Esteemed Monks,

I'm looking at accessing my Lotus Notes Datebook through perl and would like to know how I can visualize the document structure of an appointment (i.e. show all its attributes and their respective values).

Is there a ready-made function to do this

• with appointment documents in particular?
• with mailbox (i.e. "Appointment" or "Memo") documents in general?
• with any documents (maybe by looking at the structure of the "form" associated with the document)?

The (fully functional) code I'm currently using is the following, which finds a number of appointments in my calendar and prints their titles:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Notes::OLE;
use vars qw( $SERVER );

$SERVER=''; # leave empty if querying local client
my $mailfile='mail\myshortname.nsf';
my $maxdocs=50; # 0=all
my $maxshowdocs=5;

my $db = $S->GetDatabase($SERVER, $mailfile);

my $docs=$db->Search( "Form = \"Appointment\"" , $DT, $maxdocs); # "Ap
+pointment"(calendar) or "Memo"(email)
my $count = $docs->Count;
print "found ",$count," docs.\n\n";

# show the appointments' titles
for(my $i=1; $i<=$maxshowdocs and $i<=$count ;++$i){
   my $doc=$docs->GetNthDocument($i);
   if($doc->HasItem('Subject')){
      print $doc->GetFirstItem('Subject')->{Text},"\n"; 
   }else{
      print "No Subject\n"; 
   }
}
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I'm just hoping I don't have to write code to individually check every one of the attributes in these tables the same way as with the subject attribute above. (Not to mention possible multivalue and/or structured attributes... do they use those in Notes?)

Thanks for any suggestions!

Michael

Update: added clarification on "mailbox documents" and on first sentence.

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