Freak In, Notes Out

Today i had weird case.

A design replace failed with the error 'cant add roles'. Actually i could have bet that the design had been replaced successfully but beeing busy and making things right i replaced once more and the error came up and opening the database made clear there was no new design. So first things to do is checking ACL, counting Roles, searching role limitation in ACLs for Lotus Notes and it was 75 to 75.

That is always a good time geeting mad about the application design team, who on earth needs 75 roles for an application. Consider me as administrator for handling 75 roles, since the same template is used in 32 diffrent context it makes 32 * 75 and this role-loving chief developer created some more of our application templates. So im getting mad about the development team atleast 2 times a day.

But this actually did not help me with my design replace. I thought deleting the roles in the database should help and through the design replace the roles would be imported in the database again.

It did not help, having deleted nearly 60 roles should be okay, and the template had less then 60 so the limit could not be reached, but the same error came up again. What i did next was wait, wait for a miraciulous refresh of the ACL index, which did not happen, i then compacted, fixed, und updalled the database without success.

I finally deleted all roles in the template and now the design replace finished without error and i had been right the design replace hab gone though before, because no views, forms, pages had been updated, deleted or added, but the new design was visible just now. If anybody has an idea why this is in this way i am gratefull to hear.

Untill then i worry about the now misssing roles ..