, eg no tick) in a view, its so the user does not have to go into the form an edit it to manualy set a status to active, they can do it by clicking on the document in the view and clicking on the “Set Active” action.

I have made sure “Evaluate Actions for every document change” is selected on the view.

Regards

Douglas Bell

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Subject: View Action Help

And what about creating an agent with a Simple Action “Modify Field”, replacing the value in field “EquStatus” with the new value “Active” ?

Hope this helps,

Christine

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Subject: View Action Help

Morning,

I use the following all the time: @SetField(“Body”; “Hi I changed this”); to change documents in the view.

I checked again works fine either with the document highlighted or selected (checkmark to the left).

HTH

Teri