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Find the Parent Document to a Child Document		Date*
12/15/2025		Source (or email address if you prefer)*
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In the script below, the child document is found using GetFirstDocument and GetNextDocument . You might ask yourself `Why not use GetNthDocument instead?'. The reason is GetNthDocument only works in documents in a collection, and we are working in a view!		Type*
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Sometimes in your script you may be pointing to a response document and need to find out what documet is the parent of that child document. The NotesView class provides a method named GetParentDocument to do just that. GetParentDocument can return a document, a response document, or a response to response document, depending on what kind of document is used as a parameter to the method. If a view has been filtered by using FTSearch, GetParentDocument does not return the true parent of a document; it simply returns the previous document in the view.


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Dim session As New NotesSession 'Declare session as a new Notes session
Dim db As NotesDatabase 'Declare db as a Notes Database
Dim view As NotesView 'Declare view as a Notes View
Dim doc As NotesDocument 'Declare doc as a Notes Document
Dim child As NotesDocument 'Declare child as a Notes Document
Dim Temp As Variant 'Declare Temp as variant
Dim Temp2 As Variant 'Declare Temp2 as variant
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase 'Set db to the current Notes database (open)
Set view = db.GetView("Examples") 'Set view to a view called "Examples"
Set child = view.GetFirstDocument 'set child to the first document in the view
Set child = view.GetNextDocument(child) 'set child to the Next document (the child)
Temp = child.Subject 'Temp is set to the child field Subject
Messagebox Temp(0) + " is the response document." 'Display that Temp is a Reponse
Set doc = view.GetParentDocument(child) 'set doc to the parent document of the current child
Temp2 = doc.Subject 'Temp2 is set to the parent document field Subject
Messagebox Temp2(0) + " is the parent document to " + Temp(0)
'Display the child and parent subjects