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A simple but very useful Domino OTS enhancement in 14.x

Now that Domino 14.0 is out for a while and we have Domino 14.5 available it is time to look into adding new functionality to my OTS scripts.

It's a challenge to work with new functionality if you also want to support back-level versions.
But this enhancement is helpful and I will start using it for additional server setups in context of the Domino Start Script and container project.

For additional server setups a fixed case-sensitive lookup can be problematic for example when finding the server document.

The trick is to not use the server name typed in by the admin for lookups starting with Domino 14.0 as shown below.
But in general a formula is the much more flexible way to search for an existing document.

My next wishlist item would be to be able to specify a formula on a document before compute with form is executed.
This would allow the same type of flexibility for updating document information.

I have just created an idea a minute ago --> https://domino-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/DOMINO-I-3042.
Please vote if you find it useful.


Domino 12.x

    "documents": [
          {
            "action": "update",
            "findDocument": {"Type": "Server", "ServerName": "CN=my-domino-server/O=Acme" },
            ...

Domino 14.x

    "documents": [
          {
            "action": "update",
            "findDocument": "Type = {Server} & ServerName = @Username",
            ...

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