Display Rich Text fields in a view

Ever wanted to show part of a Rich Text field in the column of a view. I'll bet my grandma that you have. Well this is possibly the easiest/only way; I can't believe I didn't know about this simple @...

2 Jan 2001 | Keywords: Rich Text, Column, Abstract, Views | Read »

Control the look of the "No documents found" message

Are you fed up with having made your site look really nice only to be shocked when you open a view and the, ugly looking, "No documents found" message stares back at you? ...

12 Oct 2000 | Keywords: CSS, Style | Read »

URL Syntax for advanced field level searching

OK, so we should all know by now that you can search a view by appending ?SearchView&Query=something to the end of its name in the url. What do you do though when you want to get a little more advanc...

17 Oct 2000 | Keywords: url, search | Read »

Auto-Launch a file attachment

In the Notes Client there is an option when designing a form to tell it to launch the first attachment when a document is opened. How about doing this in the browser? I've thought of two ways of doin...

24 Oct 2000 | Keywords: file, attachment, launch | Read »

Quick edit document link

When in a view in the Notes client it is easy to open a document in edit mode. You can either press Ctrl + E or right click the document and choose Edit. In the browser these are not options. Your st...

9 May 2001 | Keywords: edit, document | Read »

Control the look of Domino view tables

If you look at a view through the browser, Domino renders it as a table, over which you have no control. If you want to control the formatting of the table, but don't want to create a template form o...

28 Nov 2000 | Keywords: column, table, border | Read »

Lock access to views

Databases often end up with many views. This is usually because different people want to see different data in different ways. Well, what if you don't want some people to be able to see certain views...

22 Nov 2000 | Keywords: access, read, search | Read »

Display all documents from a view

Thought I would write a quick one about something useful I just learnt, before I go and forget what it was. It is yet another one of those things that they neglect to inform us developers about in th...

31 Jul 2001 | Keywords: view, count | Read »

Processing multiple documents from a view

As Domino has matured over the years, the number of features only available to the Notes Client developer has decreased. For example, one feature of the Lotus Notes client is the ability to select do...

28 Jan 2003 | Keywords: View, checkbox, GET, POST, process, Agent | Read »

Towards the Perfect Web View

Large Notes Views on the web can be slow and cumbersome. This article explains how to make them as light as possible, as well as adding extra functionality, such as export to Excel and sortable columns....

11 Mar 2004 | Keywords: Views, lightweight, export, excel, sortable, columns | Read »