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Status No Plans to Implement
Workspace Domino Designer
Categories LotusScript
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2023

Allow clicking an action button programmatically

We have several situations in which it would be very useful to be able to start a mail in the user's mail database from a different application.

As an example: relevant mails are stored in the Project database (moved/deleted from the mail db). When a reply is to be sent, i.e. when the user clicks Reply in the Project database, I'd like to put the mail back in the mail database and activate the corresponding Reply button in the Memo form. The Project database has only a very simple copy of this Memo form without the functionality to reply or transfer mails.

It would only seem logical to extend the UI model with Buttons and methods to interact with them.

PS In LotusScript or Formula Language please (it is possible to do some fiddling with buttons in JavaScript)

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  • Guest
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    Mar 22, 2023

    Yes, sure I can create a reply with LotusScript, but how is that better? I do not want to copy the entire Memo form into the Project database, nor all the libraries involved. I'd prefer to leave all that in the mail database. I just want to operate the Memo form from a different application. If buttons retain their (Internal) names between mail template versions, nothing will break, assuming there were a method like NotesUIDocument.getButton(bName).click() or an array Buttons or Actions that can be searched. NotesUIWorkspace.EditDocument already gives me the NotesUIDocument of the opened document, why not use it properly?

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    Thomas Hampel
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    Mar 21, 2023
    Based on the comment I’m closing this idea with no plans to implement, but please continue to vote formit if you think it should be done
  • Guest
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    Mar 21, 2023

    I'm not sure why you would want to do it this way. The minute someone changes a template it could all break. A better approach would be to perform the actions you want, creating the reply etc. with some Lotusscript, which is totally possible.