Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Preventing Design Inheritance

Domino Designer enables you to restrict design inheritance on individual design elements or all design elements in a database. Inheritance is the process of distributing design changes (automatically or manually) to one or more databases that are set up to inherit some or all design elements from the template database. You can restrict design inheritance for individual design elements by selecting the option Prohibit Design Refresh or Replace to Modify. Optionally, you can also set the property Propagate This Prohibition of Design Change to propagate this setting to databases inheriting their designs. These settings can be set and modified on the design documents properties dialog (see Figure 2.6).

Figure 2.6. Design ...