As in last weeks posting, I wanted to have help verbiage centrally maintained (without developer innervation) but always displayed update in the end user document (the final end user). Easy enough to do with text or on the web, but doing this with rich text (pictures and text markup) on the Notes Client was non trivial. Rich Text field are either “editable” or “computed” which mean it wasn’t going to update it if the document was in read mode.

So what I created was a pseudo Computed for Display Rich Text Field.

the field itselft was a straight forward Rich Text Computed field, named “RTCF_Help”, and with the lotus formula

@GetProfileField( “ApplicationProfileDocument” ; “HelpDocumentation”)

where “ApplicationProfileDocument” is the name on the Profile document and “HelpDocumentation” is the rich text field on that Profile document.

the trick is to destroy the item on the document so that even in read mode the field is recreated and re computed. I’m doing it before the document open and as it closes.

One thing that didn’t work was any attached file in the profile documents rich text, which looked like it was there but would open / launch (which is where last weeks post came from : SNTT : using LotusScript to launch file attachements (EmbeddedObjects) in Lotus Notes).

The fall back position for this would be have a Button that opened the Profile document in read mode like this

enjoy

I’ve add having a real Computed for Display Rich Text Field in the Lotus Notes Client to Idea Jam

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SNTT: a pseudo Computed for Display Rich Text Field in the Lotus Notes Client

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