IdeaJam(tm) : Reference to another uidoc

Domino Designer / : Reference to another uidoc

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:27:15 +0000

Author: Rob Goudvis
Tags: development
Idea:

Wouldn' t be nice when you could get hold to the uidoc pointer of another document? Suppose the following case: you have a parent document and a child document. In thsi child you change some attribute and you want to reflect this in the main document. when the main document is in edit mode there is no problem, but when it is not, there is a problem. Of course you could save the modified attribute on the back-end. Bu t you want to see the new value on the front-end too.

When you have a pointer to the parent's uidoc available you could use this to modify the front-end of the parent.

re: Reference to another uidoc

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:21:50 +0000

Author: Dirk Stelloh
Comment: This scenario does not sound robust to me.

re: Reference to another uidoc

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:22:53 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Comment: One of the weaknesses in the current DOM used by LS is that you can only get a handle on a single UI document even though many documents may be open inside the Notes client. I would like to see a way provided to access a list of all open UI documents.

re: Reference to another uidoc

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Author: Charles Robinson
Comment: I agree with Peter. You can sort of get around this by using framesets and navigating through them, but it makes for some tortuous application logic.

re: Reference to another uidoc

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:48:55 +0000

Author: Hendrik Jan van Meerveld
Comment: I'd prefer a method for notesDocument that would publish the notesDocument to the notesUIDocument.
Something like notesDocument.updateUIDocuments() or notesDocument.publish().

re: Reference to another uidoc

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:22:01 +0000

Author: Craig Wiseman
Comment: In general I agree with this, but it needs to be thought out in pretty good detail...

Maybe you should probably be able to make two calls:

1. One to NotesUIDatabase to get a collection of all UIdocs open for that database, and,

2. One to NotesUIWorkspace to get a collection of all open documents across all databases.

I have to think about the security issues with #2.

re: Reference to another uidoc

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:59:04 +0000

Author: Rob Goudvis
Comment: @5.1: indeed, this was my idea too, to have a collection of all available front-end classes

@5.2: of course the access rights have to obeyed