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Status Under Consideration
Workspace Domino Designer
Categories LotusScript
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 21, 2019

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Conflict handling - add an option to merge a field (especially document history fields)

Many developers add a "history" field in their applications to document when/who updated a document and what happened.

This prevents the "Conflict Handling" form property "Merge Conflicts" option from working as there could always be a difference in this field even if otherwise the document could be merged.

To improve merging and reduce conflicts add a field option for merging

options should be:

1)  "ignore differences" in this field when merging documents. The winning document's field is used.

2) "merge field contents" - The contents of the field are merged. An entry is added to show the merge happened. Field contents would have to be in a specified format e.g. dd-mmm-yyy hh:mm:ss username - history text

3) a default option to work as it does now

Maybe a new "document history" field type would help resolve this situation. When entries are appended via LotusScript or @Formula the date and time and username are automatically prepended.

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  • Guest
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    |     Mar 14, 2023

    We need merge that works the use case is that I would like to update backend fields during daytime but that is almost impossible because I can't know if a document is opened thru a webbrowser and later saved that will then bringing back old values.

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 25, 2019

    I currently have a PMR ticket open with IBM.  "Merge Conflicts" is broken and I'm not sure where it broke.  But, this feature needs to be put back and make it work.  If IBM/HCL can't make this feature work properly again, I don't have much hope for this product further as replication is key to this technology. Without "Merge Conflicts", I don't have much choice to recommend a different platform for my clients...

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 22, 2019

    Document locking doesn't resolve the issue if you have remote users who aren't connected, or able to connect, to your server. 

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 21, 2019

    Best way to avoid conflicts is to "allow document locking" and apply an admin server to the Notes application.  Sure, you might get someone who doesn't close a document properly and leaves it "locked" but that is easy enough to deal with.

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