Sometimes a document doesn’t appear where you expect it to in a particular view. Tracking it down can be a laborious task. But it doesn’t have to be. There is a little tip that’s not as widely known as it should be. It’s nothing new, certainly dating back to R6 and probably even back to R1.
If you highlight a document in view 1, hold down Ctrl while opening view 2, not only will view 2 open but it will open with the same document from view 1 highlighted. No more hunting through the view to try to locate it.
If the same document is not highlighted, it’s because it is not in the view.
Then, as a developer, it’s a case of inspecting the view selection formula to work out why.
This tip has probably saved me days during my Notes development and support career.
Indeed an oldie. Just make sure the second view is NOT collapsed, or it won’t work.
Note that it also works with multiple docs selected.
Thanks Paul – never knew that one 🙂
Excellent
Yes, this is an awesome tip.
It’s broken in 8.5.1 though, and broken in 8.5.3+ for multiple docs. Hopefully fixed in 8.5.4/9.0
Yes, I found SPR JEIN6YU57M fixed in 8.5.2. But it looks like this wasn’t ported back into earlier 8.5.x codestreams.
It looks like a similar regression from R7 was fixed in 8.0.2 http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/fa60e7221d43ecd4852574c5004207d2?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Ctrl
I guess this is the APAR you’re referring to for multiple docs http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO62551. It’s reported for 8.5.2 saying it will be fixed in a future release, but I guess it hasn’t been fixed in 8.5.3.