How is it possible to create a Lotus Notes 6 database so that it can be opened and used in both Notes 5 and Notes 6 clients?
Subject: How to ensure Notes 6 databases open in Notes 5
databases that reside on server can be opened by any client. you just have to make sure that you use only stuff that is known by r5 clients (no new script classes that were introduced in r6).
best way to achieve this is to design db in r5 client.
Markus Seitz
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Subject: RE: How to ensure Notes 6 databases open in Notes 5
Markus, thanks for your response.
We tried this, we created a blank database in Notes 6, but it won’t run in Notes 5…any other ideas? (this was on local btw)
Subject: RE: How to ensure Notes 6 databases open in Notes 5
Does the user get an error that is something like “not a known database format?” If that is the error, again, the easiest thing to do is to create the DB using an R5 client. If you don’t have that available, then you need to create the DB with an extension of NS5 (instead of NSF).
HTH.
Gregg