I hope someone can help me with this development question about preventing documents changing.

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Subject: I hope someone can help me with this development question about preventing documents changing.

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Application Development

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.2

Reproducible: Always

First a couple symptoms I have noticed:

1) If I open Lotus Notes and open a message from that originated from the internet, I can close it and it is still exactly the same with same fields/objects the same. But if I open the message, make one change and save it, the message goes through some kind of conversion process because attachments move from being $FILE objects to being part of the message body. I would think that by adding one letter to the message body that the save would only affect the body field. Now if I open the message it still looks as I would expect but if looking at the properties you can defintely see a difference in the fields.

2) Programmatically I have noticed something very similar. I can open the message and see the fields and values as I would expect. I can copy the message from one database to another and it still looks the same using a function like NSFDbCopyNote(). But if I open the message, add a new field, and then save the message other fields get changed. Again, it may look the same when opening with a notes client but why do the fields change just because I want to add a field?

Things I have tried:
I have opened the message, closed the message - no change.

I have opened the message, saved the message, closed the message - no change.

I can copy the message from one database to another and side by side the fields look the same so no change.

But if I make the slightest change to the document and save it, the message seems to go through some kind of conversion process. I do not know everything that has been changed but I can say the $FILE objects disappear the the attachments data becomes part of the message body.

And to my main question:
How can I copy a message from one database to another, and add a simple text field to the newly copied document without the other fields being changed automatically by I am guessing some kind of internal process within Domino?

From a user point of view if the message still opens and looks the same then they would probably not care. But from a programming perspective it does make a difference and so I am just wondering there is some way to prevent this conversion process from occurring.

Thank you

Feedback number WEBB8LHMX7 created by ~Maria Brevelusonakoi on 09/08/2011

Status: Open
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