>I have an app running on a network and copies of the system on several laptops. The laptop users need to update the central system periodically via floppy or email,and themselves need to be updated from the central system.
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>Up to now I have used a date/time stamp on records which are transferred betwen users provided they are "new" to the system since the previous transfer.
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>I am wondering whether there is a better way of doing this (like in Lotus Notes) where similar systems can check for new records and transfer themselves between systems at periodic intervals.
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>Has anyone experience of a similar problem and a solution to it?
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>Regards
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>Bob McGilvray
I assume that Lotus Notes would use a similar system internally. The date/time stamp seems to be the safest way to proceed, and your strategy seems solid.
But you may also want to read the manual for offline views. Perhaps VFP can take over part of the programmer's work this way.
Hilmar.
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