I posted this on Notes.net but I know many people don't visit there anymore, so I'm repeating it here.
I'm having a rather frustrating problem that it appears many other people here have also encountered. I have a Names field that I use to feed an Authors field. The Names field contains canonical names that include @domain at the end. This causes the names not to work in Authors fields.
For example, I'll select my name in a Names field, and it looks like Charles Robinson/DOMAIN on the screen. When I save the document it refreshes and my name gets expanded to Charles Robinson/DOMAIN@DOMAIN. An Author field which is Computed from this Names field gets set to "CN=Charles Robinson/O=DOMAIN@DOMAIN".
Does anyone know what controls whether the domain gets appended, and how to make it stop?
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Charles, the only way I could replicate this behavior was by enabling 'Look up addresses on document refresh' option in the names field, do you need this?
I don't believe I do, I'll take a look at that and see if it's the culprit. Thanks for the suggestion. :-)
Just yesterday, I saw the same thing.
The names field used the directory (dropdown button) but only a few names would include the domain.
I think it happened because those names resolved using the personal address book and the address in there contained the domain.
Since you set the authors field using code, here's a simple way to prevent the problem: @Left(namesfield+"@"; "@")
Since this is a list and it's coming from another field I fixed it by using something like this:
namelist := "[Admin]" : NotifyField : OtherAuthors;
@Transform(namelist; "name";
@If(@Contains(name;"@"); @Left(name;"@"); name))
I'm fairly certain now that the "look up addresses on document refresh" option, I'll fix that this evening. :-)
Yep, that was it. I wonder why that's not documented somewhere?
this is great information Charles,
I'd be interested to know if you have any foreign domain documents in your Domino Directory. I see this behaviour pop up quite a bit when there is a Domino fax solution in the mix and most of those use a foreign domain document.
Paul, yes, there is a foreign domain being used for Esker Fax for Notes.
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