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Do I need R7 installed to take advantage of Shared Columns?

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The Shared Columns in R7 are in fact regular views with only 1 column (the shared column itself) and with a special $Flags value ( ^ ).

In R7, when you edit a Shared Column, it will automatically refresh the views using this Shared Column, because all the info regarding the Shared Column MUST be in the target views; so these views can use the information and build their indexes.

This means that any shared column created in R7 will appear in R4 or R5 as a regular view (with a "nice" selection formula equal to SELECT @All !). It seems that they "prepared" the field with the R6 release, since some R6 releases are intelligent enough to know that a Shared Column is not a View (I know that 6.5.4 filters it, but I didn't check earlier releases of R6, though).

In conclusion, this all means that

  • viewEZ will work in all versions of Notes, even R4.6 (!)
  • with viewEZ, you will be able to create shared columns, use them, etc. (with any Notes release you are using)
  • the only way to edit a Shared Column prior to R7 (and thus update the target views) will be through viewEZ itself
  • you do not need to have R7 installed to use shared columns with viewEZ

 
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