I am creating a view. The problem is that there are many thousands of items that the user needs to pick from. There isn’t really a good way to categorize these items. How would you go about displaying this? I am more of a .NET programmer, and would do it with a text box. They type something in, and it would show any item that partially matches the entered text. But I don’t know how/if you even can do that in Lotus. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Subject: No simple answer
There is no simple answer to this question. You will have to do more research on Notes design elements.
I would start with
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Full text search
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Single category embedded view
features of Notes.
Examining existing applications (from OpenNTF.org, for example) would certainly help too.
Subject: @Picklist
(there is a picklist for Lotusscript, too. I think it is in Notesuiworkspace)