About This Code
Brief Description:
Prohibit Document Deletion Based On Field Values
Contributor:
Andrew Jones
Last Modified:
17 Jun 2002
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Code / Description
This example assumes a form containing a keyword field named 'FormName'.
The two choices for this field are:
Do Not Delete | N
Delete | Y
Place the following in the Database Script:
Sub Querydocumentdelete(Source As Notesuidatabase, Continue As Variant)
Dim DocsDelDC As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim DeleteMe As Integer
Dim doc As notesdocument
Set DocsDelDC = Source.Documents
Set doc = DocsDelDC.GetFirstDocument
While Not(doc Is Nothing)
Continue = True
'Never delete these docs per the following criteria.
If doc.FormName(0) = "N" Then
Continue = False
Print "One or more of the documents selected may not be
deleted."
Messagebox "You Can't Delete Me . . . ", 48, "NaNa NaNa Boo
Boo"
Exit Sub
End If
Set doc = DocsDelDC.GetNextDocument(doc)
Wend
End Sub
Usage / Example