Subject: Some Avenues For Investigation
We recently experienced this same problem and it brought to mind some experiences we had back in February. I don’t have exact details as the order of things was lost; however, we are going to pursue this and see if we can’t determine exact steps to duplicate the problem and we were able to fix/avoid the issue and that might help you.
Back in February, we were working with a client who had Domino R6.5.5FP3 servers and we were doing development with both Notes R8.0.1/2 and R8.5 Designer clients. All three flavors of Notes R8 Designer clients touched the design of some templates we were rolling out to the client’s production servers. However, once the templates were on the production servers, we were unable to create databases based on those templates, although I do not recall the specific error messages that we got (sorry about that).
Just this week, we were updating templates with a Notes R8.0.2 Designer client where the templates had been created as new copies of other templates by using a Notes R8.5 client. When we ran the Design task, the updated design elements in the template were not updated into the databases based on that template. When we selected a specific database and then refreshed the design through the menu, we occasionally got updates pushed to the databases, but not reliably. Similar behavior was observed using the “load design -f ” from the server command line.
In both cases, we fixed/avoided the issue by creating a new copy of the template using a Notes R8.0.2 client. The templates in both of our issues had been copied using a Notes R8.5 client (using New Copy). This morning, after using a Notes R8.0.2 client to create a new copy of the affected template, we ran the Design process against the entire server and all of the databases based on that template were updated as expected.
Something of note was that when the database designs were updated from the new copy of the template, two new design elements were added:
05/27/2009 08:45:10 Updating ‘build.properties’ into database ‘Client Chart 41’ from template ‘Client Portal Template’
05/27/2009 08:45:11 Updating ‘.project’ into database ‘Client Chart 41’ from template ‘Client Portal Template’
I don’t understand why these templates behave this way, it is counter-intuitive to me and it might be that I am missing something. Unfortunately, we didn’t track enough of the details to document the entire process, I am going to need to start from scratch and document each step and run multiple tests to try to duplicate and document this issue.
Good luck! I’ll be interested to hear of making new copies of the templates with an R8.0.2 client help.
