Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Working with $$Return Fields

When Web clients submit a document, Domino returns a generic confirmation message of “Form processed” by default. $$Return is a reserved field name that you can use to customize the generic Form Processed Confirmation message.

By adding a text—computed for display and field named $$Return—to a form, you can add HTML to the Value event of this field. Table 16.11 lists and explains some examples of $$Return.

Table 16.11. $$Return Code Examples

Type of Custom Message	Code to Be Placed in the Programmer's Pane of the Field's Value Event
Thank You	“Thank you for your suggestion.”
Personalized Thank You—with Users Name	If the site has forced authentication, then the users name is available and can be added to the formula to personalize ...