Yes there is. Most of the database properties is stored in the $flags field on the icon note – and can be modified by Lotus Script. Details can be found in this Technote or in WoonBlog by Ninke Westra (where I found it)
LiveText is just awesome. If you don’t know what I’am talking about, watch the IBM Demo
Getting started:
* Articles and Step-by-step instructions can be found in the blog from Alan Lepofsky.
* The tutorial is great – in 3-4 hours a guided tour will teach you all you need to know… 🙂
Learning Regular Expressions:
* Tutorial and samples -> http://www.regular-expressions.info/
* You can test your expression here -> http://regex.powertoy.org/
* or buy a regular expression builder tool -> http://www.regexbuddy.com/
More ressources:
* DominoWiki.com
* IBM information center
In this article, I’ll show how you can launch word from Lotus Notes and transfer data to/from bookmarks in the word document
Create a new Word document
Set obj = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)
Call obj.documents.add()
set w = obj.ActiveWindow
Create a Word document from a file
Set obj = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)
Call obj.documents.open( filename )
Set w = obj.ActiveDocument
To save the changes you can use
Call w.save()
or
Call w.saveAs( filename)
Write data from Notes to a bookmark in the word document
‘Bookmark insert and recreate
Dim bmRange As Variant
Set bmRange = w.Bookmarks( nameOfBookmark ).Range
bmRange.Text = Cstr( value ) ‘insert new text
w.Bookmarks.Add position, bmRange ‘recreate the bookmark
or read data from a bookmark
value = w.Bookmarks( nameOfBookmark ).Range.Text
More ressources
Checkout the Attachmate script library in my Design Template database. In this database you have full integration to Word and Excel – like a light version of Intregra or Swing ..
How to use a single VBA procedure to read or write both custom and built-in Document Properties
If your are developing VBA in Lotus Notes – you do need the Microsoft Constant Database
From Lotus Script you can use CreateObject( “Excel.Application”) to get access to all the Excel classes. Now it is easy to create a new Excel sheet and fill it with data from Lotus Notes. MSDN: Excel Object Reference
Sample 1: Using a template file
Set excel = CreateObject(“Excel.Application”)
Set book = excel.Workbooks.open( filename )
Set sheet = excel.Worksheets( 1 )
excel.Visible = True
Sample 2: Creating a new blank sheet
Set excel = CreateObject(“Excel.Application”)
Set book = excel.Workbooks.Add()
Set sheet = excel.Worksheets( 1 )
excel.Visible = True
To read a value from Excel, use
value = sheet.range( “A2” ).value
or
value = sheet.Cells( 1, 2 ).value ‘col, row
To write data to a cell, use:
sheet.range( “A2” ).value = value
or
sheet.Cells( 1, 2 ).value = value ‘col, row
Useful functions to convert between a A1 style name and a row,column index:
‘Converts a coordinate (1,2) to a named reference (“A2”)
Function getCellIndex( col As Integer, row As Integer ) As String
Const AZ = “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”
Dim index As String
Dim l As Integer
Dim d As Integer
Dim r As Integer
l = Len( AZ )
d = col l
r = col Mod l
If r = 0 Then r = l : d = d-1
If d > 0 Then
index = Mid(AZ,d,1 )
End If
index = index & Mid( AZ,r,1 )
index = index & Cstr( row )
getCellIndex = index
End Function
‘Converts a named reference (“A2”) to a coordinate in the R1C1 style (“R2C1”)
Function r1c1( cell As String ) As String
Dim row As String
Dim column As String
Dim n As String
Dim char As String
If Instr( cell, “!” ) > 0 Then cell = Strright( cell, “!” )
char = Mid( cell, Len(cell)-Len( n ), 1 )
While Isnumeric( char )
n = n & char
char = Mid( cell, Len(cell)-Len( n ), 1 )
Wend
If n = “” Then n = “1”
column = Ucase( Left( cell, Len( cell )-Len( n )))
row = n
If Len( column ) > 1 Then
column = Cstr( ( Asc( Left( column,1 ))-Asc( “A” ) +1 ) * 28 + (Asc( Right( column,1 ))-Asc( “A” ) +1))
Else
column = Cstr( Asc( column )-Asc( “A” ) +1)
End If
r1c1 = “R” & row & “C” & column
End Function
Other resources
You can see the ReplicaID on the Info tab in the database properties – but you can’t copy from here. Instead you can open the database and double click on the select button in the addressbar (see screenshot). now you have the complete notes url to the database – and you can easily copy/paste the replicaid (or document unid or view id) from here.
Another way is to open the Document properties box – on the meta tab (marked with an +) you wil find the complete notes url in the ‘identifier’ field
If you write this value to a Notes document:
“Hello” & Chr( 10 ) & “World”
Notes will automatically convert the Chr( 10 ) to a full 2 bytes newline: Chr( 13 ) & Chr( 10 )
Don’t know if this is good or bad – but it took me some time to figure out why the strings on my document was changed…
Sample code:
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Set doc = session.CurrentDatabase.CreateDocument
Dim s As String
s = “Hello” & Chr( 10 ) & “World” ‘Use Chr( 13 ) & Chr( 10 ) instead
doc.string = “Hello” & Chr( 10 ) & “World”
If doc.string( 0 )
s Then
Print “Not has auto converted Chr( 10 ) to Chr( 13 ) & Chr( 10 )”
End If
In this site you can find a lot of Lotus documentation. I have just been using the "Programming Guide, Volume 4: XML, Domino DTD, and JSP Tags" found on the Designer 7 page. You can also use the official documenentation site
