List field values of several documents in alphabetical order

This tip will let you select one or more documents and export all its field values in alphabetical field order.

'compare fields:

Option Public
Option Declare
Sub Initialize
    Dim session As New NotesSession
    Dim db As NotesDatabase
    Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection
    Dim doc As NotesDocument
    Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
    Dim arrValue() As String
    Dim fileNum As Integer
    fileNum% = Freefile()
    Open "C:\temp\compare.txt" For Output As fileNum%

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
    Set collection = db.UnprocessedDocuments
    For i = 1 To collection.Count
        Set doc = collection.GetNthDocument( i )
        Print #fileNum%, "Document nr. " & Cstr (i)
        j = 0
        Forall item In doc.items
            Redim Preserve arrValue(j)
            arrValue(j) = item.Name & ": " & item.text
            j = j + 1
        End Forall

       

Call Bubblesort(arrValue)

       

Forall value In arrValue
            Print #fileNum%, value
        End Forall
        Print #fileNum%, ""
    Next

End Sub

Sub BubbleSort(A As Variant)
    Dim I As Long, J As Long, Hi As Long
    Dim Temp As Variant
    Dim lb As Long
    Dim ub As Long

    lb = Lbound(A)
    ub = Ubound(A)

   

Hi = ub
    Do
            J = 0
            For i = lb + 1 To Hi
            If A(I - 1) > A(I) Then
                J = I - 1
                Temp = A(J)
                A(J) = A(I)
                A(I) = Temp
            End If
        Next
        Hi = J
    Loop Until J = 0
End Sub

This was first published in May 2001

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