What I've done before:

 

Create the document and save it, also set a field NotSaved to Y. When the document is opened, if it's saved then in the save button change that field back to Y. If the user clicks cancel then delete the doc. You could then run a clean up agent to clear any doc that was just closed without saving (there may be a way to clear these up on close, not sure). You can also update view selection formulas not to include any docs with NotSaved set to Y

 

 

thanks, but as I said it's important not to save the document. The other app is owned by other people, so no messing around with their design. All my code does is help to prefill some fields and leave all validation to the original app.

 

The solution I finally found is to put the doc creation and opening code in an agent. I cannot launch this agent directly from XPage even by using notes:// url (I get "Command not implemented" error), however I can use notes:// url to open another Notes native element such as a page, put a line source.close in the PostOpen event and in QueryClose call the agent. Kind of doing simple things the hard way, but at least it does what I need :-) Will try to figure out now how can I pass info which context doc to use, but I assume passing the url parameters should work well enough.

 

EDIT: Well a bit naïve from my side. @urlquerystring does not seem to work with Notes url. Some more hack needed :-)  I guess from XPages I cannot use notes.ini as well... can I? so have to pass the info through some data document.

Hi,

 

I don't know if you have already found your solution, but what if you use the notes.ini?

You can use session.setEnvironmentVar() in the XPage and set the values you need. Then you can easily access them in the form.

 

Hope this helps

Sven

 

Thanks Sven. This changes my idea about how XPages work.

 

I was pretty sure that the server side script executes on server, so setEnvironment will end up on server. But once I tried session.setEnvironmentVar() the value ended up in the client notes.ini.

 

But for my problem - I decided that it suits me very well to write a data document in the current database, then pass notes url command to open this document. And the form contains a code to close this document at once and from QueryClose run an agent providing this data doc as parameter.