Welcome to the #dominoforever Product Ideas Forum! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.
For more information and upcoming events around #dominoforever, please visit our Destination Domino Page
I ask that HCL doesn't implement this for the following reasons:
Design locking is there to lock design elements, not control inheritance.
An "incomplete design object" shouldn't be in a live template. If the design element were in a test template then you may still want your test DBs to inherit from it.
If someone creates a new DB, or replaces a DB design, from a template with design elements locked then that DB would have missing design element's and will not work.