Inheriting Values From Selected Doc In View Applet

Inheriting Values From Selected Doc In View Applet

Here's a way you can use a view action button on the web to inherit values from
the view's selected document into a new document.
[Note: @Command([Compose]; "InheritanceForm") won't work on the view level on
the web, although it works fine from a form action button with the parent doc
open.]

This technique combines the URL field inheritance approach described in Notes
Designer Help with an undocumented view applet API call mentioned in Lotus's
Killer Apps 2.
Assuming you have field inheritance working from the Notes client, just make an
view action button with the following javascript (modified for your particular
server, db, and form names, of course):

var vectorSelected = document.applets.view.getSelectedDocumentsEx();
var docUNID = vectorSelected.elementAt(0);
top.location="http://server/db.nsf/InheritanceForm?OpenForm&ParentUNID=" +
docUNID

Go to the web, select the desired parent doc, click the action button, and
rejoice.

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This was first published in November 2000

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