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Brief Description:
Updating Parent when Child changes A Notes formula for updating parents when a child
Contributor:
Andrew Jones
Last Modified:
17 Jun 2002
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Code / Description
Updating Parent when Child changes A Notes formula for updating parents when a child changes in Notes R3/4. Both parents and responses share a common key, the parent's DocID is stored in each response document in a field called $REF. We can use this common key in a hidden view, call it (Parents by DocID), which contains the following formula in the first sorted column (this column can be hidden):
@Text(@DocumentUniqueID)
Now when someone updates a response document, you can use the following formula in the Save/Close button to quickly open the (Parents by DocID) view to the key that matches the $REF in the response document. Then we can refresh the parent, and/or run a macro on it, and then close the view...
view := (Parents by DocID);
key := @Text($REF);
REM;
REM;
@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([FileCloseWindow]);
@Command([OpenView]; view; key; "1");
@Command([EditDeselectAll]);
@Command([ToolsRunMacro]; "(Set to Filled)");
@Command([ToolsRefreshSelectedDocs]);
@Command([FileCloseWindow]);
By the way, the @DocumentUniqueID function is not documented and is not supported on the Macintosh platform in Notes V3, but it is fully documented and supported in Notes V4.
Usage / Example
Comments
Posted by Kasper T Mortensen on 06/17/2004 09:52:10 AM@SetDocField
You could also use @SetDocField. This is an excerpt from Designer Help:
This formula, if placed on a button in a response form, changes the Subject of the parent document to "More people are commuting by bicycle." $Ref is a special field on a response document that contains the unique ID of the parent document.
@SetDocField($Ref; "Subject"; "More people are commuting by bicycle")