thanks for the exclusion tip Jake :)

I think you are exactly right.

I spent 14 years as a professional Sound Engineer/music programmer before changing full time to programming in the late 90's

Strangely, most of the music you listen to is mixed on pretty horrible cheap speakers, Yamaha NS 10's about UKL 150 in my day I think, or Auratones for especially nasty sound. - might have changed now, but I doubt it.

In saying that I am very fussy about the sound of my home speakers.

I have Bose Companion 2's on my computer, and use Bose Companion 3's as the sound system for my Audio Visual set up.

I got tired of looking at big speakers, and the Bose system sounds huge.

One of the most important things is that the amp matches the speakers, and with the Bose all in one systems they obviously do.

Even if you've got a hasItem call that you're not showing us, there is still an edge case where hasItem returns true but getFirstItem returns null. Your final code has actually worked around this edge case, but it's worth pointing out.

The problem occurs when the Body item in the document is a MIME Part but there is no actual content in it. If you look at it, you will just see MIME headers and separators. If this is the case, and convertMIME = true is in effect, the result is that hasItem sees the item, but getFirstItem forces the conversion to rich text and an optimization kicks in that deletes the item from the in-memory note!

Your fix does get around this problem by forcing convertMIME=false, but IMHO it's still best practice to check for null.

MIME vs RichText is one of my biggest headaches. Throw Notes Native Encryption into the mix and you can start to see why it gets to be a pain in the...

The part that makes it less than obvious is the separate stages of a) getting the document and b) opening it. While it might seem silly, it saves enormous amounts of processing and memory in some situations.

As with Dragon, welcome to my world.

I'll update the above post with the solution in a mo.

Damn you Notes!

Yeah, what's with convertmime? Do you need to toggle it off/on when reading fields as well as when setting them?

Should the first code block above use it?

notesSession.ConvertMIME

For Lotusscript, i think it's .Type like itemType% = notesItem.Type

it's not .GetType() (JAVA)

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Unless you really insist on doing this yourself, I'm wondering if the service http://aremysitesup.com/ could be a solution?

I'm like you, trying to avoid such mini projects for a lack of time and they only bring trouble. Plus, you'll be responsible for it eternally. I'd definitely look to outsource the problem to the above service.

As for the driving school project, I'd definitely take it on to look for some modern front-end development learning opportunities, for example in HTML5, responsive web design, things like that. In addition, I can highly recommend submitting your designs to conceptfeedback.com and fivesecondtest.com for some free peer advise.

And no, I'm not affiliated with any of these services :)

Thanks