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Public Function GetDocFromDb( db As NotesDatabase, viewName As String, key() As Variant, exact As Boolean ) As NotesDocument

' returns the first doc based on a search key
' posted to http://www.openntf.org/projects/codebin/codebin.nsf/CodeBySubCategory/D8474BE8C4FEEB35862574EF00628013
' written by Mike Mortin
Dim view As NotesView

' get the view
Set view = db.GetView(viewName)

' get the doc from the key
Set GetDocFromDb = view.GetDocumentByKey(key, exact)
End Function

Use this to shorten your code if you don't need to declare the variables other than for the lookup. It works well when placed in a common script library.
Just define each key per column you want to return on. Here, assume the 2 columns in the 'PeopleByLastFirst' view are last name and first name

...
key(0) = "Mortin"
key(1) = "Mike"
set doc = GetDocFromDB(nabDb, "PeopleByLastFirst", key, true)
...