Editor's Note:
This tip is most useful for versions below ND6. In ND6, it will work, but @While and @For will perform iteration.
Most of time we have a field that has multiple values, and we want to use each value as a key to perform lookups. But @DBLookup does support multiple lookups in one shot. So we need to use LS for it. We can also do this in formula with the help of @Implode and @Explode.
Code
@Explode(@Implode
(@DbLookup( "Notes" : "NoCache" ; @dbname ;
"Viewname";MultivalueField ; "FieldToFetch");";");";")
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You may want to try using this:
@Explode(@Implode(@DbLookup( "Notes" :
"NoCache" ; @dbname ;"Viewname";MultivalueField ;
"FieldToFetch");";");";")
I've been told that the code above works unless one of the individual items generates an error -- then everything after that is blank. The Domino programmer I talked to said he has tried using this type of code, but ended up changing it to do a loop through each item in the Lotus Notes field so he could handle any error.
Again, this is hearsay as I haven't tried it myself!
—Dave F.
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