hi!i have 4 databases that inherits design from a master template. i noticed that refresh design runs every night, which i don’t want to happen, since sometimes i’m working on something that’s not finished for the day. i just want to trigger the refresh design manually when the design is ready. anyone knows where i can turn this off? thanks!!
Subject: server refreshes design automatically
Others have offered some simple solutions which should work in your case just fine. They do all suffer from a lack of scalabililty though. Our solution is to use a QA template that sits between the development templates and the live databases. Elements are tested in the template and once they have passed testing, they are copied into the QA template and the refresh task distributes them to the live databases. We manage a fairly large number of complex (several hundred design elements each) databases using this system and it works fine.
Subject: server refreshes design automatically
Under the 4th tab in the Database design Properties(inherit design from template) you have the settings for the design template name.From here only the server gets the name of the Template from which the desingn needs to be refreshed.
I guess one simple way is remove the name of the template from here and the scheduled refresh will not happen.
Subject: RE: server refreshes design automatically
thanks, that’s an option. =)i just thought there might be a switch that i can turn off or something? that way i won’t have to retype the template name everytime i refresh a db…
Subject: RE: server refreshes design automatically
Just add one character to the template name, then you don’t have to disable the “Inherit design from template” and only need to remove/add one character each time you want to enable/disable the automatic design refresh.
Subject: RE: server refreshes design automatically
in the notes.ini file of the server, locale the lines ServerTask,ServerTasksAt1 and remove design.
That way the design task will not run scheduled overnight.
One can manually start the design task from the server console by : load design
Best regards,
Jacky