Web URL link to Notes Client

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I’m trying to have a domino web application have a link that’ll open up a form within the Notes Client. I know this will only work if Notes is successfully installed on the computer. I have the url built inside HTML code:

Scheduled in Period

Right now I’m just trying to get the database open in Notes from clicking a link on a web application. The first computed value is @Name([CN]; @Servername) and the 2nd computed value is @Subset(@DbName; -1).

It opens up in Notes, but I get an alert error message box that says “File does not exist”. Any ideas?

Is it even possible to do this? I read throughout the forum that it is if Notes is installed on the computer. But I must have my URL wrong. Eventually I’d like to open up to a specific form.

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Subject: Web URL link to Notes Client

Chrissy – you just have a couple things wrong with the way you specified the URL: Use only TWO slashes after the “Notes:” instead of three, and use a FORWARD slash instead of a BACKSLASH between the two Computed Values. You do NOT have to use the Replica ID – You can use the formula you are using to get the database path and name…

Like this:

Scheduled in Period

Hope this helps…

Gary

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Subject: RE: Web URL link to Notes Client

Thanks Gary for your help.

I did what you asked, and I no longer get the ‘File does not exist’ error, however, the database still doesn’t open it. It switches to Notes, but doesn’t open the database.

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Subject: RE: Web URL link to Notes Client

Use @WebDbName instead of @Subset(@DbName; -1) in your second Computed Value – it switches backslashes to forward slashes – depending on which browser you are using and where your database resides it may make a difference…

Look ath the HTML Source of the web page – what does the URL evaluate to?

Gary

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Subject: Web URL link to Notes Client

I’ve used this to open a document in the notes client, but I had to use the replica id of the database instead of the path & file name…

Here is the LS that assigns the URL to a variable:

strNotesURL = “NOTES://” & nameServer.Common & “/” & dbCurrent.ReplicaID & “/0/”

nameServer is a NotesName object of the server and dbCurrent is a NotesDatabase object of the current database.

Try using “@ReplicaID” for the 2nd Computed Value… and using a forward slash

notes://SERVER/85235D32090C45FD/

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Subject: RE: Web URL link to Notes Client

Thanks for your help.

I tried @ReplicaID, but it still told me that the file does not exist.

Should I only be using the CN of the @ServerName? Or the entire name?

Have you ever done it in formula language before?