.Domino Framework

By default Notes only supports the dragging/dropping of documents into a folder.  The following is a technique developed for an application allowing the simulation of dragging a collection of documents into a view:-

• For each view to support drag/drop create a new (dummy) folder.  The design of the folder does not matter as it is never opened/used.
• Modify any outlines used to link to the dummy folder instead of the original view
• Place the following code into the QueryOpen event of each dummy folder forcing the associated view (or page with embedded single category view) to open instead of the folder when selected from the outline.

Sub Queryopen(Source As Notesuiview, Continue As Variant)
    Dim UIW As New NotesUIWorkspace
    Continue = False
    Call UIW.SetTargetFrame("NotesView" )
    Call UIW.CurrentDatabase.OpenView("Viewname" )
    or
    Call UIW.OpenPage("Pagename" )
End Sub

• Modify the database's Postdragdrop event to evaluate continue = false, preventing documents being placed into these dummy folders.
• Finally, add the code to the Postdragdrop event to perform the  desired task for a collection of documents being "dropped in the view".
  

 

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.