When determining which forms to customize using Lotus iNotes agents, keep in mind how often the form is used. Design your agents to run only on the specific page you want to act on. An agent that acts on a form or subform that runs constantly may impact performance adversely.

Create the agents

You create Domino Web Access agents in IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer by adding two NOTESVARS to the dictionary for the form you want to customize. The NOTESVARS specify the names of the QueryOpen and QuerySave agents (in the user's mail file or in the Mail (R85) template (MAIL85.NTF). In Domino Designer, edit the form or subform you want the agents to act on, adding the following lines between the <NotesDictionary> tags:

<NOTESVAR NAME={$$QueryOpenAgent} VALUE={'(agentname)'}>
<NOTESVAR NAME={$$QuerySaveAgent} VALUE={'(agentname)'}>

To add QueryOpen and QuerySave agents to the Memo, Reply, and Reply with History forms, open FORMS85.NSF and add $$QueryOpenAgent and $$QuerySaveAgent NOTESVARS to the s_mailMemoDictionary subform. Using the names testopen and testsave, for example, the edited subform would look like this:

<NotesDictionary><NOTESFIELD NAME={MailOptions}>
<NOTESFIELD NAME={Form}>
<notesvar name="CalendarOwner"
Initialvalue={@Name([Canonicalize];@DbCommand("Haiku";
"h_GetProfileField"; "calendarprofile"; "Owner"))}>
.
.
.
<NOTESVAR NAME={$$QueryOpenAgent} VALUE={'(testopen)'}>
<NOTESVAR NAME={$$QuerySaveAgent} VALUE={'(testsave)'}>
</NotesDictionary>

Related topics

Configuring Lotus iNotes for users
Customizing the look of Lotus iNotes
Domino and Notes Information center

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