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Expert: Paski K. Paskaradevan
Date: 8/26/2008
Subject: Action Buttons in LN emails
Question
Hi Paski,
I have a situation where I want to notify people to review documents and would like to place a button in the e-mail message that adds a reminder to their calendar. So, if the due date is Sept 18, I'd like them to get a popup on the 17th to remind them. This date, of course, will always change depending on the due date, so I'd like to be able to easily adjust it. I've used vb and javascript, written a few access, excel and word macros. Any help or suggestions you can give me would be appreciated.
Answer
Hi,
This has to be done using lotus script. If you know vb, lotus script is very similar.
What you need to do is create a button and write code so that when clicked, it creates a calendar entry in the users workstation. You will set the dates. The trick is to set the alarm to the value you want. The alarm is set in the preferences. Everyone has a value (I have set it to 15 minutes - i get a warning about a meeting starting 15 minutes before until I click done). If you are happy with the user's alarm setting, then ok. If you want to set the value to something other than the default, open the calendar form in the designer and see which field has this value and set the field value to whatever you want using the code.
The alarm value field is an editable field so it can be done in the front end as well.
Good luck.
Paski
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