I did all that

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I did all that

Thanks for a very thorough answer, Mr. Guirard.

Andre Guirard wrote:

>
> For compatibility with older model clients,
> for performance, and to let the server
> calculate view indexes in advance of people
> using the view, the shared columns are not
> loaded at runtime;
>

Yup, I knew that.

>
> the shared column design element is just a
> convenient way of modifying the column that's
> stored as part of the view design. When you
> update the shared column in your template, it
> updates all the views and folders in the
> template. You say that this did occur.
>

Yes it did.

>
> Then when you replace design in your
> application, the modified views and folders
> containing the new column design, would
> normally overwrite the ones in the app.
>

Yes.

>
> Either this is not happening, or you're not
> seeing the results right away. Exit the
> application and reopen it, to make sure
> you're not seeing cached design elements.
>

I did that. I even restarted Lotus Notes and the Designer to see if this was a cache problem.

>
> Use Domino Designer to check the modified
> timestamps of the view design elements in the
> application -- maybe the design replace
> failed to update them. Are they possibly set
> to not inherit design changes, or to inherit
> them from a different template?
>

They are not protected from design replace and they are not set to receive updates from other templates. The timestamps are consistent with the date and time I did the design refresh.

The only way I managed to get around this was to delete the shared column from all the view, create a new shared column pointing to the new field I wanted to display and then insert that shared column in to every single view. Kind of defeats the purpose of shared columns, if you ask me.

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Hogne

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