Question

Ok this seems so silly but I’m having some trouble getting this to work. I want to do an @DbColumn() or @DbLookup() to another database. Same server – BUT it’s in a folder. And I can’t get a result. The view of the database in question is sorted by the first column.

I’m trying to populate choices of a combobox.

I’ve tried that built in @DbColumn():

var dbname = new Array("", "myfolder\\myDB.nsf");
return @DbColumn(dbname, "byCode", 0)

I’ve tried that with and without the “double slashes” and with column 0 and also column 1.

I’ve also tried the XSnippet :
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=dblookup-dbcolumn-with-cache-sort-and-unique

That would be my preferred method really because of caching. I tried creating a SSJS function:

function getFacilityList() {
  var dbPath = database.getFilePath().split(database.getFileName())[0];
  return DbColumnArray("","myfolder\\myDB.nsf","cache", "sort", "byCode", 0)
}

Which I think should have worked but did not.

Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

Try:

    var dbname = session.getServerName() + "!!" + "myfolder\\myDB.nsf";
    return @DbColumn(dbname, "byCode", 0)