Replcation transfering whole documents instead of Modified fields

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It is said that the Replication tasks compares documents and merge modified fields, but here, it is not exactly the case.

On a form, we got several fields, including one RichText field used to Attach files.

Whenever ANY fields is changed (i.e, the READERS field), the whole document is replicated over other servers, not just the content of the one field.

How come field-by-field replication does not just change the content of that one field and leave the rest of the document as it is?

The attached documents are usualy quite large and we cant go along transfering them everytime.

Any advice?

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Subject: Replcation transfering whole documents instead of Modified fields.

Not an answer, but a point that might help your anaysis. Although you attach files to RTF’s, they are not stored in the RTF’s - attached files are stored in $FILE fields. If these are being replicated without being changed, then something is wrong - it’s not supposed to happen that way.

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Subject: Replcation transfering whole documents instead of Modified fields.

My experience is that only modified fields are sent; that is, only fields where the Sequence Number differs. Perhaps your form has some code that is updating the RT field, giving it a new Seq#.