DocumentContext (NotesAgentContext - JavaScript™)

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For an agent activated Before New Mail Arrives, the in-memory document is the email that is about to be delivered. Because the agent is activated instantly for each email as it's about to be saved into the mail database, each time the agent runs you are working with a single unsaved document. The UnprocessedDocuments property in AgentContext will not return any documents for this agent type.

For an agent run from a browser with the OpenAgent URL command, the in-memory document is a new document containing an item for each CGI (Common Gateway Interface) variable supported by Domino®. Each item has the name and current value of a supported CGI variable. (No design work on your part is needed; the CGI variables are available automatically.) For an agent run from a browser with @Command([RunAgent]) or @Command[ToolsRunMacro], the in-memory document is the current document. In the case of WebQueryOpen, this is the document before Domino® converts it to HTML and sends it to the browser; in the case of WebQuerySave, this is the document before Domino® saves it. If the form on which the document is based contains a field named the same as a Domino-supported CGI variable, the in-memory document also contains the value of that variable. (You must explicitly design the CGI variables into the form, for example, as hidden fields.) See Table of CGI Variables in Application Development with Domino® Designer for a list of the Domino-supported CGI variables.

For scheduled agents, before mail arrives, after mail arrives, or any arent running on a Domino® server and not invoked through a web browser, this property returns Nothing because there is no current document. For such agents, use UnprocessedDocuments instead.

Through the C or C++ API, an external program can create an in-memory document, then run an agent. The agent can use this property to access the in-memory document.

The save method immediately updates the document represented by the Document object returned by DocumentContext. For an agent working on a selected document in the Notes® client, you must save before exiting to preserve any changes. For an agent called from a browser, any changes go back to the browser when the agent exits; you probably do not want to save before exiting, but let the browser handle the changes.

You cannot use the encrypt and remove methods on the Document object returned by getDocumentContext, nor use the compact method on the Database object that contains the Document object returned by getDocumentContext.

Language cross-reference

DocumentContext property in Java™ Session class