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Friday, February 17th, 2006

Thanks to Show and Tell Thursday in the Lotus blogger community I now realize that my self-taught (and borrowed) method of creating a button for 'Save and Close' in an application has really not been the best way to handle things.  I was previously executing these commands using the following code:

@Command([FileSave]);
@Command([FileCloseWindow])

Using these commands can lead users to confusing results if, for instance, the form doesn't pass a validation script.  The form that does not pass will still try to close, thus prompting another save and the end result is bad data and a confused/frustrated user.  If I were to have stopped, thought about this and then realized the ramifications of that perhaps I would have come up with this code myself:

@If(@Command([FileSave]);@Command([FileCloseWindow]);"")

 This code ensures that if the Save command fails for any reason (like a validation script) then the form does not try to close and the user is given the opportunity to correct the data....without all the confustion.
Thanks to False Positives (Ian Irving ) for the tip.

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