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Creating an Empty Document Collection - Undocumented Code

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Contributor:

David J Montalvo

Category:

Lotusscript

Type:

Miscellaneous

Notes Version:

R8.x

Last Modified:

19 Dec 2008

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Code / Description

Have you ever wanted to build your own custom document collections? I have, imagine my surprise when I came across this undocumented code within the R8 Mail Template which lets you do just that:

CreateDocumentCollection()

This handy little timesaver allows you to quickly initialize an empty collection. Here is an example:

Dim MyCol As NotesDocumentCollection
Set MyCol = db.CreateDocumentCollection()

You are now free to add documents to your empty collection.

Note: Before this method the only way I knew of to achieve this was to "getalldocumentsbykey" using a key that does not exist.

Usage / Example

Comments

Posted by Marko Bonaci on 12/24/2008 05:17:34 AMMore about this

http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/3FAD44895EB1665E8625738400731694?OpenDocument

Posted by Darius Burger on 09/29/2009 09:15:01 AMAwesomeness

Hi David -
Very cool! Will be handy as hell! :-)
Regards,
Darius

Posted by Tim Paque on 12/09/2009 06:53:52 PMAre you Kidding Me!

I've had to do crazy stuff to get around this like:
Dim DC as NotesDocumentCollection
Set DC = DB.GetProfileDocCollection("Chickens")
Now, this was fast and reliable, but kinda weird ;-)

Posted by Trond Nielsen on 01/24/2010 03:14:24 PMGlad someone found this one.

I sure spent hours coding around this one. Very welcome info.

Posted by Thomas Arnold on 03/23/2010 08:09:15 AMhelpfull

this helps, did with view.getdocumentbykey (with a key that does not exist), but now it's easier