Adding actions to navigators

A navigator object (such as a button) that switches to another navigator is a graphical way to guide users through a series of decisions to reach the information they need.

This navigator displays a bar chart created in 1-2-3®.

To find out more information, users click a bar that represents an area's sales. Each bar in the first navigator is a hotspot rectangle that takes users to the Weekly Details by Country navigator. When users reach the second navigator, they see another bar chart that displays weekly sales by individual country. Clicking a bar in this chart opens the view for the country (for example, View by country\France). Each bar in the second navigator is a hotspot rectangle whose "Open a view or folder" action specifies the appropriate country view.

This shortcut navigator allows users to click the icon instead of using the Create menu to create a new Action Item document.

The action for the icon is "Run a formula" with the formula:

@Command([Compose];"";"3. Action Item")

When users double-click the navigator object (for example, a button), this script opens the current database:

Sub Initialize
     Dim session As New NotesSession
     Dim db As NotesDatabase
     Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
     Call db.Open("", "")
     Messagebox(db.Title & " " & db.FileName)
     If db.IsOpen = True Then msg$ = "open" Else msg$ = "closed"
     Messagebox("Database is " & msg$)
End Sub