About This Code
Brief Description:
view document properties (alternative to the build in one)
Contributor:
Slawek Rogulski
Category:
Application, Design Elements
Notes Version:
R5.x, R6.x
Last Modified:
17 Jan 2004
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Code / Description
This utility consists of a view , two forms and an agent. It is invoked from the actions menu on a document selected in a view. It will then show a list of items found in the selected document along with their type, values and the flags.
It is useful in cases when the design of a database is hidden yet you need to check a value of certain fields or copy them.
How it works.
It iterates through the selected documents items and writes their properties to a document for each item. Those documents are then viewwed "through" a view embdedded into a form and displayed as a dialog box. Each item(document) in the view can be opened to copy the item value. Once the dialog box is closed the documents holding item properties are deleted.
Known issues/limitations.
1. Each deleted document will leave a deletion stub, about 100 bytes in size.
2. It takes time to create the documents threfore when used on a database hosted ona server a noticeable delay may be experienced due to network latency.
Future development/ideas
1. Allow editing of the items and creation of new items.
2. Delete the temporaty item documents without leaving a deletion stub. I have tried the Notes API but it will mess up the view index.
To use copy the design elements to your database.
views: (Document Shapshot\DocItems | viewUtilityDocItems
forms: (DocumentSnaprhot\Doc Items | formDSDocItems; (Document Snapshot\Item Doc | itemDoc
agents: Document Snapshot | agentDocumentSnapshot
Usage / Example
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