Add A Notes View to the Sidebar - Part 2

March 20 2008 06:00:00 AM Add/Read Comments [16]
In the post Add A Notes View To The Sidebar, I showed you a simple way to add a view from a Lotus Notes database to the Notes 8 Sidebar.   In this tip, I'll explain a more advanced way of adding the view, which allows you to hide the navigator.

First go to the Notes view you want to add, then click on the "Configure a Widget from Current Context " toolbar icon.

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Select "Open a Notes view", and below you will see the notes:// URL, which we need to edit a little bit.

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First remove the text "BorderFrame?OpenFrameset&view="

Notes:///86256EE80056B831/BorderFrame?OpenFrameset&view=7B318CA4F443730680256CE6006278FD

then add "?Openview&Hidenavigator" to the end of the URL.

So you end up with something like:
Notes:///86256EE80056B831/7B318CA4F443730680256CE6006278FD?Openview&Hidenavigator

Click "Next", which takes you to the "Configure A Component" screen.   You can provide the title which will be displayed in the title bar of the Sidebar panel.

Click "Display as a sidebar panel", and click Finish.

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Now you'll see you Lotus Notes view, without the left side navigator.

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I hope in a future release, there is just a simple check box that says "Do not display the view's navigator" ;-)
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