As every morning, I read the new entries in the Lotus Software KnowledgeBase. Today I stumbled upon one entry and even reading it again and again, it still seems to be a bit obscure.

Deleting a person using Adminp process removes the user name from fields on custom application.

When a user is removed from the Domino Directory using the “Delete Person” button, AdminP removes the user’s name from a Names field in a custom application.

This is working as designed.

You need to change the ACL setting on any application where you don’t want specific Names fields updated :

Go to the application -> Access Control->Advanced-> Action.  Set this to “Do not modify Names Fields.” This setting prevents AdminP from modifying the Readers, Authors, and Names fields.

OK, this is clear so far. But then the next sentence

Another option is to set the field to “Modify all Readers and Authors fields,” which will prevent AdminP from modifying Readers and Authors fields.

What kind of logic is this? I explicit say “YES, go ahead and modify all Readers and Authors fields!!” and this will AdminP prevent from doing so ?? I don’t get it!

{Technote #1288486}