Calling @UpdateViewDesign Across Databases

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I have created an Action in a secondary database which, among other things, is supposed to go through all of the folders in my main mail database and copy the design from one folder, called Computing, to all of the rest. I have based this part of the Action roughly on the sample agent IBM provided as an example for the @UpdateViewDesign function (see http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=474&uid=swg21086404). Everything works fine, except for the actual @UpdateViewDesign call. I’ve modified that line so it looks as follows:

Evaluate( |@UpdateViewDesign(“| & view_name & |” ; “Computing”)| )

view_name is the name of the folder to be changed.

The problem, it seems, is that view_name and “Computing” do not contain enough information to indicate to the function which database they are in. Any ideas?

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Subject: Calling @UpdateViewDesign Across Databases

Hum, perhaps a stupid comment, but can’t you just use the “Actions/Update Folder Design” utility that is built in the mailfile design to update the design of all the folders you want based on the design of another given folder? I thought that’s what it was meant for (does same thing as th -u in “load convert -u dbname * template_name” command).

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Subject: RE: Calling @UpdateViewDesign Across Databases

The problem with that built-in utility is that, as far as I know, it only lets you copy the design from the Inbox, Alarms, Rules, Trash or Calendar folders. I want to copy the design from one of my other folders.