Examples: ViewUNID property

Dim session As NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim rti As NotesRichTextItem
Dim rtnav As NotesRichTextNavigator
Dim rtlink As NotesRichTextDocLink
Sub Initialize
  Set session = New NotesSession
  Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
  Set dc = db.UnprocessedDocuments
  Set doc = dc.GetFirstDocument
  Set rti = doc.GetFirstItem("Body")
  Set rtnav = rti.CreateNavigator
  If Not rtnav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_DOCLINK) Then
    Messagebox "No doclinks in Body item",, "No doclinks"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  Set rtlink = rtnav.GetElement
  If rtlink.ViewUNID = String$(32, "0") Then
    Messagebox "Link does not have a view component",, _
    "No view"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  Dim linkDb As New NotesDatabase("", "")
  If Not linkDb.OpenByReplicaID("", _
    rtlink.DbReplicaID) Then
    Messagebox "No local replica",, "Cannot find database"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  Dim linkView As NotesView
  foundIt = False
  Forall view In linkDb.Views
    If view.UniversalID = rtlink.ViewUNID Then
      foundIt = True
      Set linkView = view
      Exit Forall
    End If
  End Forall
  If foundIt Then
    Messagebox linkView.Name,, "View name"
  Else
    Messagebox "Cannot locate view",, "No such view"
  End If
End Sub

Dim session As NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim rti As NotesRichTextItem
Dim rtnav As NotesRichTextNavigator
Dim rtlink As NotesRichTextDocLink


Sub Initialize
  Dim linkDb As New NotesDatabase ("", "")
  Dim linkView As NotesView
  Dim linkDc As NotesDocumentCollection
  Dim linkDoc As NotesDocument
  Dim foundView As Boolean
  Dim msg1 As String, msg2 As String
  
  ' Open the document containing the link
  Set session = New NotesSession
  Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
  Set dc = db.UnprocessedDocuments
  Set doc = dc.GetFirstDocument
  
  ' Get the doclink
  Set rti = doc.GetFirstItem("Body")
  Set rtnav = rti.CreateNavigator
  If Not rtnav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_DOCLINK) Then
    Messagebox "No doclinks in Body item",, "No doclinks"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  Set rtlink = rtnav.GetElement
  If rtlink.ViewUNID = String$(32, "0") Then
    Messagebox "Link does not have a view component",, _
    "No view"
    Exit Sub
  End If
 
  ' Find the view in the target database; get the handle to 
  ' the next view in the database
  If Not linkDb.OpenByReplicaID("", _
    rtlink.DbReplicaID) Then
    Messagebox "No local replica",, "Cannot find database"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  foundView = False
  Forall v In linkDb.Views
    If foundView Then
      ' get the next view
      Set linkView = v
      Exit Forall
    End If
    If v.UniversalID = rtlink.ViewUNID Then
      Set linkView = v
      msg1 = linkView.Name
      foundView = True
    End If
  End Forall
  
  ' Get the first document in the new view
  On Error Goto InvalidUNID
  Set linkDoc = linkView.GetFirstDocument
  
  ' change link
  rtlink.ViewUNID = linkView.UniversalID
  rtlink.DocUNID = linkDoc.UniversalID
  msg2 = linkDoc.Topic(0) & " in view: " & linkView.Name
  Messagebox "from document in view: " & _
  msg1 & Chr(13) & "to " & msg2, , _
  "Changing doclink"
  Call doc.Save (True, True)
  Exit Sub
InvalidUNID:
  Messagebox "Cannot locate document",, "No document"
  Exit Sub
End Sub