GETTING STARTED

Creating a database library to put similar databases in one place
A database library is a database that lists database links and uses replication ID numbers to locate databases, pertinent to your work, that reside on various servers. For example, you might put databases that deal with corporate policies and procedures in a corporate database library.

You can create a database library on a server, if you have access, so other users can use the library and add databases to it. You can also create a database library locally for your own use.

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To find out if you have access to create a database library on a server

You must have access privileges to create databases on a server, since a database library is actually a database itself.

1. Open the Domino Directory that lists the server where you want to create a database library.

2. Click the Servers view in the Domino Directory, and then locate and select the server where you want to create a library.

3. Double-click the selected server name to open the Server document.

4. Click the Security tab in the Server document.

5. In the Server Access section, check to see if your name or a group you are part of is listed in the "Create databases & templates" field. If it is then you can create a database on that server.

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To create a database library

When you create a database library you automatically become a librarian with Manager access in the ACL. The default access for a library created on a server is Author. The default access for a library created locally is Reader.

1. Choose File - Database - New.

2. Select Local in the Server field to store the database library on your hard disk, or select a server you can access to create the database on.

3. Enter a title for the database library in the Title field.

4. To change the default file name specify a unique, descriptive file name of fewer than 32 characters, followed by the extension .NSF in the "File Name" field.

5. Select "Show advanced templates" at the bottom of the New Database dialog box.

6. Select the Database Library template (DBLIB4.NTF) from the list of templates, and then click OK.

Note To prevent users from publishing databases in a library, change the Default access in the database library ACL to Reader. Then when a user with Reader access attempts to publish a database, Notes puts together an e-mail containing a request to publish a database that the user can send to the librarian of the database library.

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To assign librarians in a database library

Once you create a library, you should select librarians for the database. Librarians can publish databases and make other users librarians. Users you appoint as librarians must have Author access in the database library. You must have at least Editor access to add librarians to a database library.

1. Open the database library and click the Librarians view.

2. Choose Actions - Edit Librarians.

3. Enter the hierarchical names (for example, John Smith/B/ACME) of the users who you want to be librarians in the "Librarian list" field.


4. Click "Save Document" and then Close.

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