Domino Code Fragment

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Deleting Fields Permanently From a Database		Date*
10/29/2025		Source (or email address if you prefer)*
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IP address:.172.71.254.249
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If you are looking for a clean and easy way to delete "obsolete" fields from the listing of available fields for a given database, follow this tip.		Type*
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(Misc)
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1) If you have documents that contain that particular field then you must remove the field from the documents in question. You can achieve this with a macro that performs a

FIELD [fieldname] :=@DeleteField.

2) When all documents are free of the offending field, it should disappear when you compact the database.