a bit of a damp day today so i took the time out to try and solve a problem a
couple of us have been tussling with for a while. [note – if you aren’t into
domino the following will not make the slightest sense]
we have a requirement to dynamically load one of (potentially) many computed
subforms. of course when you compose a new document, the subform formula is
only evaluated the once which makes the whole issue quite problematic. this is
a pure web application over quite slow connections so we need to minimise the
number of form refreshes. the best i have come up with is to load all of the
potential subforms initially, each in it’s own div and then removing the html
from each div so that we can put it back in using javascript at a later point
if necessary. this has several downsides (including a large initial download
and a load of unnecessary fields stored on the final document) and so i have
been playing with the idea of using the _doClick function on a pop-up window to
try and force a recompute of the subform formulae by changing the form name. no
luck so far but i think the idea has potential.
it’s nice to be dealing with a purely technical problem rather than a political
or architectural one for a change.
