I set up a Notes database with a frameset containing the typical outline navigation frame on the left and a view frame on the right. I designed the frameset so that the first design element that is opened is a form with an embedded view with a show single category formula. The show single category formula restricts the documents displayed to those for the current user. This all works fine.

However, I can't get the embedded outline to highlight the form that is being displayed in the view pane when the database is first opened. The embedded outline will highlight the form as selected when I click on the entry for it, but not when I first open the database. I tried changing the form to a page, but I get the same behavior. I also tried changing the embedded view to be the default view for the databas. Nothing doing. It seems like an embedded outline will only automatically highlight an entry if its for a view.

Am I missing something? Or have I just forgotten the quirks with embedded outlines?

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I've been taking to heart what Chris Toohey and others have said about application UIs and how they can impact what users think of an application platform like Lotus Notes.

Before I roll-out another database based on the drab and lifeless Document Library template, has someone already taken the existing emplate and jazzed it up?  Or created something like a Document Library and made it open source?

I checked OpenNTF but didn't see anything there.  This would be for Notes 8.5 Basic client users.  No web or Standard client users at this time.

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