Andre Guirard submitted a great idea to the SearchDomino tool shed, a way to read/set document fields from view without writing a agent for each field you what to change.
He has code for R5 and R6, however I found I small boo boo in the R5 code in that
REM "Formula for R5";
choices := @DocFields;
fieldName := @Prompt([OkCancelEditCombo]; "Field Name"; "Enter FieldName."; ""; choices);
FIELD DUID := @text(@DocumentUniqueID);
oldValue := @GetDocField (DUID;fieldname);
newValue := @Explode(@Prompt([OkCancelEdit]; "New Field Value"; "Please
enter new value (use ";" for multivalues -- don't put space after ;).";
@Implode(@Text(oldvalue); ";")); ";");
adjValue := @If(@IsNumber(oldValue); @TextToNumber(newValue); @IsTime(oldValue); @TextToTime(newValue); newValue);
@If(!@IsError(adjValue); @SetField(fieldName ; adjValue);
@Prompt([YesNo]; "Change field value"; "New value not of same type as old value. Set field to text?");@SetField(fieldName ; newValue); "")
He had done oldValue := @GetField(fieldname); ,but there is no @getField function in R5.0X. So I’ve attempted to correct this by using FIELD DUID := @text(@DocumentUniqueID);
oldValue := @GetDocField (DUID;fieldname);
Which now complies.
But I’m still not out of woods yet, Still not “working as expected”, since I’m not getting the old value.
On investigation I’m getting a “@SetDocField and @GetDocField cannot access the document currently being computed”. Frell!
It is a slick generic development tool, just needs some more work.