OK. We (that is the Dev Team and I) hit an interesting situation which turns out to be a bug in R8.5.
Apparently, if a field is deleted and the database replicates with other servers the field will replicate back into the form regardless of time stamps, etc. We tested with varying the ACLs, advanced replication settings, just about everything we could think of. No matter what we did the deleted field would reappear.
After much wrangling and gnashing of teeth we called IBM and opened an incident and were advised that this is a known issue and should be addressed in one of the upcoming point releases.
The workaround for us was to delete the data in the field (null field) and replicate. Honestly (no bad feeling to the Dev Team) I don't think that using the absence of a field for view selection formula was the way to go. Now its checking that the field is not null...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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