APPLICATION DESIGN

Creating a profile form
1. Create a form with fields to hold the values you want to store in profile documents.

2. Choose Design - Form Properties and deselect "Include in Menu."

3. Save the form.

4. Do not include the form in any view.

5. Create a button, action, or agent that uses either the LotusScript NotesDatabase GetProfileDocument method or UIWorkspace.EditProfile, or the Formula language @Command([EditProfileDocument]) to create or access the document.

In IBM® Lotus® Notes®, you can create or edit a profile document by using @Command([EditProfileDocument]) or @SetProfileField. In Web applications, use @SetProfileField to create profile documents. Note that @Command([EditProfileDocument]) does not work on the Web.

You can use @SetProfileField and @GetProfileField to set and retrieve field values in profile documents in both Notes and Web applications.

If you prefer scripts to formulas, use LotusScript routines to create and edit profile documents. The EditProfile method of the NotesUIWorkspace class produces the same result as the @Command([EditProfileDocument]) command used in a formula.

To set or retrieve field values for a profile document with a script, use the GetProfileDocument method to access the document. You can then retrieve values from the document or set new ones, just as you would with any document.

Use the IsProfile property for the NotesDocument class to determine if a NotesDocument object is a profile document. Use the NameOfProfile property to retrieve the name of the profile document.

Note You cannot delete a profile document using an @command or @function. Use LotusScript if you must delete a profile document.

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