Synchronizing databases with master templates
To use a consistent design for multiple databases, database designers can associate databases or elements within databases with a master template.
About this task
Designers can manually synchronize databases with a master template, but more often they rely on the Designer task to do this. When a master template design changes, the Designer task updates all databases that inherit their designs from the master template. The Designer task runs daily by default at 1 AM. The Updall task, which runs by default at 2 AM, updates the view indexes of databases changed by Designer.
For a server's Designer task to update databases, you must create a replica of the master template on each server that stores databases that inherit from the master template.
After updating database designs, the Designer task also reloads the LDAP schema on a Domino® server that runs the LDAP service.
You can run the Designer task against a specific database or folder.
For more information on master templates, see the HCL Domino Designer Help.
You can run the Designer task by using one of the following methods.
Running the Designer task using the
toolProcedure
- From the Domino Administrator, select the server on which to run Designer.
- Click the tab.
- In the Task pane, click .
- Select Designer and then click Start Task.
Running the Designer task using a console command
Procedure
Example
Command line option | Description |
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-d directory name |
Synchronizes the databases in a directory relative
to the data directory. For example, to synchronize databases in the
directory DATA\SALES, specify |
-f filename |
Synchronizes a specific database. For example,
to synchronize the database DATA\SALES.NSF, specify |
-i name |
Synchronizes the databases specified by name, which can be a database, folder, or file name that contains a list of paths, each of which can be a database or a folder. |
If the file SCHEDULE contains this |
where |
then load design -i SCHEDULE is the same as this |
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SALES DEV DEV\USER1.NSF |
SALES is a directory and DEV is a directory |
load design -d SALES load design -d DEV load design -f DEV\USER1.NSF |