Friday, February 02, 2007

Edit Lotus Notes document without an agent

If you manage Lotus Notes application, there is always a time when you will need to edit a document to change a value. That say, you are not always able to do so even with full administrator rights (the application may not allow you to do it via the user interface)

One solution is to create a simple agent that will do the work for you but it ends being painful!

Another solution is to use the very useful tool "Edit Document Fields"

http://www.chadsmiley.com/chadsmiley/home.nsf/htdocs/Edit_Document_Fields_History

The tool is setup by adding a new button to your Notes toolbar and sets its formula to the code given. You're now all set and can edit any field in any document!

Note that there are version for R4.x, R5, R6.x and R7