DATABASE MANAGEMENT
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. 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.

You can run the Designer task by using one of the following methods.

Running the Designer task using the Task - Start tool

1. From the Domino Administrator, select the server on which to run Designer.

2. Click the Server - Status tab.

3. In the task panel on the right, click Task - Start.

4. Select Designer and then click Start Task.

Running the Designer task using a console command

1. From the Domino Administrator, select the server on which to run the Designer task.

2. Click the Server - Status tab.

3. Click Console.

4. Enter the following command in the command line at the bottom of the console, and then press ENTER:


The following table describes the command line options you can use with the Designer task.
Command line optionDescription
-d directory nameSynchronizes the databases in a directory relative to the data directory. For example, to synchronize databases in the directory DATA\SALES, specify -d SALES.
-f filenameSynchronizes a specific database. For example, to synchronize the database DATA\SALES.NSF, specify -f SALES.NSF.
-i nameSynchronizes 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.
The following table shows an example of the -i command line option.
If the file SCHEDULE contains thiswherethen load design -i SCHEDULE is the same as this
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