Hi,my customer is just about to migrate about 3.200 mail files from R4.6 to N6.51 (clients are N6.01CF1 german, servers 6.51 on AIX).
Now we are looking for design elements that are set to ‘Prohibit design refresh…’ to be able to switch them off to have the migration work properly.
What we need is a list with databases where the ‘hook’ is set (we don’t assume them to be many) or a tool that is able to switch them off automatically.
Of course we have to do it programmatically.
First tries with exporting the databases to dxl-files and parsing them by the DOM classes didn’t succeed. The same with some tools found in Lotus sandbox on LDD.
Are there any ideas and hints how to solve this problem?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Regards, Peter
Subject: Looking for ‘prohibit refresh design’ hooks
First, the ‘Prohibit design refresh’ should be checked if users want to keep the folders they’ve created during the upgrade. If the ‘Prohibit design refresh’ is not checked, the folders will be deleted.
You could create a new database with a LotusScript agent that would check each mail database. The ‘Views’ property of ‘NotesDatabase’ returns an array of view and folder names. The View property ‘IsProhibitDesignRefresh’ tells you the status of the ‘Prohibit design refresh’ flag.
Subject: RE: Looking for ‘prohibit refresh design’ hooks
Thanks for your answer, Lawrence. Yes, the checks for the user folders stay as they are.The view property 'IsProhibitDesignRefresh’is not sufficient as I have to check all the design documents. In the meantime I got a proper answer from Rod Whiteley (in the other thread that I posted accidentally twice)
Subject: designPropEZ ‘prohibit refresh design’ hooks
You can also look into this tool called designPropEZ by Ytria…lets you see exactly where the “hooks” are occuring, and lets you update the property (among others) for a mass modification…and you can also call it programmatically…
URL below