Redirect from Web query open agent on Lotus Domino? - redirect

Question

Does anyone know a way of redirecting to another webpage from lotus domino web query an open agent? The print statement does not seem to work. A possible workaround would be very appreciated!
Something on that subject can be found here but it seems kind of flaky like this
link.
Can it be done without JavaScript and major redesign of document form?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You do realize that the 4/5 forum is almost a decade out-of-date, right? If you're using a more recent version of Notes/Domino, I'd check the 6/7 forum (or even the 8 if you're on that release, since it's so different); here's the search results for "webqueryopen redirect"; there are a lot more possible answers.
Notes 6/7 forum results
The simplest answers to your actual question are here and here.

Answer 2

Better to wite to 'location:' header directly, as avoids Javascript and meta-tags.

Answer 3

This is from one of the responses on the thread you pointed to and should work fine - have the WQO agent simply write to a hidden field on the form. This will do a client-side redirect, so you'll get two trips to the server.
You could use your WQO to set a field
on the document called redirect. Set
the field to text and hide it from
everything. HEre's what you put in the
field (with your WQO agent):
location.replace('http://www.website.com');
In your HtmlHeadContent, put this
formula:
"" +
#NewLine + redirect + #NewLine +
""

Answer 4

A line of code in WQO agent does the trick, but note it still loads the page before the redirect:
Call s.Documentcontext.Replaceitemvalue("$$HTMLHead", {<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.etfos.hr">"})

Answer 5

in your agent, simply do the following
print |[| & requiredURL & |]|

Answer 6

Try to see if you really need to open the document instead of running an agent and pass the params in the Query_String
I think that wqo cannot redirect to another page as it will end up redirecting you to the document you either opened or are creating. I may be wrong but yesterday I was trying to either do one thing or the other based on the params I was passing to the OpenCorm url command and it seems that although it is running the agent, the pw.println() command doesn't behave the same as if it was a WQS agent.
If you don't need to open a document, try running an agent and pass the params to it

Answer 7

The proper way to do it is to have one print statement with the URL you want to redirect to in brackets. This will generate a 302 REDIRECT on the server.
Example code:
%REM
Agent redirect
Trigger: On Schedule - Never
Target: None
Security Level: 1
%END REM
Option Public
Option Declare
Sub Initialize
Print "[http://www.ibm.com]"
End Sub
Some people have suggested Meta Refresh. This is discouraged by the W3C. See the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh#Usability