AboutPaski K. Paskaradevan Expertise I have 3 + years in Lotus Notes application development. I am a CLP R5 Application Development. I can answer any question pertaining to application development.
Experience R5 CLP. In addition, I have a bachelors degree in Engineering and a MBA.
Question While I am working to design a form, I might have created some new fields, then delete it from the form, but those deleted fields are still in the list of references, is there a way I can clean them up? Cleanup the orphan?
Answer Hi,
If you create a field,and then delete it, it will remain in the reference if you have created a document before deleting the field.
I am assuming that you are doing this in a development database. So, the best way to clean this up is to delete ALL documents and then make a design only copy of the database. The new copy should not have the fields you deleted.
If you still find them, then delete the new database, close notes. Delete the cache.ndk file. Re open notes and then make another design only copy. That should fix this.
If this is a live database, then make a design only copy and check for the deleted fields. If you still find them, close notes, delete cache.ndk and then re open notes, create a design only copy of the empty database and check.
If you have documents in the database with values in the deleted fields, you can never get rid of these fields from the reference.
