Bugs: "Element or Navigator is invalid" error when using NotesRichTextNavigator

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Let me dive straight into the point.  Assume that I have few document say five documents with a rich text item in each one of it and all of them are created using same form. So don’t bother about minor variations like missing document items etc… To make things simple let me say that these five documents are design equivalent.

Now let me say that I don’t put any values inside the richtext field in 3 document alone. So on the contrary I have values on all the 4 remaining documents.

Now assume that I have the following sort of code in an agent

On Error Goto errhandler

                …….’some code               

                Set dc=db.UnprocessedDocuments

                Set doc=dc.GetFirstDocument

                Set richStyle = session.CreateRichTextStyle

                richStyle.PassThruHTML = true

                                

                While Not doc Is Nothing

                                itr=itr+1

                               

                                Set richText=doc.GetFirstItem("myRtField")

                                Set rtnav=richText.CreateNavigator

                                                               

                                Call rtnav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTRUN)

                                Call richText.BeginInsert(rtNav)                   ---------------------à>> when itr=3 this line will error out with error number 4506

                                Call richText.AppendStyle(richStyle)

                                'Call rtnav.GetLastElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTRUN )

                                Call richText.EndInsert

                                Call richText.Update

                                'Call doc.Save(True, False)

                                Set richText=Nothing

                                Set rtnav=Nothing

                                Set doc=dc.GetNextDocument(doc)

                                Print Cstr(itr) & " doc processed"

                Wend

                Exit Sub

errHandler:

                If Err=4506 Then Goto skiploop

                Print Error & " *** occured on line *** " & Cstr(Erl) &"*** with error number *** " & Cstr(Err)

                Exit Sub

As you may understand the since the rich text field in the third document is empty an error with number 4506 will occur.

You can say that one can handle this scenario by using some thing like “IF rtnav Is Nothing Then goto SkipLoop” etc… but it did not work so I managed to loop the control back in my error handler section.

And guess what, the object rtnav becomes unusable. I simply does not set any right values the next time the loop executes and does not accept any values. And so the following error occurs

And alas… the code breaks. Complier does not even make it to the error handler.

So sad L

I think I know a work around for that. So stay tuned

A way to handle "Element or Navigator is invalid" error when using NotesRichTextNavigator

Before attempting to create a rich text navigator, just check if the field is empty or not

                x=doc.GetItemValue("MyTextarea")

                                If isEmpty(x)="" Then

                                                Goto skipLoop2

                                End If

So this is one possible work around for the bug that I was posted earlier

Hope this helps some one J