Yes and no. It all depends how many documents you expect the view to contain. If it's 1000s then you can see there's a huge performance hit. If it never more than a few hundred, then you can use the NotesViewNavigator class and then the CreateViewNavFromCategory method.
If you have lots then you can make the search formula for the .search() method as complicated as you like. You can mimic a categorised view with a search formula.
Yes and no. It all depends how many documents you expect the view to contain. If it's 1000s then you can see there's a huge performance hit. If it never more than a few hundred, then you can use the NotesViewNavigator class and then the CreateViewNavFromCategory method.
If you have lots then you can make the search formula for the .search() method as complicated as you like. You can mimic a categorised view with a search formula.