Using names.nsf undocumented features

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Have you ever wanted to use the "Select Names" Web dialog, as seen in names.nsf and webadmin.nsf in R6.x, in your own R6 Web applications? This tip shows you how to do it.

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Good job. I love when somebody finds a simple but effective solution that can help a lot. It helps in creating a more user-friendly application, and even helps developers to look for a way how to do it next time.

—Petr H

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When this has been done, it works (a bit slowly in populating the list, but it saves me coding!). I haven't fully tested the multiple selection of names (they won't fit into a standard field, of course), and I need to see how they end up in a stored document -- but it's a start!

Also, if you change the agent "wReadAddressData" in the NAB in the initialize section

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thus: 'RSB: Was column 2 (not 3), which gave the e-mail address. What we need is the Notes address, column 3.

You can get it to return Notes Names rather than e-mail addresses. You'll probably want to either change the template or clone, and amend the code to call another agent with this change, rather than change the original -- but you get the drift….

—Ralph B.

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This tip is very nice. But the computed text's value has a problem and to correct it is not nice. Here is the right one:

I tried this, and it works well.

—Oya K.

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