Created Field - Read Only - Importing Document From Another Database - Wrong Date and Time

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I recently upgraded an application.

I started a new database because the first one was still in use.

Now that my new database complete, I would like to import old document.

But the problem is when I’m importing old one (with lotusscript agent), the document creation date and time is changed to the importation date.

I would like to keep the previous creation date.

Creation Date is a Read Only field.

Any suggestions or solutions ?

Thanks

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Subject: Created Field - Read Only - Importing Document From Another Database - Wrong Date and Time

The Created Date is actually stored in the documents UNID. Thus, what you could do is …

Select a document form the old database

Copy it to the new database

Change the new document’s UNID to match the original UNID

If you want to get fancy, you could modify the UNID so that the file part of it matches the value of the new database.

e.g.

The UNID 5FB3BCDBDEC03CBA852569D2006FBA8E consists of two parts.

The first half 5FB3BCDB:DEC03CBA is the creation date/time of the Document

The second half 852569BC:00614FBA is the Database’s ID (actually the date/time the database was created)

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Subject: Created Field - Read Only - Importing Document From Another Database - Wrong Date and Time

can you not refresh the design of old db with the new one?

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Subject: RE: Created Field - Read Only - Importing Document From Another Database - Wrong Date and Time

Unfortunatly, I havent used Template to create those both database.

And the new database is a brand new database. The only thing that might be the same as the previous one is “some” data.

I think I will keep the old database for “read only” and for a while…time for analytics people to make the stats they will need and After that I will remove it from the server.

The new database will replace the old one but wont hold old message.