Thursday, July 30, 2009

How to make inviewedit more user friendly and useful

The ability to edit Lotus Notes data at the view level is a cool feature that has been around for a while. Recently while searching for some old code I found a prototype I designed for addind date pickers, text boxes, and dialog list to the inviewedit options.See Below:



The premise is that for any dialog/radiobutton/checkbox fields the answers are in a separate field on the doc I call choices:


THe code is very simple and the sample db is here. Let me know if you have any questions
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  1. AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    Hi John,

    Thanks for the cool inline edit.
    I downloaded the nsf, when clicked on New Checklist action button, "Invalid or Non-existence document" error pops up. Reason is there is no "Checklist" form to compose. can you pl. check at your end?

    thanks,
    rharan

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  2. John CoolidgeJuly 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    OK my fault for not testing old code. Try nw

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  3. AnonymousMarch 22, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    Thanks you very much John,
    Really helpfull! its working for me!

    Venkatakrishna

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  4. AnonymousAugust 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM

    Hi John,

    I'm slowly building developing skills to make a fairly complex Lotus Notes database in our office more user friendly. I was able to start using Inviewedit on an embedded view, and really wanted to be able to have a picklist, like in your example database. As I worked on it though, I ran into problems with the KeyPress in your Inviewedit script.

    I'm sure its my niavety, but is this something that would be easy for me to resolve?

    ERROR: (View): Inviewedit: 59: Not a sub or function name: KEYPRESS

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Chad

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  5. John CoolidgeAugust 7, 2012 at 10:49 AM

    Chad. Are you using the viewedit script library? Also this was written in a long time ago in 32 bit windows. Never tried in 64

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  6. AnonymousAugust 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM

    I did copy that to the Script Library and am currently using 32 bit XP. I just know enough to get myself in trouble.

    I do regularly meet with our developer, so I'll run it past him.

    I work in an Attorney's Office, so we're always trying to make data entry easier for Attorney's. Inviewedit would be awesome, particularly in this one form/embedded view I'm currently working on. I'm surprised there aren't more examples online.

    Thanks,
    Chad

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    1. John CoolidgeAugust 7, 2012 at 11:17 AM

      Did you sign the database with an id that can run all types of lotusscript? if you did, ping me at my firstname dot(.) lastname @ g m a i l dot(.) c o m

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