There's an easier and more elegant way to accomplish the same thing. What you do is give the two forms different names to tell them apart but then alias them to the same name. Here's an example where two forms have different names but the same alias, called "Form":

Next, go to the form view (a.k.a., the designer view). If you're using R4.x, click once on the form for Notes users and then click on the properties box in the upper-left of the toolbar. If you're using the R5 Designer, right-click on the form for Notes users and choose Design Properties. Go to the design tab and check the box that says, "Hide design element from: Web browsers." Then do the same thing for the form for Web users, except you should check the "Hide design element from: Notes R4.6 or later clients" box. As you can tell, this tip only works with Notes R4.6 and up.

Now Web users will open the document with a form customized for the Web, and the Notes users will open the document with a form customized for the Notes client. And you won't ever have to worry about documents being saved with different form names ever again since they'll all use the same alias name.

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Tip #3: Adding non-image file resources to an R5 database
Published: June 23, 2000

I actually wrote this tip on my PageWriter 2000 pager (at http://www.mot.com/MIMS/PSD/) and sent it to the DominoPower folks when I was on the train to go to Lotus DevCon 2000 in San Francisco. I learned the technique the tip describes the day before in one of the DevCon sessions.

Did you know that you can add non-image files to the image resource section of an R5 database? Here's how: Click on the add image resource button, navigate to the directory containing the file you want to add, manually type in the file name, and press enter. Now you can add cascading style sheets, JavaScript libraries, Macromedia files, and more. When referencing the file in your code, just use the file name as long as it's uniquely named.

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Tip #4: Exporting and refreshing image resources in R5
Published: December 22, 2000

This tip describes something that's simple but which I didn't realize or notice for the first year I was working with R5. It also made me look more closely at the Notes/Domino Fix List Database to research what new capabilities were added when.

Exporting and refreshing image resources in R5 are two things that baffled me for a long time, but there is such an obvious way to do it that I want to shake my head. I tried my usual standby of right-clicking on the image resource, but there was no option to export or refresh the original file. What I didn't look at was the menu bar, which, when you're in the Image Resources section of a database, has a Resource menu item with three choices: