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Status No Plans to Implement
Workspace Domino Designer
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 15, 2018

Allow resources from other databases

If you want to use the same code / resource in multiple databases (which do not inherit from the same template), you have to copy-paste the resource to all these databases. This makes it hard to maintain the resources.

With resources, I mean files, css, images, ... but also Also code libraries (lotusscript, java)

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    Thomas Hampel
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    Jan 8, 2020

    We all remember Single Copy Template (SCT) and how this worked out, right?

  • Admin
    Thomas Hampel
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    Oct 27, 2018

    Moving idea to product : Domino Designer

  • Guest
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    Jul 18, 2018

    Couple of reasons for not using templates:

    If you use template inheritance, the resources are in all databases separately instead of in one place.

    When changing the design, you have to wait until all relying databases are refreshed.

  • Guest
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    Jul 17, 2018

    Using templates recently delivers often broken code until you recompile all databases that inherit their resources from the template.

    Also this produces disk overload, if most of the databases are using the same template.

    Being able to load resources from another database will also reduce the cost of updating all dependend databases.

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2018

    @Guest (the commenter, not OP):  template inheritance can get pretty messy, and at least in the past I have been told to avoid that, because it can be buggy.
    I think it would be very useful to be able to call resources from other databases.

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2018

    Can you explain why you wouldn't want to use template inheritance for this?  Seems to me that using templates, even multiple templates to store design elements will meet this need.