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Application Design
Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
Creating an application
All Domino® applications begin with a Domino database. Domino databases are the containers for your application. Databases hold the data, logic, and design elements for your application. Your Domino application can be made up of one or more Domino databases.
Creating databases
There are three ways to create a new database:
To protect individual design elements

To protect individual design elements

About this task

If your database inherits its design from a template, you can protect views, forms, subforms, pages, framesets, and other design elements.

Procedure

Select each design element in the Work pane.
Choose Design - Properties.
On the Design tab select "Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify."

Results

If you use a template to refresh or replace the database design, to ensure that this option takes effect, select this option as well as the option "Propagate this prohibition of design change" in the design properties of the template.