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Managing Lotus Notes doclinks with LotusScript

Benoit Dubuc
02.20.2007
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This LotusScript code finds all the doclinks in a Lotus Notes application and validates them. It also determines whether or not the target document is still in the Lotus Notes database.

To begin, use the code below to create a "Link Info" document for each doclink encountered. This needs to be in an agent that runs on all the documents in the Lotus Notes database:

Next, we need to use an agent that will try to open up those doclinks to see if the target doc is still in the Lotus Notes database. But first, you'll need to create a view that will show all "Link Info" documents, sorted by DocUNID:

Last comes the tricky part of the effort. You may have images that have link hotspots on them that you want to validate. Here's a nifty way of doing it through DXL (Lotus Notes 6.5 or higher is required):

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database is the option of having two embedded views: one showing doclinks in the current document, the other one showing links pointing to the current document. You should embed the view in the document's form and put the doc UNID as single category.

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