Replaces all items of the specified name with one new item, which is assigned the specified value. If the document does not contain an item with the specified name, this method creates a new item and adds it to the document.

Defined in

Document

Syntax

public Item replaceItemValue(String name, Object value)
   throws NotesException

Parameters

String name

String. The name of the item or items you want to replace.

The value of the new item. The data type of the item depends upon the data type of value, and does not need to match the data type of the old item.

	Data type of value	Resulting item
	String	Text
	Integer	Number
	Double	Number
	DateTime	Date-time item
	java.util.Vector with String, Integer, Double, or DateTime elements	Multi-value text, number, or date-time item
	Item	Same data type as the Item

Item

The new item, which replaces all previous items with the same name.

To keep the changes, you must call save after calling replaceItemValue.

Language cross-reference

ReplaceItemValue method in LotusScript NotesDocument class

@SetField function in formula language

@SetDocField function in formula language

FIELD keyword in formula language

Example
See Also

Creating an item and assigning values in Java classes

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