If you copy the design of an existing database, keep in mind that the settings for the full-text index are copied as part of the design. When you complete the new application, be sure to ask the database manager to create a new full-text index.

For information on creating a full-text index for a database copy, see Lotus Domino Administrator Help.

1. Open the database you want to copy.

2. Choose File - Application - New Copy.

3. In the Server field do one of the following:

• Leave Local selected to store the new database on your workstation hard disk.
• Select or enter a server name to store the new database on a server. This allows multiple people to work on the database design.

Note When you copy a database, IBMR LotusR Domino(TM) Designer automatically gives the new database the same title and file name as the original database. You can accept the database title and file name or change it. Database file names can be any number of characters long (within the limits of your operating system), and must end with the NSF file extension. If you plan to use the database you are creating as a template, use the file extension NTF rather than NSF.

6. (Optional) If you are developing an application for use with IBMR LotusR NotesR and Domino 4.x or will be on a Domino 4.x server, click "Size Limit" and select a size (in gigabytes).

7. Select "Database design only" so that the databasefs documents will not be copied to your new database.

8. Deselect Access Control List so that the original databasefs access control list will not be copied to your new database.

9. Click OK.

10. (Optional) Choose File - Application - Properties, click the Design tab, and deselect "Inherit design from template." This will prevent the new database from inheriting design changes from the template whose design the database is based on.

See Also

Copying an existing Domino database
To copy individual design elements
Starting a database from scratch
Creating a database from a template

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