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LotusScript

• 10 advanced LotusScript tips

  Here is some advice to experienced developers who want to take their LotusScript skills to the next level. These advanced-level tips will challenge you to use more complex LotusScript commands to improve the functionality, performance and clarity of...  Continue Reading

• 10 everyday LotusScript tips

  Here are some LotusScript best practices you should employ as part of your everyday coding. These intermediate-level tips will help you polish your routine coding methods and secure your LotusScript code.  Continue Reading

• 10 fundamental LotusScript tips

  Here are 10 basic LotusScript techniques that you should already be using if you've had any previous exposure to LotusScript. These beginner-level tips are also perfect for a Notes/Domino developer just getting started with LotusScript.  Continue Reading

• Easily show and hide layers in a Lotus Notes database

  SearchDomino.com member Jane Griscti provides simple instructions and LotusScript code that will easily allow you to show or hide layers in a Lotus Notes database.  Continue Reading

• A flexible data export agent for Lotus Notes

  SearchDomino.com contributor Chuck Connell provides a LotusScript data export agent that allows Lotus Notes users to define any number of their own export configurations (field lists and output files) -- without programming.  Continue Reading

• How to update Lotus Notes documents after an employee last-name change

  After a last-name change, a Lotus Notes user may no longer have proper access to Lotus Notes documents, because they still contain her old last name. This LotusScript utility from SearchDomino.com member Scott Huyser solves that problem. It updates ...  Continue Reading

• Secure Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with LotusScript

  Want to protect your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from tampering? This LotusScript code from SearchDomino.com member Prasad Knair programmatically lets you secure a Microsoft Excel file with a password and prohibit what columns can be edited.  Continue Reading

• Managing Lotus Notes doclinks with LotusScript

  When working with numerous doclinks in a Notes/Domino application, it's easy to lose track of them. This LotusScript code from SearchDomino.com member Benoit Dubuc finds and validates all doclinks in a Lotus Notes database.  Continue Reading

• Programmatically create a shortcut for Lotus Notes

  When used in a form action, this code from SearchDomino.com member Jon Urwin will invite users to click a button, browse for a file, and then insert a shortcut to that file in a rich-text field. This is ideal for items like a Lotus Notes discussion ...  Continue Reading

• A single form to view and edit any Lotus Notes document

  SearchDomino.com member Leonard Volovets explains how you can build a dynamic HTML form to view and edit Lotus Notes documents using a Web browser.  Continue Reading

• Creating and adding to multi-value fields within LotusScript

  It's a little bit tricky to create multi-value fields in LotusScript, particularly for a time-date or number field, but it can be done. SearchDomino.com contributor Chuck Connell explains how.  Continue Reading

• How to create a comments field for Lotus Notes documents

  SearchDomino.com member Ray Green explains how to create a comments field for Lotus Notes documents by setting up two simple fields and adding some LotusScript code.  Continue Reading

• Workaround for @DBLookup error: 'The specified database lookup generated more than 65,000 bytes of r

  It's common to receive this error message when performing an @DBLookup: "The specified database look-up generated more than 65,000 bytes of results, which is too large for Lotus Notes to handle in this context." SearchDomino.com member Vinay Betala ...  Continue Reading

• Create a Lotus Notes ACL analyzer using LotusScript

  When looking at an access control list (ACL) in a Lotus Notes database, you can only view information for one ACL entry at a time. For easier analysis, this LotusScript code from SearchDomino.com member Joe Steblay compiles all ACL information for a...  Continue Reading

• A batch file to back up all active-state BlackBerry databases

  Learn how to create a LotusScript agent that will make a DOS batch file to automatically back up all your active state BlackBerry databases to a specified folder.  Continue Reading