Hyperlinking to a document in a Lotus notes Database

[OutlookLust]

In my previous post I explained my newness to Lotus, so I won't go into that again here. I simply want to know if it's possible to hyperlink to a document in a Lotus notes database, and if so, how.

Thanks,

jb

 

[pmonett]

It is, you just need to create the proper URL to get to it.

How to do that ? Good question. You need to know the UNID of the document, and the name of the database. With that information, you can construct something like this :

url = "

http://"

+ serverName + ".YourDomain.com/"+ fileName + "/"+docName

Oh, and you need the HTTP task to be running on the Domino server, else the URL will not be recognized for what it is.

Pascal.

 

[OutlookLust]

Pascal:

Thanks for the reply on this and my other post. I'm going to think through your reply to the other one for a while, so my follow-up on it will take long.

On this issue, though, between the time I posted and now I came up with a simpler solution, but I'm guessing it has shortcomings that make you suggest the alternative. The s imple code I wrote for the link was:

<a href="Notes://NS_US_HTV_TPP/852566B90072F7FE/8200C7E8AD639619852568A70059B207/D61C251FFEF132B485256732005BCF97">A document in our Lotus Database
</a>

At least in my simple little test, clicking this link opened the appropriate document.

What is the shortcoming of doing it this way over your way?

Thanks,

jb

 

[pmonett]

I just gave the basic formula. If you replace the file name by the Replica ID you get the same functionality, so there should be no issue there.

Pascal.