About This Code
Brief Description:
Creating a random/unique number
Contributor:
Andrew Jones
Last Modified:
17 Jun 2002
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Code / Description
Function uniqueRandom
Dim w As NotesUIWorkspace
Dim s As NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim view As NotesView
Dim getdoc As NotesDocument
Dim tmp As Variant
Dim tmp2 As String
Dim curDoc As NotesDocument
Set w = New NotesUIWorkspace
Set s = New NotesSession
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
Set view = db.GetView("(SavedNumbers)")
Set curDoc = w.CurrentDocument.Document
uniqueRandom = ""
retry:
tmp = Evaluate ("@Integer( (9999 - 1000 )*@Random + 1000)",curdoc)
tmp2$ = Cstr(tmp(0))
Set getdoc = view.GetDocumentByKey(tmp2$,True)
If Not getdoc Is Nothing Then
Goto retry
End If
uniqueRandom = tmp2$
End Function
Usage / Example