Pending Operations - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - SYSTEM Manual

eDirectory fields that you associate with GroupWise fields here are available for use in all
domains throughout your GroupWise system. You can also customize the GroupWise Address
Book for individual domains, as described in
Address Book," on page 92
2 Select the first available admin-defined field, then click Edit.
3 Select the eDirectory property that you want to associated with the admin-defined field, then
click OK.
4 To remove an admin-defined field, select the field, then click Clear.
You are prompted for whether to remove the corresponding values from user records. This
might be a time-consuming process.
5 Click Yes to clean up all obsolete references to deleted admin-defined fields in all user records.
or
Click No to perform the cleanup later.
At any time, you can click Cleanup to remove obsolete references to deleted admin-defined
fields from all user records. It is a good practice to run Cleanup periodically to ensure that the
admin-defined fields in ConsoleOne match the admin-defined fields that appear in user records.

4.5 Pending Operations

Pending operations are the results of administrative operations, such as adding GroupWise objects
and modifying GroupWise object properties, that have not yet been permanently written to the
appropriate GroupWise databases. While operations are pending, GroupWise data is not in a
consistent state.
For example, you can maintain any domain's objects you have administrative rights over. However,
because a secondary domain owns its own objects, any operation you perform from the primary
domain on a secondary domain's objects must be validated by the secondary domain. While the
operation is being validated, the Pending Operations dialog box displays object details and the
pending operation.
While the operation is pending, the object is marked Unsafe in the primary domain database. The
Operation field in the dialog box displays the pending operation. An unsafe object can have other
operations performed on it, such as being added to a distribution list; however, the object record is
not distributed to other domains and post offices in the system until it is marked Safe.
Section 6.1.1, "Adding eDirectory Fields to the
GroupWise System Operations 65