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In what context can I use currentDocument.getParentId() ?

I want to show data from a parent document alongside the data on a response document. I am trying to use currentDocument.getParentId() as the hook back to the parent from the response.

When I use currentDocument.getParentId() at the time of creating the response document it has a value but when I open the response document later it has no value. The document is definitely a response and I get the same behaiour in a copy of the "new discussion" template.

IBM help

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.designer.domino.api.doc/r_wpdr_xsp_xspdocument_getparentid_r.html

I could store the value in a field but I thought that this would be neater.

Thanks, Sean

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Sean Cull - about 1 year ago | Permalink | Email | Viewed 317 times

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Hi Sean,

A couple of questions.

Is the document you're working with really a response document? (i.e. has it got the $Ref field)
If it has is the value correct?
If it isn't a response then that will be the reason it doesn't work. You may need to set the Form design to make sure that documents created using it are responses.

As a general rule I am switching away from using response documents in XPages. The overhead of looking up values using views is low enough that I prefer the flexibility of having everything as a "normal" document that just has references stored on it by me if I want some pseudo relational behaviour in my XPages.

Matt

Matt White - about 1 year ago | Permalink

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I use and like response documents because I like NotesDocument.getResponses() rather than rely on yet another view.

To answer your need: I think you'll need to instead use currentDocument.getDocument().getParentDocumentUNID()

currentDocument isn't a NotesDocument object, it's a NotesXspDocument object which is an xpages-specific wrapper around the NotesDocument. I don't know what currentDocument.getParentId() returns but I expect it refers to either the collection of NotesXSPDocument objects used on the page or whatever is above it in the XPages object model.

John Smart - about 1 year ago | Permalink

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