You can create an offline (local) duplicate of any HCL Notes® application you use. Such a duplicate is called a replica.
The following Replication topics are for more advanced Notes® users.
Replication allows you to keep a local version of a Notes® application on your hard disk drive. The local version is identical to the application on a server, so you can make changes to one version, and those changes will appear in both the local and server versions of the application. Replication is a great tool to have when working with large documents or applications, since the local version, or replica, of an application can open documents and views much faster than the server version, which has to open documents and views over a network.
This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes® replication, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
The Replication and Sync page lets you synchronize your replicas of HCL Notes® applications with those applications on one or more servers, and lets you continue other work while Notes copies changes from one application to the other. This allows users on different networks, in a variety of places, to share the same information.
A replica has the same replica ID as the original application. This distinguishes a replica from a copy of an application made by clicking File > Application > New Copy.
You can use the Basics page of the Replication Options dialog box to customize an individual local replica of an HCL Notes® application. You can choose whether to apply settings to the selected replica in the current location only, or in all locations.
The Replication History dialog box shows a list of replication events called entries. Each entry shows when and with which server an application last replicated, and whether data was sent or received. Some entries have an asterisk (*), which indicates that the replica is fully up-to-date with other servers.
You can use the Space Savers page of the Replication Options dialog box to control how much of each document is received in the selected replica each time it replicates. Options on the Space Savers page apply to the selected replica in all locations.
You can use the Send page of the Replication Settings dialog box to prevent deletions, changes in the applications title and catalog information (and application template name), and local security properties from replicating to other replicas.
You can use the Advanced page of the Replication Options dialog box to specify a computer and control some of the information received from replicas on one or more servers.