Hi all
I would like to hear about different approach of data synchronize between
FM databases. Plug-ins ? Export & Import data ? External software ?

Thanks in advance for any help

Shai

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shai Ben Mordechai (Rosenblum) <gla (AT) actcom (DOT) co.il> wrote:

If you have a small scale need, imports/exports can work.

If you have large scale needs and want to do it behind the scenes with
minimal user interaction, and have a large budget and a lot of developer
expertise, take a look at SyncDek at:

www.worldsync.com

Some clients use Terminal Services or Citrix (or TS AND Citrix). Reports
are that FM7 performance hosted over a WAN is much improved over 6.

And some clients just go with a web interface, preferring to keep their
databases at home.

Lynn Allen
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Allen & Allen Semiotics www.semiotics.com
FSA Associate Filemaker Design & Consulting

If you're small scale, one inexpensive solution ($5 per db per month)
is to set up one database (or set of dbs) and have it hosted on a third
party server, there are a couple good ones out there. Then you don't
need to synchronize because everyone's using the same dbs.

Web interface or server solutions assume access to either, not always there.

In my case, I take a copy of a file with me on my laptop, while the
primary stays in the office. Both are routinely used during the day,
adding and modifying.

I developed a scheme by which anything added to or modified in the
portable file is appropriately imported to the stationary one, which is
then written back to the laptop, so that each day the two files start out
identical.

Appropriate fields are needed in each table to identify each record by
which machine created it and which modified it, and scripts to separately
handle new records for an add import and modified records for an update
import.

I can tell you that it works fine in our two-person operation.

Matt

shai Ben Mordechai (Rosenblum) wrote: