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This is a Domino solution for hiding the attachments at the bottom of a Web form, and placing them at a designated spot elsewhere in the form. It uses icons that represent the program used to create/read them in.
Instructions:
- Add a hidden field on the top of your form. Fields:
Name: $V2AttachmentOptions
Type: Text computed for display
Value: 0
- Place another field in your form that is hidden when read:
Name: MiscBody (doesn't matter)
Type: Rich Text, editable
Web Access Display: Using Java Applet
Default Value: None
- Hide paragraph when document is previewed/opened for reading
- You will need the images you wish to use to represent the attachments. Place them in your resources image folder. The ones I am using for this example are:
Word_Icon.gif
Excel_icon.gif
Generic_icon.gif
Pdf_icon.gif
Powerpoint_icon.gif
Text_icon.gif
- On your form, where you want the attachments with their icons to appear, place a computed text field.
- In that field, place the code you see below.
- Substitute the NSF file name with your database's name, and server name, if necessary.
This handles up to five attachments. You will have to add more code if you think they will be adding more attachments to one form.
Code:
temp:=@Implode(@AttachmentNames;";");
at1 := @If(@Attachments >= 1;
@Word(temp;";";1);"");
Att1 := @If(@Attachments >= 1;
@Right(@Word(temp;";";1);3);"");
icon1:=@If(@UpperCase(Att1) = "PDF";"
<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/pdf_icon.gif
?OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att1) = "XLS";"
<IMG SRC=/BusiRpt.NSF/excel_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att1) = "DOC";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/Word_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att1) = "PPT";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/powerpoint_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att1) =
("TXT" : "HTM" : "HTML");"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/text_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(Att1 != "";"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.
NSF/generic_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ; ""))))));
Final1 := "<a href=""+ @Text
(@DocumentUniqueID)+"/$file/"+at1+""
target="_new">" + icon1 + " " + at1 +
"</a> <br>";
at2 := @If(@Attachments >= 2;
@Word(temp;";";2);"");
Att2 := @If(@Attachments >= 2;
@Right(@Word(temp;";";2);3);"");
icon2:=@If(@UpperCase(Att2) =
"PDF";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/pdf_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att2) = "XLS";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/excel_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att2) = "DOC";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/Word_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att2) = "PPT";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/powerpoint_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att2) = ("TXT" : "HTM"
: "HTML");"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/text_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(Att2 != "";"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.
NSF/generic_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ; ""))))));
Final2 := "<a href=""+
@Text(@DocumentUniqueID)+"/$file/"+at2+""
target="_new">" + icon2 + " " +
at2 + "</a> <br>";
at3 := @If(@Attachments >= 3;
@Word(temp;";";3);"");
Att3 := @If(@Attachments >= 3;
@Right(@Word(temp;";";3);3);"");
icon3:=@If(@UpperCase(Att3) =
"PDF";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/pdf_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att3) = "XLS";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/excel_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att3) = "DOC";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/Word_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att3) = "PPT";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/powerpoint_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att3) = ("TXT" : "HTM" :
"HTML");"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/text_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(Att3 != "";"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/
generic_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ; ""))))));
Final3 := "<a href=""+
@Text(@DocumentUniqueID)+"/$file/"+at3+""
target="_new">" + icon3 + " " + at3
+ "</a> <br>";
at4 := @If(@Attachments >= 4;
@Word(temp;";";4);"");
Att4 := @If(@Attachments >= 4;
@Right(@Word(temp;";";4);3);"");
icon4:=@If(@UpperCase(Att4) =
"PDF";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/pdf_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att4) = "XLS";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/excel_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att4) = "DOC";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/Word_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att4) = "PPT";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/powerpoint_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att4) = ("TXT" : "HTM" :
"HTML");"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/text_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(Att4 != "";"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/
generic_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ; ""))))));
Final4 := "<a href=""+ @Text
(@DocumentUniqueID)+"/$file/"+at4+""
target="_new">" + icon4 + " " +
at5 + "</a> <br>";
at5 := @If(@Attachments >= 5;
@Word(temp;";";5);"");
Att5 := @If(@Attachments >= 5;
@Right(@Word(temp;";";5);3);"");
icon5:=@If(@UpperCase(Att5) =
"PDF";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/pdf_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att5) = "XLS";
"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/excel_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att5) = "DOC";"
<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/Word_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att5) = "PPT";"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/powerpoint_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(@UpperCase(Att5) = ("TXT" : "HTM" :
"HTML");"<IMG
SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/text_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ;
@If(Att5 != "";"<IMG SRC=/ProjectTracking.NSF/
generic_icon.gif?
OpenImageResource BORDER=0 >" ; ""))))));
Final5 := "<a href=""+ @Text
(@DocumentUniqueID)+"/$file/"+at5+""
target="_new">" + icon5 + " " +
at5 + "</a> <br>";
final := final1+ final2+ final3+ final4+ final5; final
MEMBER FEEDBACK TO THIS TIP
The above code can be significantly simplified to:
imgOpen := "<img src="";
imgLoc := "/projecttracking.nsf/";
imgClose := ".gif" border="0">";
thisUnid := @text(@documentuniqueid);
anchorOpen := "<a href="";
anchorMiddle := "" target="_new">";
anchorClose := "</a>";
anchorOpen + thisUnid + "/$file/" +
@attachmentnames + anchorMiddle + imgOpen +
imgLoc + @lowercase(@right(@attachmentnames;"."))
+ imgClose + anchorclose;
This will work without having to repeat the code regardless of the number of attachments. The only requirement is for an icon to be associated with each extension in the resource library (or wherever you want for that matter, just change the imgLoc variable).
—Ben J.
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