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I would have to see your code to understand what you are trying to do. You cannot create a $Links field directly. This is a reserved field that is created by Lotus Notes when you add doc links to a rich-text field.
It's not clear why this process is not working, nor why the doclinks are "Converted to dblinks". I don't recall having experienced that behavior. The only way I have seen AppendDocLink fail either raises an error at runtime, when the user clicks the link, or both.
So without seeing your LotusScript code, I can only point out the following caveats:
- Make certain that both Lotus Notes databases have a default form and view. doclinks can fail in a number of ways if this is not true.
- Prior to Lotus Domino R7, no changes to a rich-text field are visible in the UI until the document is saved, closed, and reopened. I doubt this is an issue here.
- Verify that the "linkto" object you are passing to the AppendDocLink method is, in fact, a document. Since I have never seen a link fail in any way that does not raise an error, my guess would be that your LotusScript agent has a bug and is linking to the Lotus Notes database instead of the intended document. Because the method is not type-safe, this wouldn't raise any alarm bells.
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