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Status Under Consideration
Workspace Domino Designer
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2018

Make Information available in a view column of another document ( e.g. parent document from "$ref")

This is not possible yet and the document need to import or manage the fields from the parent document.

@GetDocField( $REF; Field1) does not work yet in a view column

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    Thomas Hampel
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    Oct 27, 2018

    Moving idea to product : Domino Designer

  • Guest
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    Oct 24, 2018

    This is a great idea. It would give the opportunity to store data with relations, without any duplicate data.

    It is no problem, that it costs some performance, because the indexer would "save" the looked up data within the view index like today.

     

    Example of a contact database:

    A person is related to a company document. Only by having the company unid key reference within the person document, one could having all needed company fields within a person view!

  • Guest
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    Oct 24, 2018

    You are right, the issue is similar to dblookup, but my intention was to enable the command GetDocField in a column, and that is a diffent command. If dblookup would be possible this would help indeed.

  • Guest
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    Oct 24, 2018

    So you are essentially asking for something similar to @DBLookup in view column, but without the performance cost, right ?

    I think that there is a similar idea about the ability to do something like SQL "JOINT" statement in view, maybe these ideas can be combined together ?

  • Guest
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    Oct 23, 2018

    That is a great idea, and contrary to a @dblookup should not wreak havoc on performance imho.

    Comment by Theo Heselmans