Process large arrays in Notes forms without undue coding or testing

Six years ago, we wrote an application for an international company with offices in 27 countries that would allow their Lotus Notes users to enter budgets for each of their particular sales offices.

The company's budget form contained a profit and loss account (one for each product/customer) and 24 cost and revenue fields for each month and record.

The form also contains 24 x 12 fields and a view key field, for a total of about 3,000 fields per document. Testing the code was a nightmare.

We decided to use a different field-naming convention so that th

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e information following the "_" in the field name represented the month. For example, Frate_1 is the rate for Month 1, Frate_2 is the rate for Month_2, and so on. We found that this naming convention made testing and coding much easier.

This solution moves the rates into a subscripted table in a Lotus Notes document. The LotusScript code effectively reduced the size of the script library by a factor of 12.

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