Template design

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

Subject:

Template design

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Update:
On the conference call the Lotus engineers said that as long as Setup=1 and TemplateSetup=1 then the client should upgrade the design of the databases on first setup, whether the DB has the inherit design set or not. Hopefully that's true although I was seeing R5 design address books on 8.5 clients.

That's a much easier fix although I cannot state whether that would have fixed in our setup (too late to go back and verify).
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Hi David,

I had the same issue. When I looked into it further I found that all the problem address books did not have Inherit Design From Master Template > Template Name field filled out on the Design tab of the address book's property field.

In the end I added custom code to the mail file design to run in the Database Open script that set the master template name for the address book (and bookmark.nsf) correctly. That way when the initial client setup runs and it does the 'upgrading the design of your databases' it correctly upgrades them.

(If the client has already been upgraded you can set the notes.ini variable TemplateSetup equal to 1 (as it's usually set to the current client version) and the next time the client runs it will upgrade the local databases and set the TemplateSetup field back to the version number (e.g. 805001 or similar).

Let me know if you want a copy of the code so you can include in your mail template.

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