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Monday 15 December 2014

Copy/Paste from applications to Notes into text fields (international characters)

The problem (sample with cyrilic symbols):


I had a very interesting problem with copying data, which contained international characters, from Microsoft office applications to Lotus Notes. So if you copy/paste into RichText field, there is workaround, that it could be pasted as plain text, but when you try to paste into Notes style text field, there is no options to do that. Using Lotus Notes e-mail, I've noticed, that copy/pasting into Native OS Style fields works well. So the workaround for that type of problem is to create form with one Native OS style field and add PostOpen event, which pastes data into that field, than copies that data again and closes the form. As a result, clipboard will contain correct data, to paste into Notes style field

You can create simple hotspot near the required field, which opens form with one field and then pastes resulting data in target field.