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Best practices for using the Lotus Notes WebQuerySave agent


Sameer Thakur
03.13.2007
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The conventional way of validating data entered on any Lotus Notes form is to run a WebQuerySave agent. However, if any data is not confirming the expected values, an error message gets thrown to the user.

But the problem of running the WebQuerySave agent is twofold. Either we have to redirect the user to another page -- or take the user to the original form. Unfortunately, either approach causes data entered by the user to be lost forever. The user then has to enter the data again.

To avoid this pitfall, follow these steps:

If SaveOptions is set to "0," this means validations have been successful and it will save the form -- or else do nothing. In that case we have already set "errMsg" in an agent and after execution of the agent, the Web page gets refreshed and our Onload script will give an


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alert with the error message we set. This all happens without losing any data.

There is no need to use Ajax or any preloaded data for a client-side comparison. You should do your validations on the server and give alerts to your Lotus Notes users.

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