Examples: PickListCollection method

This example displays the documents in the By Author view of a database named ProgWork2 in a modal window then displays the Subject items from the selected list.

Sub Click(Source As Button)
  Dim session As New NotesSession
  Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace
  Dim db As NotesDatabase
  Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection
  Dim doc As NotesDocument
  Dim item As NotesItem
  Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
  Set collection = workspace.PickListCollection( _
  PICKLIST_CUSTOM, _
  True, _
  "snapper", _
  "ProgWork2", _
  "By Author", _
  "My Dialog", _
  "Please select a document or two." )
  If collection.Count = 0 Then
    Messagebox "User canceled" ,, _
    "Subject item on the document(s)" 
  Else
    Set doc = collection.GetFirstDocument
    While Not ( doc Is Nothing )
      Set item = doc.GetFirstItem( "Subject" )
      If ( item Is Nothing ) Then
        messagelist = messagelist & "None" & Chr(10)
      Else
         messagelist = messagelist & item.Text & Chr(10)
      End If
      Set doc = collection.GetNextDocument (doc)
    Wend
    Messagebox messagelist ,, _
    "Subject item on the document(s)"
  End If
End Sub

This example displays the documents in the By Author view of a database called ProgWork2 in a modal window and saves the selected documents to a folder called My Folder when the user clicks OK.

Sub Click(Source As Button)
  Dim session As New NotesSession
  Dim workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace
  Dim db As NotesDatabase
  Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection
  Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
  Set collection = workspace.PickListCollection( _
  PICKLIST_CUSTOM, _
  True, _
  "snapper", _
  "ProgWork2", _
  "By Author", _
  "My Dialog", _
  "Please select a document or two." )
'The following line puts the selected documents in a folder
'called My Folder. The value False means that a folder will
'not be created if one does not already exist.
  Call collection.PutAllInFolder( "My Folder", False )
End Sub