An application I am working on has the need to change view selection formuale from time to time and we wanted to avoid the need to deploy a new version of the application each and every time such a change was needed due to the high cost of the change control/release process (man I love SDLCs....)
Given the NotesView class has a read/write SelectionFormula property I have been able to develop an extension Domino.Reflection namespace to coordinate the activities associated with modifying the view selection formulae at run time. A special Admin form is provided in the application which allows an administrator/developer to select a view and then change the view selection formulae directly. I have developed a demo of this functionality that will be included in the .Domino Framework database when it is posted on the OpenNTF Web site.
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1 Randy Davison Permalink We use a view action button which builds the desired selection formula in a string (called "formula") based on responses to ws.Prompt(s). We then use the view.SelectionFormula property like
so:
Set uiview = ws.CurrentView
Set view = uiview.View
view.SelectionFormula = formula
We just tell the few users who are able to change the selection
criteria to close and reopen the view and voila!
Hope this helps.