Technote Number: 1085681
Problem:
This issue was reported to Lotus Quality Engineering and was fixed in Notes
4.6.7a Client.
Excerpt from the Lotus Notes and Domino Release 4.6.7a MU fix list (available
at http://www.notes.net):
Design - Formulas
SPR# DKAZ4H8REC - Fix a problem which caused @GetDocField to produce the error
message, "Invalid formula format: bad number of arguments," when placed in a
large formula expression. This regression was introduced in 4.6.7.
Supporting Information:
Examples:
This formula works fine:
Field x := @GetDocField( @Text( $Ref); "SomeField");
This formula results in the "Invalid formula format: Bad number of arguments."
error :
Field x := @Left( "SomeString"; @GetDocField( @Text( $Ref); "SomeField"));
Related Documents:
From the Notes help:
@GetDocField
Given the unique ID of a document, returns the contents of a specific field on
that document. The document must reside in the current database.
Syntax
@GetDocField( documentUNID ; fieldName )
Parameters
documentUNID
Text. The unique ID of a document.
fieldName
Text. The name of a field on the document, enclosed in quotation marks. If you
store the field name in a variable, omit the quotation marks here.
Return value
fieldValue
Text or text list; number or number list; time-date or time-date range. The
contents of the field on the specified document.
Usage
This function does not work in column or selection formulas. More >
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