I d suggest looking at Midas Rich Text LSX (http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/MidasLSX)

I haven t used the personally, but I remember them from years ago being the best option for working with Rich Text. I d bet it saves you a lot of headaches.

As for the NotesMIMEEntity class, I don t believe there is a way to convert RichText to MIME, only MIME to RichText (or retain the MIME within the document for emailing purposes).

There is this fairly unknown command that does exactly what you want: retrieve the URL using the command OpenField.

Example that converts only the Body-field:

http://SERVER/your%5Fdatabase%5Fpath.nsf/NEW%5FVIEW/docid/Body?OpenField

Here is how I did it, using the OpenField command, see D.Bugger s post above

Function GetHtmlFromField(doc As NotesDocument, fieldname As String) As String
    Dim obj
    Set obj = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
    obj.open "GET", "http://www.mydomain.dk/database.nsf/0/" + doc.Universalid + "/" + fieldname + "?openfield&charset=utf-8", False, "", ""
    obj.send("")

    Dim html As String
    html = Trim$(obj.responseText)

    GetHtmlFromField = html
End Function

If you upgrade to Notes Domino 8.5.1 then you can use the new ConvertToMIME method of the NotesDocument class. See the docs. This should do what you want.

Alternativly the easiest way to get the Domino server to render the RichText will be to actually retrieve it via a url call. Set up a simple form that just has the RichText field and then use your favourite HTTP api to pull in the page. It should then be pretty straight forward to pull out the body.

Keep it simple.

Change the BODY field to Store contents as HTML and MIME

Open the doc in editmode. Save. Close.

You can now use the NotesMIMEEntity to get what you need from script.

You can use the NotesDXLExporter class to export the Rich Text and use an XSLT to transform the output to what you need.

I know you mentioned using LotusScript, but if you don t mind writing a small Java agent (in the Notes client), this can be done fairly easily - and there is no need to modify the existing form design.

The basic idea is to have your Java code open a particular document through a localhost http request (which is simple in Java) and to have your code capture that html output and save it back to that document. You basically allow the Domino rendering engine to do the heavy lifting.

You would want do this:

1. Create a form which contains only the rich-text field you want to convert, and with Content Type of HTML
2. Create a view with a selection formula for all of the documents you want to convert, and with a form formula which computes to the new form
3. Create the Java agent which just walks your view, and for each document gets its docid, opens a URL in the form http://SERVER/your_database_path.nsf/NEW_VIEW/docid?openDocument, grabs the http response and saves it.

I put up some sample code in a similar SO post here:

How to convert text and rich text fields in a document to html using lotusscript?

Works in Domino 10 (have not tested with 9)

HTMLStrings$ = NotesRichTextItem .Converttohtml([options] ) As String

See documentation :

https://help.hcltechsw.com/dom_designer/10.0.1/basic/H_CONVERTOHTML_METHOD_NOTESRICHTEXTITEM.html

UPDATE (2022)

HCL no longer support this method since version 11. The documentation does not include any info about the method. I have made some tests and it still works in v12 but HCL recommended to not use it.

Casper s recommendation above works well, but make sure the ACL is such to allow Anonymous Access otherwise your HTML will be the HTML from your login form

If you do not need to get the Richtext from the items specifically, you can use ?OpenDocument, which is documented (at least) here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-Domino_URL_cheat_sheet/ https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVRGU_9.0.1/com.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc/H_ABOUT_URL_COMMANDS_FOR_OPENING_DOCUMENTS_BY_KEY.html

OpenDocument also allows you to expand sections (I am unsure if OpenField does)

Syntax is: http://Host/Database/View/DocumentUniversalID?OpenDocument

But be sure to include the charset parameter as well - Japanese documents were unreadable without specifying utf-8 as the charset.

Here is the method I use that takes a NotesDocument and returns the HTML for the doc as a string.

    private string ConvertDocumentToHml(Domino.NotesDocument doc, string sectionList = null)
    {
        var server = doc.ParentDatabase.Server.Split( / )[0];
        var dbPath = doc.ParentDatabase.FilePath;
        string viewName = "0";
        string documentId = doc.UniversalID.ToUpper();

        var ub = new UriBuilder();
        ub.Host = server;
        ub.Path = dbPath.Replace("\", "/") + "/" + viewName + "/" + documentId;

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(sectionList))
        {
            ub.Query = "OpenDocument&charset=utf-8";
        }
        else
        {
            ub.Query = "OpenDocument&charset=utf-8&ExpandSection=" + sectionList;
        }

        var url = ub.ToString();

        var req = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
        try
        {
            var resp = req.GetResponse();
            string respText = null;

            using (var sr = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                respText = sr.ReadToEnd();
            }
            return respText;
        }
        catch (WebException ex)
        {
            return "";
        }
    }