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Comment - Re: Coding a 'What's new' agent for Domino

Comment by Chris Molloy on 17 Nov 2002 ():

I wanted to pre-emptively answer the question of "why not just show the last x new/modified documents (e.g. first x documents in a view sorted by date, descending)?" 1. The view described does not have much use outside of the purpose mentioned above. If I don't need it for anything else, I don't want to have the overhead of maintaining the view and its associated index. 2. The technique I described in my article can span multiple databases with ease. OK - this can also be achieved by other, more complex, methods, but why bother? The key is the 'with ease' bit of that first sentence. Cheers.

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