Lotus Notes & HTML

[mcvpjd3]

Hi, hopefully someone here can help me. I'm trying to do some HTML (can only be HTML) to launch Lotus Notes and open a specific Database on a server. The DOS command line to do this is;

c:\Notes\Notes SERVERNAME!!/Directory/database.nsf

I can get HTML to open notes, but how do I get the Server and database parameters on to the end and get it working?

Thanks

 

[Kactus]

Hey there,

A couple of things to consider first:
- Do you have the HTML process running on your Domino server? If not you'll need to start it 'cause without it a Domino is just plain old Notes.
- Do you have a copy of the Domino Designer Client for Notes installed? You'll need it if you want to make your Notes databases (well, Notes 'Flat Files') usable through a browser.

The way you appear to be calling the database is unusual. Are you trying to:
1. From an HTML page
2. call a batch file
3. that loads Notes
4. and then a specific database?

If so, assuming there's no good reason for doing it this way, there is an easier way (there's ALWAYS an easier way!).

With your HTML process running on your Domino server start your designer client and open the database in question for editing.

Go to the view you want to be the default and then click the IE Preview button in the top-right corner (assuming you want to preview in IE). When IE starts you'll have an address displayed in the address bar of your browser which you can copy and paste into your HTML as a link.

Depending on how clever you are with your Notes database you can take care of security without any problems because that's one of the things Notes does easily and it transfers to the web quite nicely.

Hope that helps.

Kactus

 

[mcvpjd3]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately we can't do it this way. It's a little more complicated, we have some software (and I use the term software loosley) that manages a library in our company. That all runs within it's own "web server" and dynamically produces HTML. One of the features of this is that it can point to data from other sources (Word Docs, spreadsheets, etc...). It also can run command line stuff. We basically just want it to launch a database on Notes. The problem being that the library system is based on one site where as the users can be anywhere and therefore we need to specify the name of the server to launch the database from.

 

[Kactus]

Oh. I'm surprised you don't get a link that looks something like:

http://Servername.domain.com/directory/database.nsf/viewname?OpenView

 

[Kactus]

By the by, I've just noticed there's a Lotus Notes Domino forum on this site. If you try there you might get the answer you need.

Good luck
Kactus