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To change database design properties
Database Properties Design

You can select and change design properties in only those databases to which you have Manager or Designer access.

1. Open a database.

2. Choose File - Database - Properties.

3. Click the Design tab.

4. Select or deselect one or more of the following design properties:

Allow design locking
If you enable design element locking, designers will have the ability to lock and unlock any of the design elements in a database. A designer might want lock a design element to ensure he or she has exclusive ownership of it and to prevent others from modifying it.

Inherit design from master template
If a database is governed by a design template, any changes you make are written over by the master design when all databases are synchronized with the template. (See Refreshing the design of a database.) To prevent a whole database from being governed by the design template, deselect "Inherit design from design template."

Template name
If the database is inheriting the design from a master template, enter the name of the master template, for example SdtR6Mail.

Refresh design on admin server only
Select this option if you want design refreshes to only occur on the administration server for the database.

Database file is a master template
If the database is used as a template, you can enter the template name. From within this design property, you can further modify the specified database template by selecting:


List in Database Catalog
Check this item to make the database appear in the Database Catalog. You can enter the name of the category under which you would like the database to appear in the Categories field.

Show in 'Open Database' dialog
Select this option to make the database show up when users choose File - Database - Open.

Do not mark modified documents as unread
If the unread status of modified documents is unimportant or if the database resides on a server that users don't access directly, turn off unread tracking for all documents in a database to conserve disk processing time. This setting affects all views in the database. Users see only new documents as unread; modified documents do not appear as unread.

Include in multi-database indexing
Select this option if you want the database included in the Domain Index (for Search Site and Domain Search).

Multilingual database
If the database was designed for multiple languages, you can select this option to change the language (continent and country) that you want the database to use. For more information, see Creating multilingual applications if you have installed Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help. Or, go to the Documentation Library on the Lotus Developer Domain to download or view Lotus Domino Designer 6 Help.

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