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More on generating dynamic Web reports
Tips submitted by
Zann Dougan and Kevin Vanriper
Level: Beginner
Works with: Notes/Domino
Updated: 06/02/2003
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Editor's note: In the April issue of LDD Today, we published a tip describing how to generate dynamic Web reports using the &SearchView&Query URL command. Some of you responded with additional information, so this month we publish that additional information regarding the original tip.
First, to use the method described in the tip, "Generating dynamic Web reports," you must first full-text index the database from which you want to generate the reports. This may seem obvious to many of you, but we neglected to mention it when we first published the tip.
Second, according to original tip, the URL syntax for generating the reports is as follows:
http://servername/database.nsf/viewname?SearchView&Query=(FIELD+Fieldname+=+Fieldvalue)
We stated that you could append more fields to the URL using this syntax; however, Domino has a maximum number of characters for URLs. Using this method, you may quickly reach the maximum URL length. However, you can shorten the URL using a different syntax. Instead of using:
FIELD+Fieldname+=+Fieldvalue
you can use:
[fieldname]=text
For example, the following URL:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/Date?SearchView&Query=(FIELD+Authoredby+=+Tara%20Hall)
produces the same search results as this shorter URL:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/Date?SearchView&Query=[Authoredby]=Tara%20Hall
The plus (+) signs are not needed around the equal (=) sign, so you can save four characters for each field that you append to the URL.
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