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Brief Description:

Utility for removing "ghost" fields in a form's design note

Rating:

Contributor:

Dallas Gimpel

Category:

Design Elements, Lotusscript

Type:

Utilities

Notes Version:

R6.x, R7.x

Last Modified:

19 Apr 2009

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Code / Description

Posting this in response to this thread:

Use the agent in the attached database to remove a variety of "ghost" items that remain on a form's design note after a field is deleted by way of the Notes Desiger client or as a result of the use (or misuse) of TeamStudio's CIAO client.

Modified 2006-04-14:

Agent now excludes "OriginalModTime" internal field in order to prevent attempts to remove it.
A call to the Sign() method of NotesDocument class is now made prior to saving the form note.

Usage / Example

Code Attachments

GhostFieldKiller.zip (40 Kbytes)

Comments

Posted by Dwight Wilbanks on 03/04/2005 10:03:01 PMBad Link

Could you repost the link?

Posted by Dallas Gimpel on 03/05/2005 10:51:49 AMRe: Bad Link

The link is a document link - maybe the url will be better:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedweb/2795064ca028939d85256fb9002ef50e?OpenDocument

Posted by Marleen Overkamp on 10/22/2005 11:43:46 AMThank you

I noticed those "ghost" items a long time ago, and I was thinking about writing a utility like this myself (removing those items manually is tedious and boring). Now I don't have to do that anymore. Nice work!
Some remarks:
* I would replace line 60 by something like " If Strcompare(Left(strItemName$, 1), "$") <> 0 Then " (instead of " If Not(Left(strItemName$, 1)) = "$" Then " which somehow works but looks a bit strange)
* After changing a form with the agent and opening it again in the Designer, the message "This document has been altered since the time it was signed" appears in the status bar. A simple " Call docDznNote.Sign " just before the save solves this.
* When using this tool, developers should be aware it does not remove custom fields starting with a "$" (logical, because otherwise the standard Notes fields would be removed, too). These fields must still be removed by hand or (if some naming convention applies) a option like the "CIAO fields" option can be created.

Posted by Andre Guirard on 06/27/2007 10:55:27 AMI don't understand how to use this download...

... it doesn't appear to be an NSF or a ZIP -- what do I do with it after I download it?
I'd like to see your code because it sounds like something we should be doing when we save the note in Designer.

Posted by Dwight Wilbanks on 06/27/2007 11:15:50 AMFile has been renamed

Im not sure what the original name was, but, the file is a zip, just rename it.

Posted by Dallas Gimpel on 07/05/2007 07:28:32 PMoriginal file name was GhostFieldKiller.zip . . .

It was added by way of a Notes client . . . not sure why it ended up like that.

Posted by s p s on 04/17/2009 05:21:31 AMCan't extract

Could you re-attach this file as even after renaming to a .zip file it is corrupted.
NB: The above weird naming usually occurs in Notes when you attach two files with exactly the same name to the same document.

Posted by Dallas Gimpel on 04/19/2009 09:44:16 PMdone . . .

Sorry - I no longer have easy access to a Notes client and was unable to do it via browser. The file was not "corrupt" though . . . I just detached it, gave it a "zip" extension and it opened up. In any case, I've re-attached it and checked with a browser. It's definitely readable now.

Posted by Ric Garrett on 02/10/2011 11:06:23 AMextract issue solved

Windows XP did not recognize the compression method. But WinZip (from CNET Downloads) was able to extract a usable .nsf file.