Use the Domino® Administrator
to create a database. You can use one of Domino's templates to create
a database or you can choose Blank to use a "blank" template.
About this task
You must have the Domino Designer
client installed to make design changes to the database you create.
Many
of the templates that ship with Domino are
master templates. Changes made to a master template are passed on
to any databases created from that template unless you specify otherwise.
If you plan to customize a database and want to prevent design changes,
either deselect the Inherit future design changes option
after you select a template, or deselect Inherit design
from master template on the Design tab
of the Database Properties box for the database.
Procedure
- From the Domino Administrator,
choose .
Table 1. Options in the
New dialog box
Field |
Action |
Server |
Do one:
- Select Local to store the database locally on your hard drive.
- Enter the name of a server on which you want to store the database.
|
Title |
Enter a database title. You can use a maximum
of 96 characters |
File name |
Use the default file name or specify a unique
file name of fewer than 32 characters, followed by the extension .NSF.
If you are creating the database locally, specify a drive and directory
in which to store the new database. For example, C:/Databases/mydbs.nsf.
Otherwise, the database is stored in the Data directory. If you are
creating the database on a server, specify the server and directory
in which to store the database. |
Create full-text index for searching |
Choose this option to enable full text searching
on your database. Full-text searching increases the speed of a text
search. |
- Optional: Click Encryption if
you want to encrypt the database and require an appropriate user ID
in order to open the database.
- Optional: Click Advanced to
set advanced database properties for the database you are creating.
Table 2. Advanced database properties
Field |
Action |
Server |
Specify the name of the server that contains
the template you are using to create the database. |
Template |
Choose a template from the list or choose Blank if
you do not want to use a template. |
Show advanced templates |
Choose this option to select from all available Domino templates. |
Inherit future design changes |
Choose this option to update the database design
when the server task runs at night. |
- Select Inherit future design changes if
you want your database design to get updated when the nightly server
task runs.
- Check Create full-text
index for searching to speed searches on your new database.
What to do next
You can customize the ACL for a database that you create
by updating the template's ACL with an entry that you specify. That
is, you can specify an ACL entry such as [Alan Smythe/Sales/UK]
and
have that value copied when you create the NSF database. For information,
see the topics that reference CreateFromTemplate
in IBM® Domino Designer 9.0.1 Social
Edition Help.