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The Lotus Notes NotesDatabase class provides a method to determine a template name, but it only works for the template file itself -- template.ntf.
As far I could find out, there is no prescribed method to grab the true template name for a Lotus Notes database.
Upon further research, I found out that the name is stored in the NotesDatabase icon. The icon can be accessed as any other Lotus Notes document.
From Lotus Notes/Domino R6 on, there is a new class -- called NotesNoteCollection. The NotesNoteCollection class represents a collection of Lotus Domino design and data elements in a Lotus Notes database.
I did a quick debug to find the proper place to look for the template name value. Below, you will find LotusScript code that will retrieve the name of a template used for a specific Lotus Notes database.
Function getTemplate
( db As NotesDatabase ) As String
Dim template As String, aux As String
Dim nc As NotesNoteCollection
Dim icon As notesdocument
Dim noteid As String
getTemplate = "No Template"
Set nc = db.CreateNoteCollection( False )
nc.SelectIcon = True
Call nc.BuildCollection
Set icon = db.GetDocumentByID
( nc.GetFirstNoteId )
If not icon Is Nothing Then
getTemplate =
icon.Parentdatabase.DesigntemplateName
End If
End Function
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How about using the DesignTemplateName property of the NotesDatabase object.
This gives direct access to the template name that a database inherits it from.
—Thierry S.
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Why not just use the database property: DesignTemplateName?
Dim db As New NotesDatabase
(<server name>, <path\file name>)
template$ = db.DesignTemplateName
—Steen H.
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The "Icon" design document has a fixed NoteID, therefore you do not need to skip through design elements to get this design document. Just simply use the following:
set doc = db.GetDocumentByID("FFFF8010")
where:
FFFF is NOTE_ID_SPECIAL which can be
used instead of using API call NSFDbGetSpecialNoteID.
8000 is NOTE_CLASS_DEFAULT
0010 is NOTE_CLASS_ICON
Using this method, you can, easily get the following design documents, for example:
set doc = db.GetDocumentByID("FFFF8004")
'DEFAULT FORM -> 0004 is NOTE_CLASS_FORM
set doc = db.GetDocumentByID("FFFF8008")
'DEFAULT VIEW -> 0008 is NOTE_CLASS_VIEW
—Dennis F..
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