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How to get a grip on advanced database properties and make changes on multiple databases at once.

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I found a question in the "Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum" on IBM developerWorks about advanced database properties and inheritance of those from templates.

Advanced database properties can be difficult to manage for large Lotus Notes & Domino installations as there is no tool within the Domino Administrator Client that will give you an overview of the advanced database properties for databases. There is also no tool within the Domino Administrator Client that will help you change the advanced database properties on multiple databases.


When you configure the DomainPatrol scanner to read database details (Figure 1) the advanced database properties will be stored in the database document (Figure 2) in the DomainPatrol database.

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Figure 1.

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You can use the information in the fields from the "Advanced Options" tab in the database document and create a customized folder where this information is displayed. (Figure 3). Base the new folder on the "Databases" view (Figure 4, Figure 5). This will copy the action tools including "Modify Database Option ..." to the new folder from the "Databases" view. Then add columns to the new folder to display the advanced database options that you need. (Figure 6).

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Select the database document that you want to work with from the "Databases" view and drop them on the new folder (Figure 7).

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Figure 7

Now you can select databases in the new folder and change an advanced database property for all the selected databases at once (Figure 7, Figure 8).

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Figure 9

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At one time in my life I was teaching:

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