a filename, then gets the value of those items and writes them to a file in CSV
format. If nothing is found in the view, it returns false.
Enjoy!
Function WriteValuesToFile(viewTarget As NotesView, varFieldNames As
Variant,strFileName As String) As Integer
Dim intFileNum As Integer
Dim intArraySubscript As Integer
Dim vecViewTarget As NotesViewEntryCollection
Dim ventViewTarget As NotesViewEntry
Dim docViewTarget As NotesDocument
Dim strFieldName As String
Const Quote = {"}
Const Delim = {,}
Const EndLine = {;}
Set vecViewTarget = viewTarget.AllEntries
If vecViewTarget.count < 1 Then 'Check for values to retrieve before opening a
file handle
WriteValuesToFile = False
Exit Function
Else
WriteValuesToFile = True
End If
intFileNum = Freefile()
Open strFileName For Output As #intFileNum
Set ventViewTarget = vecViewTarget.GetFirstEntry 'Get 1st entry in view
Do While Not ( ventViewTarget Is Nothing) ' for all the documents in the
view, print out the desired field values to the file
Set docViewTarget = ventViewTarget.Document
strDocRecord = ""
For intArraySubscript = 0 To Ubound(varFieldNames)
strFieldName = varFieldNames(intArraySubscript)
Set itmNeeded = docViewTarget.GetFirstItem(strFieldName)
If strDocRecord = "" Then
strDocRecord = Quote & itmNeeded.text & Quote
Else
strDocRecord =strDocRecord & Delim & Quote & itmNeeded.text & Quote
End If
Next intArraySubscript
strDocRecord =strDocRecord & EndLine 'Here is the whole delimited string to
go on a line in the file
Print #intFileNum, strDocRecord
Set ventViewTarget = vecViewTarget.GetNextEntry(ventViewTarget)
Loop
Close #fileNumInt
End Function
This was first published in November 2000