Feedback needed for a new OpenNTF project...

I have been trying to finish this for a couple of weeks in my free time (did I say free time?)... I have some code fragments for that and I need to combine them all.

Anyway, This is a very simple database, But it will be very useful for me and I hope for others... Before going forward, I need some feedback about it. The database is called TestCopier . The purpose of this application is to create test/development databases from production ones. The following screen shows a preview.

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Some features in my mind:

  • Percentage is important, but it's not the first X%. There is a randomizing algorithm to find different sets each run.
  • The copied documents will have the exact same UNID with the source. However, the database will have different replica id.
  • I'm planning to use Lotusscript, but it might be changed.
  • User can save this profile for future uses.
  • Delete attachments in copied docs would be possible (by David Leedy).

Now there are more complicated possibilities:

  • Instead of forms, I can use only formulas. So it would be more flexible but we will lose "copy the rest" feature.
  • Cross key lookups (by Nathan): Pickup some field values from, say, Customer docs and lookup them in some view (e.g. get selected customers' order documents).
  • Run some kind of formula to profile documents to change profile document values in test databases. So you can preserve those changes each time you need it.
  • Run some kind of formula to make changes every document, so you can alter some server/DB/Name references for copied documents.

These are all in my mind for now.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

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