LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers - IBM Redbooks

Note If you do not want to create the spreadsheet straight away, click
OK on the message window. A message prompts you whether or not to
save the document. If you click Yes, the 1-2-3 object will be saved as a
blank object. You can update it later on.
Creating a Linked Object Using LotusScript
In this section you will link data from another application as an object in a
Notes document using LotusScript. The following example shows how to
link an object from a Microsoft Word document into a Notes document. As
we noted before, links are dependent on the directory structure of the file
system because they do not store the object’s data in the Notes data store.
So, links can be broken if the document is mailed to a user who does not
have the object’s data in the same physical location on their machine.
1. First, create a new MS Word document or use an existing one. If you
need help to create this document, refer to the appropriate product
manual. We called our document WDREADME.DOC. It looks like this:
2. Open the OLE 2 Notes database. The view window displays.
3. On the navigator pane, select Design, then Forms and open the OLE 2
Document form. The Form Design window displays.
4. Move to the end of the form and click the cursor under the Embed New
Data Object button.
5. Choose Create - Hotspot - Button from the menu bar and type Link an
Object from a File in the Button label: box.
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