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CONFIGURING Configuring the DOLS subscription
You choose configuration settings for the subscription in the Offline Subscription Configuration Profile document. You must edit and save a configuration document in every subscription even if you make no changes to the document. A subscription can have only one configuration document, even if the subscription has multiple databases. The configuration document must be stored in the main database. The main database is the database in the subscription from which the user downloads the subscription.
You can change configuration settings even after users have downloaded the subscription.
To edit the configuration document
1. Copy the appropriate design elements into the main database. For instructions, see the related topics.
2. Open the database in IBM® Notes®.
3. Choose Actions -> Edit Offline Configuration to open the document. Note that some of the fields have default values, which you can change. You can use wild card characters in any field.
4. Click the Basics tab. The name of the main database should be in the Subscription title field. If it is not, enter it.
5. Click the Services tab and fill in the following fields.
Table 1. Services options
| Name of Field | Action |
Domino® services to install offline
- Basic services (required)
- Full-Text Indexing
- LotusScript® and unscheduled agents
- Java™ classes and applets
- Custom Services
- MAPI enablement
- Default Language
| The offline subscription may need support for full-text indexing, LotusScript and unscheduled agents (such as Web open), Java back-end classes and applets, MAPI enablement, or custom services.
Select the appropriate boxes so that only files the users actually need are downloaded to their machine.
MAPI enablement is available only when you use the Extended Mail Template (MAIL6EX.NTF) for Web mail.
Choose a default language for the Web Control menu and the Domino Sync Manager. Users can override this setting by selecting a different language from the Web Control menu. |
| Custom services to install offline | This field is available only when you select the Custom services check box.
Enter the name of custom service files to be unpacked and executed on the user's computer during installation of the subscription. Custom services have the following syntax:
CustomServiceName [Setup.exe [SetupArguments]]
For example:
mycustomname mysetupfile.exe -z -r -u
If you specify more than custom service, separate the services with commas. For example:
mycustomname mysetupfile.exe -z -r -u, mycustomname2 mysetupfile2.exe -z -r -u
For more information on custom file sets, see the related topics. |
6. Click the Schedule tab and complete the following fields. Note that the user can override most of these fields from within the Subscription Properties box of the Domino Sync Manager.
Table 2. Schedule options
| Name of Field | Action |
| Type of schedule |  |
| Daily | Select this field, then specify the time of day you want synchronization to occur. |
| Weekly | Select this field, then check the days you want the synchronization to occur. |
| Monthly | Select this field, then specify the day of the month you want the synchronization to occur. |
| Start time | Enter the time of day for the subscription to start scheduled synchronization. |
| Frequency |  |
| Repeating schedule | Select this box if you want synchronization to repeat at certain intervals after the initial start time. |
| Interval | Specify the time between repeating synchronizations. Enter a number and then choose either minutes or hours. For example, you can enter 180 minutes or 3 hours. |
| Limitations |  |
| Stop synchronization at | Specify the time you want the synchronization to stop. |
| Recurrence exceptions |  |
| Schedule disabled | Select this box to make a disabled synchronization schedule the default state. The subscription only synchronizes once, when it is installed. The user can override this setting in the offline synchronization properties. |
7. Click the Sync Options tab and complete the following fields:
8. Click the Admin tab and complete the following fields:
Table 5. Admin tab options
| Name of field | Action |
| Push subscription settings: | Push subscription settings to Domino Sync Manager.
Select this box to push changes made to the active Off-Line Subscription Configuration Profile Document (on the server), down to the Domino Sync Manager (on the client), without requiring a reinstallation of the subscription.
The following are the only settings and actions that cannot be changed on the user's computer unless the user deletes and reinstalls the subscription.
- Encryption
- Per-user shared subscriptions
- Multi-user data directories
- Pass-through server settings
- Optional TCP/IP addresses
- A change in the subscription title
- Adding new services or custom filesets
- Deleting or moving the main.nsf
Force user to accept subscription changes. This box is only visible when Push subscription settings to Domino Sync Manager is selected. Select this box to force the user to accept changes in the Offline Subscription Configuration Profile document. Not selecting this box allows users to prevent the changes from occurring on their subscriptions. |
| Read only subscription settings: | Make schedule read-only - Select this box to disable the scheduled replication settings in the Properties dialog - Schedule tab of the subscription on the user's computer. You can push this to users by selecting it before they install the subscription, or by using thePush subscription settings feature.
Make sync options read-only - Select this box to disable the Sync Options settings in the Properties dialog - Sync Options tab of the subscription on the user's computer. You can push this to users by selecting it before they install the subscription, or by using the Push subscription settings feature. |
| Pass-through server settings: | Select this box to use a pass-through server to connect to the IBM Domino server that hosts the subscription. Enter the name of the pass-through server. |
| Network Settings: | Use optional TCP/IP address to connect to destination server. Select this box to provide primary and/or secondary TCPIP addresses for the destination Domino server hosting the subscription. This is especially useful for users who access the server through both an intranet and an extranet. If the primary address is not reachable, the Domino Sync Manager tries the secondary address to connect to the server.
Then enter the name of the primary and secondary addresses. If users connect to the host server through a pass-through server, the addresses must be for the pass-through server.
Tip: Alternatively, an administrator can configure these settings for all the subscriptions hosted on a particular server by adding addresses to the $DOLS_TCPIPAddress and $DOLS_TCPIPAddress2 settings in the server's NOTES.INI file. |
| Security Settings: | Enable this setting so that the user's offline Internet password remains synchronized with their online Internet password. This setting works only when the Offline Configuration document Security Settings field Keep Internet Password Synchronized is enabled. |
9. (Optional) At the end of the configuration document, select whether to display the default download page or create your own download page. The download page is what users see while they're installing a subscription. It's useful for showing instructions, company graphics, warnings, or tips. Do one of the following:
- Leave Display default download page contents selected to have the download page contain the default text and graphics. You can add text, HTML, or images in the rich-text field that follows the default text and graphics.
- Select Display only the custom contents below to create a download page. A rich-text field appears in which you can add text, HTML, or images.
10. Save and close the configuration document.
11. Save and close the subscription.
12. (Optional) Customize the subscription.
Related concepts
Copying DOLS design elements into the main database
Optional tasks for DOLS administrators
Increasing the server output timeout for DOLS downloads
Related tasks
Adding a directory catalog to a DOLS subscription
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