Xpages search between 2 dates

Question

I have a view with some data, and a column with the creation date of each document. I want to make a search feature with 3 input fields: Name, StartDate, EndDate. The result

Answer 1

Use the search property of DominoView data source. It does a full text search on all documents in view. Create a search string like

[Name]="Meier" AND [_creationDate]>=12-01-2013 AND [_creationDate]<=30-08-2014

Your data source code would look like this:

    
        
            =' + formatter.format(viewScope.StartDate);
            }
            if (viewScope.EndDate) {
                search += ' AND [_creationDate]<=' + formatter.format(viewScope.EndDate);
            }
            return search.substring(5);}]]>
        
    

This code assumes that there are editable search fields which value is bound to viewScope.Name, viewScope.StartDate and viewScope.EndDate e.g.