If you use a template to refresh or replace the database design, to ensure that the option "Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify" takes effect, select this option as well as the option "Propagate this prohibition of design change" in the design properties of the template.

Automatically refreshing a design

The Designer server task automatically synchronizes all server databases that are linked to a template. This server task runs by default at 1:00 AM. For the update to work, a template must reside on the same server as the databases linked to it. Replicas synchronize with the templates stored on their servers.

Manually refreshing a design

Use the Refresh Design command to distribute design changes manually from a template to any databases linked to it. Manually refresh the design of a database when:

• The database is stored locally; therefore, the nightly Designer server task doesn't update the design.
• You want to receive design updates before the scheduled update.
• You don't have Designer access to the database.

The following are not changed during an automatic or manual refresh procedure:

• The database icon (unless you enabled "Allow design refresh or replace to modify the database icon" in Icon Properties)
• The database title and category
• The database ACL and encrypt database settings

  Note that the ACL roles are updated (File - Application - Access Control - Roles).

• The "Using Database" and "About Database" documents (unless you have disabled the "Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify" box in the Design Properties box)
• Individual elements whose design is protected from updates (that is, if "Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify" is selected in the Design Properties box for the element)
• A component whose template, specified in the "Inherit from the design template" box in the Design Properties box, is unavailable

• The "List as advanced template in 'New Database' dialog" option on the Design tab of the File - Database Properties box
• All options on the Advanced tab of the File - Database Properties box, except "Document table bitmap optimization" and "Don't support specialized response hierarchy"

The following components are changed during an automatic or manual refresh procedure if the design element changes in the template:

• Forms, fields, form actions, and event scripts
• Views, folders, and view actions
• Agents
• Pages
• Framesets
• Navigators
• Shared fields
• All Database Properties box options, except "List as advanced template in 'New Database' dialog" on the Design tab
• The options "Document table bitmap optimization" and "Don't support specialized response hierarchy" on the Advanced tab of the File - Database Properties box

1. Select the database to be updated, and choose File - Application - Refresh Design.

2. Select the IBMR LotusR Domino(TM) server that stores the template(s) or select Local if the templates are on your workstation, and then click OK.

3. Click Yes to confirm.

4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 if other templates associated with the database are stored on other servers.

See Also

Making and distributing design changes
Replacing a design
Design changes and replication
Hiding the design of a database
Hiding design elements

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