>I'm dealing with local views, and, knock on wood!, it looks like it works now.
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>The thing that I last did, was to copy the DBC along with the off line view tables
every time I downloaded a record set.
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>I did not do this originally because I had only one form for files download and for subset selection (setting the view parameters), and that required the DBC to be open, so I could not copy it. Now, I changed the design to copy all files after exiting the form that creates the offline tables. I don’t like the new user interface, because it presents two sets of messages for something that is one process, but I can’t think of anything better for the moment.
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>Copying the DBC only once on each laptop, seemed to work (i.e. I could open and modify the off line records), but uploading of data failed most of the time with index, or inconsistency, or 1547 errors...
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>Thanks for showing interest,
>Doru.
Hi Doru,
Rick Strahl mentioned offline views in a recent message (thread#
364380 message#
364740). You might want to ask him directly what his experiences have been.
Regards. Al
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