Author: andrea

Some documents with web bookmarks appear in a Notes view. How do you open a bookmarked page bypassing the opening of the corresponding Notes document?
Two solutions follow: one uses Notes magic, and the other the InViewEdit event.

Notes magic

1. Create a Dummy form, used for doing nothing (it sounds weird but works)
2. Dummy: for preventing document creation, it should have a field [SaveOptions]=0 (text /computed for display)
3. Dummy: for preventing form opening, it shoud have a sentence Continue = False in the QueryOpen script
4. View: for inhibiting the default behaviour, in the FormFormula object write “Dummy”
5. View: put the formula @UrlOpen( Bookmark ) into the QueryOpenDocument formula

now, if you double click the Bookmark document, the page (just it) appears in a new window

(revised text from my own comment 12351627 at Experts-Exchange)

InViewEdit event

Something special happens if an editable column shows a value as an icon: The SAVE_REQUEST type of the InViewEdit event is triggered as soon as the user clicks on the icon.

Sub Inviewedit(Source As NotesUIView, Requesttype As Integer, Colprogname As Variant, Columnvalue As Variant, Continue As Variant)
' This view has one editable column, which is for display of an icon.

     ' Define constants for request types
     Const SAVE_REQUEST = 3

     ' Define variables
     Dim db As NotesDatabase
     Dim doc As NotesDocument
     Dim ws As New NotesUIWorkspace
     Dim caret As String

     ' Get the CaretNoteID - exit if it does not point at a document
     caret = Source.CaretNoteID
     If caret = "0" Then Exit Sub

     ' Get the current database and document
     Set db = Source.View.Parent
     Set doc = db.GetDocumentByID( caret )

     ' Select the request type
     Select Case Requesttype

     Case SAVE_REQUEST
          Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace
          w.UrlOpen doc.URL( 0 )
          Continue = False

     End Select
End Sub

(revised text from my own comment 12738085 at Experts-Exchange)

If your server is Win32, you could use the following function to put a page in a string. It’s based upon a service of the MSXML library, which installation is an easy task (and maybe it’s a service already running)

Function GetPage( url As String ) As String
     Dim objHttp As Variant
     Set objHttp = CreateObject( "Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP" )
     Call objHttp.Open( "GET", url, False )
     Call objHttp.Send()
     If objHttp.status <> 200 Then
          GetPage = "FAILED (status: " & objHttp.status & ")"
     Else
          Dim contentType As String
          contentType = objHttp.getResponseHeader( "Content-Type" )
          If contentType = "text/html" Then
               GetPage = objHttp.responseText
          Else
               GetPage = "Not HTML (type: " & contentType & ")"
          End If
     End If
     Set objHttp = Nothing
End Function

(revised text from my own comment 12271511 at Experts-Exchange)