SNTT : Don’t hard code your Selectedable Years in a Lotus Notes dialog box.

By Ian | August 13, 2009

Hard coding is bad, bad , bad. Very bad, okay? (see Avoiding Hard Coding of Group Names).

Here’s a quick and dirty way to have a drop down dialog which selects the “Year” and not be hard coded.

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currentYear := @Year(@Now );
@Text(currentYear-1) :
@Text(currentYear) :
@Text(currentYear+1)

which results in a multip value list of (for this year) “2008″ : “2009″ : “2010″

and then make the default value

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@Text(@Year(@Now ))

and, of course, you could easily extended this forward or back additional year values if needed.

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