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Lotus

Getting the current document from a button in an embedded editor

Consider the following scenario:
a lotus form containing an embedded view and an embedded editor, the 2 embedded controls are linked together according to targeting by linking an embedded editor to an embedded view.
The embedded editor contains a button that tries to get the current document (often called uidoc) with the code:

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument

Set uidoc = w.CurrentDocument

End Sub

but this code returns the NotesUIDocument of the document linked to the embedded editor and not the NotesUIDocument linked to the main document.

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Lotus

Passing information about UI objects to a java agent

The lotus java agents don’t have classes to manage the UI objects, such as in LotusScript with the classes NotesUIDocument or NotesUIView.
It’s true that you can find several info about the Notes Client Java UI API in internet, but these classes are not officially supported.
In this post I explain 3 ways to obtain the currently open view or document inside an agent java.
You take advantage of the LotusScript UI classes that can easily manage the UI objects, and you pass them to the java agent using the variables in the notes.ini or a profile document or a notes document.