Shared Column Update

I have a shared column that was created by copying a column from a view. I then added the shared column to other views.

I made a change to the shared column formula but it is not updating to the other views. The ‘Column is Used By’ function does show the list of columns.

Is there something I need to do to update the shared columns to the views that use it? I thought it was automatic.

UPDATE: I upgraded to FP1 - no change. Also, if I edit the column’s color, that is updated to all the views but the new column formula is still not updated.

Thank you.

Subject: Views that are hidden from the Notes client (i.e. web-only views) fail to update.

Should be fixed in 8.5.2.

Subject: These ones aren’t hidden from either…

… and are available for both Notes and Web. Is that going to be fixed too?

Subject: You’ll need to report that thru support…

…because it’s not a problem I’m aware of. We definitely go update everything that’s a view that we can find – it should match the set of everything you can see in Designer.

Subject: Programmatic Name

I am late to this party, but could it be, that any change to the (shared) column formula, that leads to a change of the programmatic name, breaks the update? This would at least make some sense to me.

Yeah, the property window says “use caution when changing”, but that’s about all I find on this topic.

For sure you are aware of how this will usually go: A shared column starts its life with a simple field value, but get’s extended to use a formula later on. And whoops there goes your original programmatic name.

Client is 8.5.3 FP3 btw.