@DbLookup is not valid outside of the Notes client context and cannot be accessed via this method. Tough beans. Normally you follow a pattern something like the following when you're looking for something conceptually like @DbLookup. I'm posting this in LotusScript and you'll have to translate that into perl. I haven't use the OLE interface to perl so I don't want to just "wing" it.

If you follow that it's just (a) get the view, (b) find document(s) that match your criteria, (c) do something with them. Easy peasy.

If you need something faster/better then either (a) write an interface to the C or C++ API DominoPerl, (b) use the Java API (which works nicely) or (c) don't do it.

 Const C_VIEW = "People"
 Const C_KEY  = "Marvin Martian/IT/SomeCompany"
 Const C_ITEM = "Fullname"

 Dim S As NotesSession
 Dim Db As NotesDatabase
 Dim View As NotesView
 Dim Doc As NotesDocument
 
 Set S = New NotesSession
 Set Db = S.CurrentDatabase
 Set View = Db.GetView( C_VIEW )
 Set Doc = View.GetDocumentByKey( C_KEY, True )

 If Doc.HasItem( C_ITEM ) Then
     Print C_ITEM & ": " & Doc.GetFirstItem( C_ITEM ).Text
 Else
     Print C_ITEM & " Doesn't exist!"
 End If

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Equivalent OLE code *might* look like this but you'll need to try it out for your self. In general you'll need to check out the LotusScript object model to see what is available.

 use constant C_VIEW => "People";
 use constant C_KEY => "Marvin Martian/IT/SomeCompany";
 use constant C_ITEM => "Fullname";

 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Win32::OLE;

 my $notes = Win32::OLE->new('Notes.NotesSession')
              or die "Can't open Lotus Notes";
 my $db = $notes->GetDatabase(@{&C_DB()});
 die "Database was not opened" unless $db->IsOpen;
 
 my $view = $db->GetView( C_VIEW );
 my $doc = $view->GetDocumentByKey( C_KEY, -1 );

 if (defined $doc) {
     print C_ITEM . ": " . $doc->GetFirstItem( C_ITEM )->Text() . "\n"
+;
 }
 else {
     print C_ITEM . " Doesn't exist!\n"
 }

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In reply to Re^2: Accessing a Lotus Notes Database by diotalevi
in thread Accessing a Lotus Notes Database by scoombs

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