Design Changes Not replicating Through To All Clients

I have an unusual one.

We have a Domino 6.5 Server running on NT4 SP6a - It will be upgraded to 2003 sometime soon.

The Domino server is a mail and application server. The application is our Customer Ordering System.

We have a number of R5 and R6 clients attached throughtout Europe - we are based in the UK. All clients are Windows XP - as far as I know.

The database(s) design and Access control list have not changed in over 3 months.

All was well until yesterday afternoon when some users in Europe

phoned to say that the main order form would not allow them to place orders. Othere users are ok.

The problem centers around a set of editable fields - Dialog lists - whose visibility is controlled by the contents of a field derived from a field in a form in another database. Although initially blank the field should contain a value in the range from 1 to 5. However, and this is where the problem gets wierd, there are some users for whom the problem persists and they cannot see the fields while others can.

I had a look at the problem and made some modifications to the code. I tested the code here by logging on as the problem users and running the application. All was well. However, after I update the server with the new changes the users (I got everyone to replicate) who had the original problem did not receive the design changes while all other users do receive them !!! I have tried getting the users to create new replica databases and the problem remains the same.

Anyone have any ideas because I am stumpted, snookered and out of ideas.

Many thanks in advance for any help offered

Iain

Subject: Design Changes Not replicating Through To All Clients

Iain,

I would look for multiple replica copies on those users’ workstations. That might throw replication off. I’d also verify that when you asked them to create new replica copies, they really deleted the old ones first (see above).

Instead of creating a new rep, you can also have them clear the history. That might do the trick with a bit less work.

regards,

raphael