Creates a short abstract of a text or rich text field. Simpler and more efficient than using @Abstract.

Note This @function is new with Release 8.

Syntax

@AbstractSimple( bodyFields )

Parameters

bodyFields

Text or text list. Any number of fields containing the text to abstract. May be text or rich text fields. If Notes/Domino cannot locate a field by name, it uses the string literal instead. Enclose each field name in quotes and separate multiple names with colons: "Sales":"Figures".

Return value

abstractedText

Text or Text List. Returns the first 100 characters or first 2 paragraphs of text, whichever is smaller. All newline and tab characters are converted into spaces, and all empty paragraphs (containing only a newline character) are ignored. If the parameter is a single field, a text value is returned. If the parameter is a list of field names, then a text list is returned with each list element containing the abstracted text of the corresponding field in the parameter list.

If a field parameter is of an invalid type, or can't be found, the text returned is the string of the field parameter.

Note If the behavior of @Abstract is desired, where the result is a single, space-separated, string of abstracted results, apply @Implode to the result of @AbstractSimple

Abstract method in LotusScript NotesItem class

Example
See Also

@Abstract

Glossary