Consolidating replication or save conflicts

About this task

Regularly look for and consolidate replication or save conflicts. To consolidate a conflict, merge information into one document and remove the other document. Conflicts are easiest to consolidate immediately after they occur, since the conflict document is still closely synchronized with the information in the main document. It's important to consolidate replication or save conflicts quickly, so users access the correct information.

Tip: To locate replication or save conflicts, create a view that displays only conflict documents. Then, to see a conflict document in context with its main document, select the Replication or Save Conflict document in the view that displays conflicts, hold down the CTRL key, and switch to the view that shows the main document.

To consolidate replication or save conflicts, you can save the main document or save the Replication or Save Conflict document.

To save the main document

Procedure

  1. Copy any information you want to save from the Replication or Save Conflict document into the main document.
  2. Delete the conflict document.

To save the Replication or Save Conflict document

Procedure

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Copy any information you want to save from the main document into the Replication or Save Conflict document.
    • If you do not need to save any information from the main document, perform a minor edit in the Replication or Save Conflict document -- for example, delete a space. This will allow you to save this document as a main document.
  2. Save the conflict document. The conflict document becomes a main document.
  3. Delete the original main document.