About This Code
Brief Description:
Open documents via URL link in emails
Contributor:
Andrew Jones
Last Modified:
17 Jun 2002
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Code / Description
Usage / Example
Here's what to do (steps indicated by the '-' symbol):
-Configure the database to force authentication, so it can determine
associated rights and Roles for each specific user.
- Create two (or more) forms with appropriate navigator links, each dependent
on the role of the authentic user; i.e. Techie_TOPNav_Form (for MIS personnel)
and say NonTechie_TOPNavForm (for Sales personnel)
- Create another form called WebLaunch_Form. This form will contain both a)
QUERY_STRING and b) $$HTMLHEAD field
a) The content of the computed for display QUERY_STRING field is as follows:
REM "This is a CGI variable field automatically populated by the
browser with a value from its URL address";
QUERY_STRING
b) The content of the computed for display $$HTMLHEAD field is as
follows:
REM "http://<IP Address>/<directory>/dBase.nsf - represent
the IP Address/DNS name of the Domino server and the directory path to
the database.";
@If( @IsMember( "[TechnicalRole]"; @UserRoles ) | @UserRoles =
"[TechnicalRole]";
@Do( "" );
@Do( "" ) )
- Create a document using this WebLaunch_Form form.
- Label this document with an additional field such that it is the
first document list in a specific view
- Configure the properties of the database, such that the 'Opened in a
browser' option is selected as:
'Launch first document in view' and reference the view in which the
WebLaunch_Form document resides, as in the previous step above
- Any e-mails then dispatch to personnel, should contain the URL to various
documents with the following URL structure:
http://<IP Address>/<directory>/dBase.nsf?opendatabase&<DocumentID>
NB: <DocumentID> is the Universal Document ID of the referenced document to be accessed
When the user clicks the URL on the e-mail, the frameset as referenced in the
WebLaunch_Form document via the database properties is opened in the user's
browser. This WebLaunch_Form document obtains reference to the e-mail's
referenced document in the e-mail via the Query_String (parsed from the URL
address) and is then opened in the 'MainFrame' frame part of the frameset.