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Date Range Parameters for Views

Asked by: BenBarnett

We have events that are being shown in calendar and outline type views.  We need to allow the customers to enter a date range as parameters and then to limit the view to those events that are within that date range.

This is such a common data processing model that I can't believe that Notes does not have this capability, yet from everything I read, the only way to accomplish this is to copy all events within the date range to a folder and then use the folder as a data source for the view.

Is there a way to do it with viewcollections?  Another more straightforward method?

Any assistance offered would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

BenBarnett      bbarnett@bpd.treas.gov
Jeff Schaff     jschaff@bpd.treas.gov

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Answers

 

by: ArunkumarPosted on 2000-12-20 at 04:53:36ID: 35059

Hi Benbarnett !

Have one field that will explode the date range supplied in two fields.

Have this list of values field as the first column and show multiple values as separate entries.

That solves the problem.  One document will be visible in all the date range !

Good Luck!
-Arun

 

by: ArunkumarPosted on 2000-12-20 at 04:56:52ID: 35065

Use the @Explode function to split the date range to a list of dates.

 

by: BenBarnettPosted on 2000-12-20 at 06:47:55ID: 35424

Arun.

Thanks very much for your response but as a Notes newbie, I really don't understand how to implement the suggestion.

We need to show a prompt type box where customers can enter 2 dates and then upon entry, refresh the view to only show documents where a document field (event date) is between those two dynamically entered dates.

Do you still think that your suggestion will work to do that?

You stated that "One document will be visible in all the date range !".  We will have multiple event documents that will be in the date range.  Does that change your response?

Any more information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

BenBarnett    bbarnett@bpd.treas.gov

 

by: ArunkumarPosted on 2000-12-20 at 18:38:06ID: 37741

My solution remains the same.  You can enter the same two dates as well as multiple events those will show in the calendar as expected by you.

-Arun

 

by: snocrossPosted on 2000-12-26 at 12:51:06ID: 47330

Do you have to do this programatically?  Can the user just use the built in search capability?  I don't know what version you have but I have R5 and I can go to VIEW/SHOW SEARCH BAR and specify date ranges by clicking on MORE and specifying as many date criteria as I want... If it needs to be programatic then I would use the folder option.  I do this in my web apps and it works great.  I've never done it for a Notes client though.

-Snocross

 

by: ArunkumarPosted on 2000-12-26 at 13:12:08ID: 47369

Welcome Back my Friend !

 

by: snocrossPosted on 2000-12-26 at 13:17:15ID: 47381

Thank you.  Things seem to be working ok with EE today... maybe I'll keep coming back now!

 

by: BenBarnettPosted on 2001-01-08 at 12:05:00ID: 94903

Test comment since my last lengthy comment was lost!!!!

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2004-02-09 at 10:02:45ID: 10312482

BenBarnett,
No comment has been added lately (1127 days), so it's time to clean up this TA.
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by: padillrrPosted on 2009-07-27 at 12:53:51ID: 24955315

How do I do this?
Have this list of values field as the first column and show multiple values as separate entries.

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