Checking that a name is in the address book
If you use editable Name field and you want to ensure that the name entered is listed in your address book...
If you use editable Name field (or author/reader) and you want to ensure that the name entered is listed in your address book, put this code in the validation formula of your field.
- This allows you to specifically define which Directory you want to look in... In my example I am looking at the names.nsf database at the root of the user server...
- This works only for single value field.
@If( @Name([O]; YOURFIELD) != "" ; @Return(YOURFIELD) ;
YOURFIELD ="" ; @Return("") ; "");
result :=@DbLookup("" ; @Subset(@MailDbName;1) : "names.nsf" ; "($Users)" ;
YOURFIELD ; "FullName" );
@If( @IsError(result) ;@Do( @Prompt([OK];"Erreur";"Unable to find the name in the adress book"); @Return(""));
@Elements(result)=1;@Return(result); "") ;
REM " C'est pas fini !";
result2:= @Replace(@Name([O];result ) ; "" ; "");
result3 := @Trim(@Replace(result; result+result2 ; "" ));
@If(@Elements(result3) = 1 ;@Return(result3) ;"" );
@Prompt ([OKCANCELLIST];"Homonyms" ; "Several names are matching" ;
@Subset(result3;1) ;result3 )
