joshsteiner
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total lotus newbie - can i submit content to a notes server from an .html or .asp?
First a little background: i've agreed to try to help a client that I do ASP consultation for with a small Lotus Notes problem for them, problem is, i dont know much about lotus notes :) So any pointers you give would be greatly helpful.
Heres the deal:
my client is moving a lotus note based system to a internal web site. they aparently need have a subscribe button on the website to match the one on notes site, which i believe sends a message notes mailing list to subscribe the user. for the time being, the mailing lists will continue to be hosted in Notes. So is there an easy way for me to send the appropriate information to notes when the user clicks on a web form?
I know, i'm very short on details (which is not making my life pleasent right now :), here is the only code snippet i have received from them so far:
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Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim db As Notesdatabase
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
'send document to mail-in database
Set doc = New NotesDocument(db)
doc.form = "Memo"
doc.subject = "Profile Subscription Update"
doc.SendTo = "CIO-PaCT-Profiles"
doc.KeyID = 2926
doc.SubscribeValue = "Y"
Call doc.SEND(False)
Messagebox "Thank you! Your request has been sent."
End Sub
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so it looks to me liek this should be pretty straightforward. I've spent a few hours digging around here and elseware on the net and havnt found a real solid answere yet. i've seen mention of "web agents" and this posted on this formum:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/11678458/mailing-on-the-web.html
Run an agent via URL !
In this agent you can put your @Formulas like @MailSend.
<INPUT TYPE=button VALUE=OK
onClick="location.href='http://SERVER/DATABASE/AGENT_NAME?OpenAgent'">
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to make things worse, this is of course on a tight deadline (aint it always the way) ... so literally any help you can give me will be *greatly* appriciated... i can reciprocate some html/java/javascript/asp/j
-Josh
Heres the deal:
my client is moving a lotus note based system to a internal web site. they aparently need have a subscribe button on the website to match the one on notes site, which i believe sends a message notes mailing list to subscribe the user. for the time being, the mailing lists will continue to be hosted in Notes. So is there an easy way for me to send the appropriate information to notes when the user clicks on a web form?
I know, i'm very short on details (which is not making my life pleasent right now :), here is the only code snippet i have received from them so far:
---- snip ----
Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim db As Notesdatabase
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
'send document to mail-in database
Set doc = New NotesDocument(db)
doc.form = "Memo"
doc.subject = "Profile Subscription Update"
doc.SendTo = "CIO-PaCT-Profiles"
doc.KeyID = 2926
doc.SubscribeValue = "Y"
Call doc.SEND(False)
Messagebox "Thank you! Your request has been sent."
End Sub
---- snip ----
so it looks to me liek this should be pretty straightforward. I've spent a few hours digging around here and elseware on the net and havnt found a real solid answere yet. i've seen mention of "web agents" and this posted on this formum:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/11678458/mailing-on-the-web.html
Run an agent via URL !
In this agent you can put your @Formulas like @MailSend.
<INPUT TYPE=button VALUE=OK
onClick="location.href='http://SERVER/DATABASE/AGENT_NAME?OpenAgent'">
---
to make things worse, this is of course on a tight deadline (aint it always the way) ... so literally any help you can give me will be *greatly* appriciated... i can reciprocate some html/java/javascript/asp/j
-Josh
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(ASP as in the web language.)
ok, so on the server i need to create an agent with this code in it, which i can call from a http URL like the one above...
one thing i dont see how to do is how would i identify which user is clicking the subscribe button and hence calling the agent?
ok, so on the server i need to create an agent with this code in it, which i can call from a http URL like the one above...
one thing i dont see how to do is how would i identify which user is clicking the subscribe button and hence calling the agent?
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The problem is that the messagebox cannot be processed there.... but you could use PRINT to return an url to launch, like:
PRINT "[http://www.....]"
or print an entire HTML page to the client, with a button that brings the user back into the appliction:
PRINT "<HTML>"
PRINT "<HEAD>"
etc.
PRINT is a lotusscript instruction, a BASIC dialect, just like the existing code.
You could also set the agent to use normal lotus notes code (like @Mailsend) but that has no options to create / send a document in the background.
ASP as in the web language/protocol that I know nothing about, or as application service provider?