Unhiding your Design ...

Joe Pelzel

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Oct 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/12/95

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Is there anyway to Unhide a design in a database ?? We have created
several databases w/ hidden designs and lost the " unhidden " version
of the dbs after installin Win '95 ... thanks,

GaryG500

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Oct 15, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/15/95

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Hiding a design is always a permanent thing. You can never technically
get it back (Notes displays this message when you set the design option).
However, there is a little trick (no where documented that I have found),
that will let you get back a design.

The following steps should be performed locally, not at the server:

1) Create a new database (File-New-Database). Specify Blank as the design
template. Call the database TEMP.NSF.

2) After the new database is created, go to the ACL and make the Default
and your name Manager.

3) Go to the database you want to unhide. Choose File-New-Replica.
Specify TEMP.NSF as the database name to replicate to.

4) Notes will ask you if you want to overwrite the other TEMP.NSF, say
Yes.

5) After the replication, go to the new TEMP.NSF and you will be able to
access the design.

Note: This will give you access while you are local only. When you put
the new database back on the server, the design will be hidden again. You
should cut and paste each design element (Forms, Views, Macros, Shared
Fields, Icon, Help) from the new TEMP.NSF to a new blank database. This
will totaly remove the Hide feature from the design elements.

Good Luck,

Gary Glickman
E-Mail: garyg500 @ aol.com
Lotus Certified Notes Consultant
Lotus Certified Notes Application Developer

Glenn A. Thibert

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Oct 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/16/95

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Taken from GaryG500's log...

>
>Hiding a design is always a permanent thing. You can never technically
>get it back (Notes displays this message when you set the design option).
>However, there is a little trick (no where documented that I have found),
>that will let you get back a design.

Actually this is not true either. There is a way that you can change one
byte of the .nsf file using any disk editor, then copy the database and the
new copy will be completly unhidden. The only problem is I lost the text file
with the address and value of the byte to change :( I know it works because I
did it with a commercial database I bought that contained several errors in
it. Wish I could find that damn file... Lost it in a HD crash a while back.

Chris Fales

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Oct 17, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/17/95

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You need to subtract 20Hex from the value at binary address BC,
remove the database icon from your workspace and then add it back.

This will permanently unhide the design of the database.
I hear that this 'feature' will be removed from Notes4. Yippee...

Chris

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John Kvalheim

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Oct 18, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/18/95

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gat...@camlot.monsanto.com (Glenn A. Thibert) wrote:

>Taken from Joe Pelzel's log...

>>
>>Is there anyway to Unhide a design in a database ?? We have created
>>several databases w/ hidden designs and lost the " unhidden " version
>>of the dbs after installin Win '95 ... thanks,

>Take the hidden database design and declare it as a template in
>File, Database, Information, Design Template.

>Then create a new database based on the Blank template. Go into File,
>Database, Information, Design Template for this new database and tell it
>to inherit its design from the hidden template.

>Do a Design, Replace Design - and there you have it - the whole structure
>laid out in front of you.

This didn't work for us at our site (V3.30 on Windows W/S's) -
the last Replace Design step cannot locate the Template as it has
hidden design.

Our apparantly fool proof way is as follows (extract from our "Hints
'n Tips")

Full details:
You may occasionally make the near fatal mistake of hiding the design
of your database - if this happens, Notes provides no way out.
If you consider this method, do it against a replica of your database
- that way, if you screw up you still have a working Db.
Note - if you do it, its at your risk.
DO NOT DO THIS ON 3RD PARTY DB's THAT HAVE HAD THEIR
DESIGN HIDDEN FOR COPYRIGHT TYPE PURPOSES.

Solution:
Use Norton Disk Editor against the aaaa.nsf file and change offset BC
to read "00" (zerozero).
This SHOULD uncheck all of: Database ... Information ... "Other
settings"

Good luck.