I actually did try using a RichTextItem also.  I don't need to append it, I want to COPY an existing rich text item, on the screen, to a mail memo.

I'll try it again ...

Ann,

one thing I have done is changed from sending Mime to using RichTextItems for memo body.

var body:RichTextItem = doc.createRichTextItem("Body");

body.appendText("blah blah blah");

var body:RichTextItem = doc.createRichTextItem("Body");

var otherRTItem:RichTextItem = (RichTextItem) doc.getFirstItem("OtherRTItem");

body.appendRTItem( otherRTItem );

so, I added this:

var body1:NotesRichTextItem = doc.getFirstItem("Body");

var body:NotesRichTextItem = memo.createRichTextItem("Body");

body.appendRTItem(body1);

and am getting the error:  NotesRichTextItem.appendRTItem(lotus.domino.local.item) not found, or illegal parameters

var body1:NotesRichTextItem = doc.getFirstItem("Body");

needs to be:

var body1:NotesRichTextItem = (NotesRichTextItem) doc.getFirstItem("Body");

I get a red x next to that line of code, with "Encountered "<IDENTIFIER>"doc"" at line .....

Was expecting one of:

","...

"?"...

"||"...

and so on

JavaSCRIPT doesn't like casting.. and you are sure the first body1 item is RichText?  can you try getType() to verify?

And when I look at the document properties, my Body field is displaying as "MIME Part", even though I turned that property OFF on the underlying form.  I've removed the field from the xPage, and re-added it, since I changed the properties on the form. 

I have now tried

memo.copyItem(doc.getFirstItem("Body"));

and that doesn't throw an error, but the Body field is not copied either, IF there is an attachment in the field.  If there is only text in the field, that works fine.  Shouldn't "copyItem" copy any type of field??

I tried it with the following:

var body1:NotesRichTextItem = doc.getFirstItem("Body");
var body2:NotesRichTextItem = memo.createRichTextItem("Body");
body2.appendRTItem( body1 );

worked fine.  My body2 field had text and an attachment.  I received an email with the exact same text/attachment.

Thanks very much for testing that.  So, you did this from a button on an xPage?  What version of Domino are you running on your server?  And what data type is the Body field when it arrives in the email?

Server and client code are both 8.5.3.    Javascript is indeed in a button on a XPage.  Delivered memo's BODY field is type RichText.  Hope that helps.

My client is still 8.5.2 (I have no control over that).  My saved mail document has four Body "fields", but only the first one is getting emailed.  That shouldn't matter, I know Notes breaks fields up into pieces sometimes.  But the big difference is that the data type of the Body field is MIME Part.

What are the properties of your Body field on the form bound to your xPage?  Mine is editable Rich Text, display using HTML.

This may be the issue.  I didn't use a datasource on the XPage.  I merely looked up another document in the DB used that doc's rich text field and then created a new memo, appended that RT Item and then sent.

I use "currentDocument" all over the place for hiding buttons, fields, lots of things.  This may be a stupid question, but without binding, how do you hide things?  I'll create a sample xPage without binding it and see what happens.

BTW, I tried "copyAllItems" and I do get a Rich Text body, but it's always blank.

I have a view with 1 document.  That document was created with a form that has 1 rich text field.  The document has some text and an attachment.  So I get the document from the view, append the RT Item to my memo to be sent..

try {
var docView:NotesView = database.getView("All");
var doc:NotesDocument = docView.getFirstDocument();
var memo:NotesDocument = database.createDocument();
memo.replaceItemValue("Form", "Memo");
memo.replaceItemValue("SendTo","Michael Sava/Watson/IBM");
var body1:NotesRichTextItem = doc.getFirstItem("Body");
var body2:NotesRichTextItem = memo.createRichTextItem("Body");
body2.appendRTItem( body1 );
memo.send(false);
} catch(e) {
print(e);
}

You're using an existing document, where I'm using a newly created one, that the user is filling out.  Well, if all else fails, I can run an agent to email new replies after they're saved in the database.  That may be the easiest solution, actually.

I have created a LS agent that creates a new mail memo, and use appendRTItem there.  It fires when documents are created or modified, and checks for a flag that I've set in the button on the xPage.  The agent composes the email, sends it and resets the flag on the document so it isn't sent again.

Success!  Thanks again for all your help, it was invaluable.