Effect of Database Properties when Refresh/Replace
A friend of mine found a recent posting on the public Lotus Support database talking about what database properties are affected by a design refresh and a design replace. What made this interesting to me was not the details, but the differences. There are some database properties that are not affected by a regular refresh of the design, but they are affected by a replace of a design.
Basics Tab – Settings changed by both refresh and replace
Type (Standard, Library, Personal Journal, etc.)
Web Access – use JavaScript when generating pages
Web Access – Require SSL connection
Web Access – Don’t allow URL open
Allow use of stored forms in this database
Basics Tab – Settings changed only by replace
Display images after loading
Allow document locking
Design Tab – Settings changed by both refresh and replace
Options – Do not mark modified documents as unread
Design Tab – Settings changed only by replace
Options – Allow design locking
Options – Mark parent note on reply or forward
Inheritance – all settings, but only if “inherit future design changes” is selected during the replace
Multilingual Options – all settings if the template has the settings enabled (if the template is multilingual)
Launch Tab – Settings changed by both refresh and replace
All options (client/web launch settings, restore as last viewed by user, show “about database” settings)
Advanced Tab – Settings changed by both refresh and replace
Advanced Options – Optimize document table map
Advanced Options – Don’t support specialized response hierarchy
Advanced Tab – Settings changed only by replace
Unread Mark Options – Don’t maintain unread marks
Unread Mark Options – Replicate unread marks
Advanced Options – Maintain LastAccessed property
Advanced Options – Use LZ1 compression for attachments
Advanced Options – Allow more fields in database
Advanced Options – Allow soft deletions
The “rule of thumb” is that things that change the physical nature of documents or the database (allow soft deletions, unread marks, document/design locking, etc.) require a replace design instead of a refresh design.
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