>I am new to Lotus notes (at the forum too...). We have a cardfile here at the office with a field of 3 or 4 characters for some 300 records. What I need to do is to access this data to be able to use it in another application. I have though of getting this data fro the other application via DDE but looking at the help menu it seems Lotus notes cant act as a DDE server application? Is this so?
>If DDE can be used how can I reference this data? Or...what other way can I access this column?
>Thks in advance for your help...Best regards...Pablo.

Pablo,
While I don't know if Notes is DDE compliant, I know it is COM compliant. You can use it as an automation server if you have Visual FoxPro or Visual Basic.

Check out this message for some links to other threads/messages where you can get some ideas how to do this in VFP.

The Notes help is alos very helpful in determining what objects you need to access and the methods available for use. Some topics to view:

NotesSession object
   Methods
      GetDatabase

NotesDatabase object
   Methods
      GetView

NotesView object
   Nethods
      GetFirstDocument
      GetNextDocument

HTH.