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I have a form in which I have an editable authors field. When I open that form in Lotus Notes client the authors field gets populated with current user name. If I set the Default value of the authors field to name of authors field (either in computed or editable mode) then this does not happen. I am using Lotus Notes 8.5.3.
Why does this happen? Is this a normal behavior. I guess, this is something very, very basic but I have encountered this for the first time.
That behavior is normal, and it makes sense when you think about it. The value in that Authors item will be the list of users/groups that have access to the document. If the field wasn’t editable or didn’t get altered in any other way and a user comes in, creates a doc, and then saves, that user would then no longer have access to it (assuming Author rights here).
So it makes sense to put the creator of the document in that field so they will have access to it by default.