Subroutine to update a field in response documents after corresponding field in the parent document

This subroutine searches for all the response documents for the parent document and updates the corresponding related fields between them. 
Sub UpdateResponseField (docParent As NotesDocument, parentFieldName As String, responseFieldName As String)
  Dim docCollection As NotesDocumentCollection
  Dim docResponse As NotesDocument  
  
  parentValue = docParent.GetItemValue(parentFieldName)
  Set docCollection = docParent.Responses
  If docCollection.Count <> 0 Then
     For i=1 to docCollection.Count
        Set docResponse = docCollection.GetNthDocument(i)
        If Not docResponse Is Nothing Then
           Call docResponse.ReplaceItemValue(responseFieldName, parentValue(0))
           Call docResponse.Save(True, False)
        End If
     Next
  End If    
End Sub

This was first published in March 2001

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