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Creating a bookmark to an HCL Notes database seems like is a simple thing to do. In the HCL Notes client you can choose one of the following options:
- Choose the menu option File – Open – HCL Notes Application (or press Control-O), and from the Open Application dialog click the Bookmark... button
- Right-click a database on the workspace and choose Application – Bookmark...
- Open a database, right-click the its tab on the workspace, and choose Create Bookmark...
However, if you do either of the first two things and bookmark a database directly, you might find that clicking your new bookmark while the database is already open on the workspace will open the database multiple times instead of reusing the already open tab.
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Here are some steps to create a "proper" bookmark (one that the Notes client likes) in this case:
Step 1
Make sure MarvelClient is installed and running on your HCL Notes client. You should have at least a MarvelClient Basic license (which is required to use a Bookmark Action anyway).
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Close your Notes client. Open the bookmark.xml file in the "Temp" folder of your MarvelClient working directory (if you're not sure where that is, see the article Changing the MarvelClient article The panagenda Working Directory Explained).
Find the bookmark you just created in the bookmark.xml file. It might look similar to this:
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If your bookmark.xml entry looked like the second example above – with a <replicaid> entry and a <name> entry – you can create a Bookmark Action with a Target-type of "Named Element" like this:
Note that the Name(d Elem) Named Element item came from the <name> entry in the bookmark.xml and the Class item came from the <class> entry (without the leading zeros).
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As seen in the Named Element example, you can use MarvelClient to create a Bookmark Action to open a specific design element in a database, not just the default. The "Class" numbers that correspond to various design elements are:
| design element type | class number |
|---|---|
| view | 2 |
| form | 3 |
| navigator | 4 |
| frameset | 6 |
Just be aware that if it's not the design element that's displayed by default when the database opens, you might run into the problem mentioned above where the bookmark opens a new instance of the database, even if the database is already open.