Views Missing

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I recently lost (deleted) a view from a DB and I need to retrieve the view from a backup of the DB.

The problem is that when I open the DB locally most of the views are missing, including the one I need. What’s weird is that I opened the DB in notesPeak and the view is in fact in the DB. Why can’t I see it in Designer?

My ID has Manager access and I know I have open this DB before and had access to the views. What can I do to get access to the views again?

Thanks~

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Subject: Views Missing

First a question: are the view private?

With DXL or with a NotesNoteCollection your could try to extract the views from the “old” db and copy them into the other db.

I would choose for the NotesNoteCollection. You build it with SelectViews = True. Then loop throught the result and read with every found NID a document and check for the field $TITLE.

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Subject: RE: Views Missing

The views are not private. They are just regular views, no security, no readers fields.

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Subject: RE: Views Missing

I had the same problem. But I found the reason, it was a problem with multilanguage. Somebody has enabled multilanguage on the database but didn’t select default language correspoing to views language.

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Subject: Views Missing

Are you sure there weren’t user access restrictions? A local copy might not know you’re in a specific role so the views would be hidden, even in designer. You might try putting a copy (not replica) on the server, check the ACL and try again.

Future suggestion - change control - before you change anything in a db, make a copy of the design on the server and change the template name (if one exists). Now if you muck up your working copy, you have a good backup on the server.

If you have $$ to spend, look at the TeamStudio products - they have lots of good design control features.

HTH

Doug