Archiving Versions with Templates

Summary

This chapter introduced you to the object store of a Domino database and provided you with key information for creating and managing your databases. The section "Working with Database Properties" explained the ways in which you can optimize the performance of your database using the advanced properties. The section "Replication Settings" helped you to understand the way that Domino distributes the changes and additions made to replicas of databases. This information gives you a solid base from which to move forward in to the world of development with Domino.

We also covered templates, which are useful for many reasons. They can serve as design repositories that can leverage the developer's time and enforce consistency and standards. They can also propagate design changes of an entire class of databases or a single database throughout an organization. This chapter showed various techniques of inheriting designs from templates, both of an entire database and of individual design elements. This chapter also illustrated a technique of archiving versions of a database design. Templates are versatile, and it is worth your time to learn how to work with them.