Q: Design Elements getting signed randomly This morning my boss asked me if I was making changes in the Domino PNAB. I wasn't. I did make one change the day before. Well Designer is showing that I signed scores or hundreds of design elements in the address book, which I did NOT do, at least manually. 
We have seen this on and off for years now, and always just ignored it (my boss would resign the design. 
Has anyone else experienced this or know what could be the cause. I think I will probably have to open an PMR with IBM.

A: There could be a few causes. Ones that come to mind are design refresh occurring, auto-refresh from source control ODP and replication from another source. The User Detail on the database may be informative (Database Properties, second tab, User Detail...), it may show when it occurred, which could clarify things.

A: If you have Build Automatically enabled (I don't), that could cause issues with signing, especially if any change is detected by different signers. Notes/Designer 8.5.3 IF2 should fix an issue where just opening an NSF can causing a signing change for Java classes, but that should be fixed. As Paul mentions, watching out for any potential changes to an app, such as automatic import from ODP, etc., should be watched for. I'm rather leery of leaving Build Automatically on or anything making a change without my explicit direction. I mention this since my company still has a surprising number of older client versions.
Kathy Brown's blog post on the subject ca. pre- 8.5.3 IF2:
http://www.runningnotes.net/index.php/2013/08/29/mystery-application-breakage/
