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You can avoid replication conflicts by locking documents you edit in a replica. For more information, see Locking documents.
To fix conflicts that do occur (if you are the person in charge of eliminating conflicts in an application), examine each conflict and decide whether you want to keep the main document or the response, depending on which is more timely and accurate. Then delete either the main document or the response as described below.
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After two or more users edit and save the same document, at the next replication Notes designates the most frequently edited and saved document as the main document. (If each has been edited and saved the same number of times, Notes designates the most recently saved document as the main document.) Notes shows the other(s) as responses to the main document with a diamond symbol in the left margin.
Deletions are a special case. If one user edits and saves a document in a replica and another user then deletes it, the deletion takes precedence. If, however, a document is edited and saved more than once, or if the document is edited and saved after the deletion, the edited document takes precedence.
Note An application designer can specify that Notes merge conflicting edits into a single document whenever possible. In this case, if two users edit different fields in the same document, Notes saves the editorial changes to each field in a single document. However, if two users edit the same field in the same document, Notes saves one document as a main document and the other as a response as described above.
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How Notes treats save conflicts
When more than one user opens the same document to edit, Notes designates the document that has been saved first as the main document. When another user tries to save the same document, Notes prompts the user to save it as a Save Conflict document. If the user does, Notes shows it as a response to the main document with a diamond symbol in the left margin.
To save information from a response in the main document and delete the response
1. Open the response document that contains information you want to save.
2. Select the information you want to copy and choose Edit - Copy.
3. Open the main document in Edit mode.
4. Place the cursor where you want the information and choose Edit - Paste.
5. Choose File - Save to save the main document.
6. Select the response document.
7. Choose Edit - Delete.
8. In a non-mail application, choose View - Refresh to delete the response document.
To delete the main document and make a response the main document
1. Edit the response you want to make the main document.
2. Choose File - Save to save the response. It becomes a main document.
3. If there are other response documents, do the following:
5. Choose Edit - Delete.
6. In a non-mail application, choose View - Refresh to delete the unwanted main document.
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