Re: Creating views in names.nsf

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The $Users view in the names.nsf does have the shortname sorted in the
first column.

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Hi folks.

I'll begin by describing the sort of problem I am dealing with. I have
written a web agent in LotusScript that pulls data (via ODBC) from a file
in our AS/400 server. One of the fields in the table that it pulls that
data from is a field for a user's login name for Domino (their short
name).
I would like to be able to retrieve the full name from names.nsf for any
given user's shortname that is stored in that database. Based on the
Designer help, @DbLookup requires that, in order to retrieve a column
value
from a row, the search key must be compared against the first sorted
column
in the view. However, there are no views in names.nsf that have the
shortname as the first sorted column.

Is there an easier/other way to retreive a user's fullname from names.nsf
based on their short name? If not, would it hurt anything in names.nsf, or
in Domino in general, if I were to create a new view myself within
names.nsf to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,

Brian A. Cline
G&P Trucking Company
Gaston, South Carolina
clib@gptruck.com
803.791.5500

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