What the view applet does for Web applications

With the view applet, Web users can:

• Resize columns with sliding panes
• Collapse and expand views without the browser regenerating the page
• Select multiple documents
• Scroll vertically to view additional documents in the view
• Press F9 to refresh the view
• Press DEL to mark documents for deletion from the database

When you embed a view in a form, subform, or page, you can display the embedded view as an applet.

1. Open a view.

2. Choose Design - View Properties to open the properties box.

3. Click the Advanced tab.

4. In the "For Web Access" section, select "Use applet in the browser."

To display an embedded view applet in a Web application

You can enable an embedded view as an applet independently of the element it is embedded in.

1. Open a form or page.

2. Place the cursor where you want the embedded view to display.

3. Choose Create - Embedded element - View and select the view you want to embed.

4. Choose Element - View Properties to open the properties box.

5. Click the Info tab. In the Web Access field, specify whether this view should display as an applet by choosing one of the following:

"Using Java Applet" indicates that the view applet is used in this embedded view regardless of the view's setting.

"Using HTML" indicates that the view applet is not used regardless of the view's setting.

"Using View's display property" indicates the view's settings are used for this embedded view.

The view applet provides limited support for fonts. Since current versions of the Java Developer's Kit (prior to SDK 1.2) provide very limited support for text fonts, mapping between the IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) Designer font set and the font set supported by a specific Web browser is constrained by the SDK supported by a browser. This can sometimes produce inconsistent results across different Web browsers. For best results use one of the following font faces: Courier, Helvetica, or Times Roman.

Note At this time, the view applet does not support DBCS.

To program a view applet

Use these @commands to program a view applet.

@command	Description
ViewCollapse	Collapses the selected document
ViewExpand	Expands the selected document
ViewCollapseAll	Collapses all documents
ViewExpandAll	Expands all documents
ViewRefreshFields	Refreshes view Upon refresh, the view applet does not delete documents marked for deletion.
MoveToTrash	Causes currently selected documents to be marked for deletion
EmptyTrash	Deletes documents that are marked for delete
Folder	Moves or copies the selected documents to a folder
RemoveFromFolder	Removes the selected document from the current folder

See Also

Displaying views in Web applications
Creating an embedded view or embedded folder
Designing views
Creating a standard outline view

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