Lotus Notes NAB - Adding a field

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I have a project that I need to put an Internet Address and also add a new field called ShortName for all groups in the Notes NAB.

I am able to put the values and save the document , I tried with a doc.save and a computewithform. This is the Group form.

After the change, people in that group are no longer able to access the application.

Do you have an idea what I am doing wrong ?

User A is in group XYZ.

I added internetaddress xyz.com and a shortname text field xyzmigration

Application A is having an ACL with the group XYZ as editor. When User A tries to open the Application A, he get a not authorize. If I delete both values, User A is able to open the database.

Thanks for your help

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Are these users client or web users? – Duston
they are trying to access Notes DB via the client. They tried Ctrl-F5 to be sure to have the right credential. – Sébastien Boisvert
I wonder if it might be the name of the field you used? "Shortname" has special significance in Person documents, and while it's not on the Group form, when the ACL comes in to play, who knows what it's looking at. Could you try using a different field name and see if that's what it was? – Duston
I thought of that me too, I tried another field name and I had the same problem :( – Sébastien Boisvert
just to be clear - you both set InternetAddress field and Shortname field in the Group document? And that's all that takes to break it down? – Normunds Kalnberzins

3 Answers

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$ServerAccess view validates Group documents and omits any Groups that has Shortname field present.

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Normunds has the correct answer, but I want to add a suggestion: create a new group instead of modifying the existing group. I.e., if the group is "MyGroup", create a group named "MyGroup_Extended" and set it up with

  • Shortname = the value that you want
  • InternetAddress = the value that you want
  • Members = "MyGroup"

That way, you leave MyGroup untouched, but you still have a modified group document with the additional information added and the same member list.

And another thing: In order to make those groups that you already altered functional again, you should run a simple agent against all of the groups that does this:

FIELD ShortName := @DeleteField;
FIELD InternetAddress := @DeleteField;
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After the help of some answers that I got here. I checked the view $ServerAccess. The selection formula is checking for a field Shortname and that is what was causing my problem. I will create another field name and we will be able to use this field instead of ShortName. allfields := @DocFields; test1 := 0; test2 := 0; @For(i:=1; i < @Elements(allfields); i:=i+1; test1 := test1 + @If(@UpperCase(allfields[i]) = "LISTNAME";1;0)); @For(i:=1; i < @Elements(allfields); i:=i+1; test2:=test2 + @If(@UpperCase(allfields[i]) = "SHORTNAME";1;0)); SELECT (test1 < 2 & test2 = 0 &Type = "Group" & (@IsUnavailable ( GroupType)|GroupType="0" : "2":"3":"4")) & Form="Group" & @IsUnavailable($Conflict)
Thanks for your help.