>>How should different data paths be handled in Visual FoxPro 5?
>>
>>My department has a Marketing Information and Planning application written in FoxPro for Windows 2.6a.
>>Our tables are located on the network for most of our users. However, our executive staff has laptops
>>that are removed from the network whenever they want to work out of the office. In this situation, they
>>copy the necessary tables to their laptop's hard disk before the undock from the network. This application
>>is also on the computers in our field offices.
>>
>>In FPW 2.6 we have a data path variable pointing to our data. It can be different for development mode,
>>networked mode and standalone mode. Since the database path is "hardcoded" into the .DBC in VFP5, how
>>should the three modes be handled?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Dan Rhymes
>
>Dan,
>
>In VFP 5.0 you can create an off line view. This was designed specifically for situations like this.
>
>George

George,

Off line views would work for our "Laptoppers"; but, our state offices get data via weekly and monthly download from an email program called BeyondMail. How would I set up the databases on their machines? Since the majority of them have only desktop
machines, we have restricted them to placing their tables in a C:\GROUP\MIPS\DATA\ subdirectory. This is slowing changing - many
of the state offices are moving toward networking their offices. We would rather give them the choice of where they want to place
our application and it's data.

Thanks,

Dan