Three steps to trap and handle save conflicts with LotusScript

Save conflicts can be a big problem in Notes/Domino databases. The conflicts usually occur when one or more users open a document with a link that subsequently opens several other times in the Notes client. Here is a three-part solution.

1. Set up a simple view that contains all documents in the database within a single column comprised of @text(@DocumentUniqueID) and sorted in ascending order. In my example, the view is called "ByUNID."
2. Use the function noConflict (shown below in code) in either the document, a script library or an .LSS file.
3. In either the onSubmit or onQuerySave event, use the code "Continue = noConflict( Source )."

   If further processing is required, the value of "Continue" allows a developer to branch entries accordingly before exiting. For example, "If Continue = false, then exit sub."

My example is a simple No Conflicts Allowed flow. You can alert the user to the ot...

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her changes using the NotesItem.LastModified property instead of the user's NotesDocument.LastModified property. You could also use this to merge the documents if the changed fields were different.

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