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With Formativ 1.6 and earlier versions, a dynamic user interface is possible with an HTML portal or HTML dialog. You could, for instance, encode rules into a group of checkboxes using JavaScript.

Alternatively, you could divide your dialog’s logic among a series of Formativ dialogs, approximating the ‘Wizard’ user interface metaphor. For example, choices made in dialog 1 would affect whether dialogs 3 and 4 appear.

The forthcoming release of Formativ, due in early 2004, includes a new WYSIWYG form designer. In addition, the new forms make it possible to respond to user ‘events’ dynamically (as in your checkboxes example). If you wish to learn more about Formativ 2.0, please send an email to support@advansyscorp.com.

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Always happy to help.

Advansys Support

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A menu separator line is just a menu item. The following is from our response to your earlier post:

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Formativ does not provide a means to delete GroupWise menu items. I will add your request to the Formativ Enhancements database.

However this is possible using the GroupWise Custom Third Party Object (C3PO) API. You can find out more about developing a C3PO in the Novell Developer Kit at Novell DeveloperNet. I believe the API function you require is CustomizeContextMenu.

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Advansys Support

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Formativ does not provide a means to delete GroupWise menu items. I will add your request to the Formativ Enhancements database.

However this is possible using the GroupWise Custom Third Party Object (C3PO) API. You can find out more about developing a C3PO in the Novell Developer Kit at Novell DeveloperNet. I believe the API function you require is CustomizeContextMenu.

I hope this helps.

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I have done some experimenting with .ItemSaveMessage, and it appears to work correctly in my test applet, which assumes a message is selected in the GroupWise message list:

option explicit

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)

  dim oDlg
  dim oMsg

  set oMsg = Client.ClientState.CommandMessage
  if IsObject(oMsg) then
    set oDlg = Utilities.NewSaveFileDialog
    with oDlg
      .Title = "Save '" & oMsg.Subject & "' As"
      .Options = ofOverwritePrompt or ofHideReadOnly or ofShareAware
      .FileName = oMsg.Subject & ".gwm"
    end with

    if oDlg.Execute then
      call GroupWise.ItemSaveMessage(oMsg.MessageID, oDlg.FileName, fmtAnsitext)
    end if
  end if

  set oMsg = nothing
  set oDlg = nothing

End Sub

I have set the Integrations for this applet to add a button to the main GroupWise toolbar.

If you can replicate the incorrect behaviour with this test applet, then I think the problem is to do with your environment. In that case, please send your system configuration to us at Support@advansyscorp.com. You can obtain the information via the main GroupWise Help menu: select About Formativ. When the About box appears, select the Configuration tab, then press the ‘Copy to Clipboard’ button. Finally, paste the contents of the clipboard into your message.

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We think there is a bug in the GroupWise Token ItemSaveMessage, when using file format fmtAnsiText. This is on the basis that it works correctly for the other format.

You may wish to experiment with saving to either format directly from the GroupWise client, looking to see whether message data is lost this way too.

I will notify Novell about the bug in ItemSaveMessage – if they don’t already know.

As for alternatives to finding a solution:

• Manually post-process the WordPerfect format to plain-text. This is probably inefficient.
• Switch to the GroupWise Object API, using, for example, the Message object to access individual properties, including the message body. Obviously this requires much more work than using ItemSaveMessage, and you will need to design a suitable file format for the message properties.
• Combine the Token and Object APIs. Use ItemSaveInfo from the former to create a file, and use the latter to append the message body.
• Advansys supplies a solution that I think is similar to yours – Formativ Message Saver Pack. Details of this product are here.

Advansys Support

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I suggest you take a look at Mailbox View, which can be downloaded from Cool Solutions here.

Mailbox View displays a list of messages in a Formativ Portal, where each item includes basic message properties like Subject, Date and From. In particular, subroutine StoreMessageInList in the source code obtains the relevant properties of a message.

You will find there is a plentiful supply of example Formativ applets – ready to run solutions – at Cool Solutions and at Formativ Applet Central. These examples are very useful for a Formativ beginner to study.

In addition, you can study the complete list of message properties and methods at the GroupWise Object API reference here. Note: this is the base Message object; there are specializations (with additional properties & methods) for message types like Mail and Appointment.

Hope this helps.

Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Glad to hear you’ve been successful. We are happy to help.

Advansys Support

[Support 1]

You are correct, and this is a bug. I have written a test applet that verifies this behaviour of .Checked with .ShowCheckBox = True. I have also noticed that setting .Checked = False in code makes no difference. Source code of my test applet is listed below.

This issue has been recorded in the Formativ Bug Database. Our engineers will look at fixing this for the forthcoming release, version 2.

'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
option explicit

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)

  dim iDialogResult
  dim iIsDone
  dim oControlDlg
  dim oDateTimePicker
  dim oLabel

  ' Create control box & controls...
  set oControlDlg = Utilities.NewControlBoxDialog
  oControlDlg.AutoSize = True
  oControlDlg.Caption = "My caption"
  oControlDlg.Title = "Configuration Settings"
  oControlDlg.Button1Caption = "OK"
  oControlDlg.Button2Caption = "Cancel"

  set oDateTimePicker = oControlDlg.AddDateTimeControl
  oDateTimePicker.ShowCheckBox = True
  oDateTimePicker.Date = Date

  set oLabel = oControlDlg.AddMultiLineLabelControl

  ' Execute the dialog until we're done...
  iIsDone = False
  Do
    iDialogResult = oControlDlg.Execute
    Select Case iDialogResult
      Case BTN1 ' OK
        if oDateTimePicker.Checked then
          oLabel.Caption = "Checked"
        else
          oLabel.Caption = "Not checked"
        end if
      Case BTN2 ' Cancel
        iIsDone = True
    End Select
  Loop Until iIsDone

  set oDateTimePicker = nothing
  set oLabel = nothing
  set oControlDlg = nothing

End Sub
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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I believe that using the selection object (.ActiveDocument) in Word is unreliable. Also, neither VBScript nor Formativ know the Word constant wdReplaceAll.

The following code sample should be a useful alternative.

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Const wdReplaceAll = 2
 
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Mainline processing
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)
 
  dim oRange
  dim oWordObj
 
  On error resume next
 
  Set oWordObj = CreateObject("Word.Application")
 
  if oWordObj is nothing then
    exit sub
  end if
 
  oWordObj.Documents.open("c:temptest.doc")
  oWordObj.visible = true
 
  Set oRange = oWordObj.Documents(1).Content
 
  if oRange is nothing then
    exit sub
  end if
 
  Call oRange.Find.Execute("%1",FALSE,TRUE, FALSE,,,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,"Argl",wdReplaceAll)
 
  set oRange = nothing
  set oWordObj = nothing
 
End Sub

[Support 1]

You will notice that the filter expression in the code sample includes the clause

  (SUBJECT CONTAINS ""test"")

which limits the search to email messages whose Subject contains the text “test”. 0 (zero) on the VBScript dialog indicates you have no such messages, but you can change this filter expression from “test” to any other text.

Indeed, as indicated by the examples of other filter syntaxes, you can filter on a range of message properties, as well as Subject.

Advansys Support

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We recommend that you use the latest version of Formativ. All versions are backward-compatible, so you can expect version 1.6 to improve on 1.5.

Unfortunately we do not have an applet for printing email without a Formativ Portal. I recommend that you install the GroupWise Enhancement Pack, as recommended in the System Requirements of the Formativ readme.txt.

Advansys Support

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There is a newer applet on Cool Solutions that I think might work better for you. CSV Address Book Importer takes a CSV file and imports to a GroupWise personal address book. This is an installer for the applet.

You can get Excel to create a CSV file from your Excel address book. Choosing from the main menu File | Save As…, then set the ‘save as’ type to CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv). Then follow the instructions included with this new applet.

If the problem you are getting continues, please send us your Excel address book, to support@advansyscorp.com

Advansys Support

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Thank you for your follow-up message that all is well.

I am glad to hear there was no problem after all.

Advansys Support

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It sounds like you want the required format for a MS Word ‘mail merge’ data source.

The following articles on the Microsoft web site may be helpful:

HOW TO: Design and Set Up Mail Merge Data in Microsoft Word 2000
HOWTO: Automate Microsoft Word to Perform a Mail Merge from Visual Basic .NET
Word 2000 Mail Merge Resource Center

In addition, I recommend you experiment with the Mail Merge feature in MS Word, to learn more about defining a data source.

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