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    • Fabian Robok
    • Posted on Wed 23 Apr 2014

    A problem as old as the hills, but still (sort of) unsolved for forms/views applications.

    While the $$NavigatorTemplate solution is still as elegant as unintuitive and much better than most of the other hacks, there is one drawback, that has not been mentioned, yet: Navigators cannot be made public.

    That means, even if anonymous access is set to "No Access, read/write public documents", unauthenticated users will get an error.

    One could possible trick around this and use code to add the $PublicAccess field to the design note, but that's a hack within a hack and doesn't sound very robust to me.

    My current solution is to use the web launch option "Launch designated doclink" and to NOT paste a document link, but a VIEW link instead. Surprise, surprise: it works! The view link can be easily copied from the Notes client Edit menu.

    You probably see the potential. Being able to launch a view means, you can use a view template (that might or might just not display the chosen view). View and view template can then be made available to public access through the UI, if desired. I have successfully tested this in Domino 7.0.4 and 8.5.3.

    To me, the biggest disadvantage is, that you cannot really see in database ... oops ... application properties what has been pasted as a "doc" link. You can however use the "Go To Doclink" button to check.

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