In a lotus form you can hide the fields enabling the check box “Hide paragraph from Web browser” in the window of the properties of the field but in this way the field is not generated as a hidden field, i.e. a html tag input with attribute type=”hidden” is not generated and you can’t access to its value from a browser, for example using javascript.
This is a different behavior from that one using a lotus client where you can still access to the hidden fields using lotusscript and formula language.
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The javascript and css code used in a lotus form can also be useful in other forms, and so it is best to save it only one time in a shared place.
The pages works well for this purpose and in this post I explain how to create page containing JavaScript code and css and attach it to a form.
Buttons for a form in a Custom Control
There are standard buttons that are often added to a form that perform the basic functions (edit, save, close) that usually you put in a form.
The code in this post is a Custom Control that you can add to a XPage connected to a lotus form to place the buttons Edit, Save and Close.
In the XPage under the label “Data” configure “Data sources” to the form lotus and under the label “XPage” set the “Next Page” as follows:
Opening a document in a dialog box
If you want to open a document in a dialog box you can use two methods:
Debugging the Terminate event in a Form
I discovered that you can not debug the Terminate event of a form with Lotus Notes Designer 8.5.3 and I do not understand why.
I’m sure that once you could.