[AccessD] Access XP Developer and replication manager

No, I haven't.  When I've used replication, I didn't try to do it on a
schedule because I had no control over the users' schedules.
Procedurally, our users were instructed to sync their replica at the
beginning of each session to get the latest updates and at the end of a
session to upload their own changes.  You could set up code to sync the
database when they opened it, but there is at least a slight delay
involved with that.
 
Charlotte Foust

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Doug Murphy [mailto:doug at murphyscreativity.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:36 PM
	To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
	Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access XP Developer and replication
manager
	
	

	Charlotte,

	 

	Thank you.  I guess my ignorance is going to show here but that
is how I learn, sometimes.  My objective, I think, is to have the
replication manager on the user's system so I can set up the replicas on
the various computers and set up the synchronization schedule.  From
what I understand if I use the Access menu I can make the replicas and
put them on the various computers but I can not get automatic
synchronization, or indirect synchronization.  It seems like a real
waste to put the full developer edition on a computer just to get the
replication manager tool, but this is a MS product.

	 

	From the ADH it looks like I could do everything through use of
the Jet Replication Object and some code, but I was looking for a user
friendly way of doing this.  Have you had any experience with managing
synchronization this way?

	 

	Doug

	 

	 

	 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
	Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:57 PM
	To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
	Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access XP Developer and replication
manager

	 

	Replication manager is an administrative tool, not an end user
tool.  The users of your app will be able to synchronize without any
kind of replication manager because replicas have the capability of
synchronizing built in.

	 

	Charlotte Foust

		-----Original Message-----
		From: Doug Murphy [mailto:doug at murphyscreativity.com] 
		Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:54 PM
		To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
		Subject: [AccessD] Access XP Developer and replication
manager

		Hi List,

		I have what seem like a simple question but I don't seem
to be able to find the answer.  I have Office XP Developer.  I am
looking at the use of replication to keep several users synchronized on
a really slow network plus be able to synchronize lap tops when they
dial in.  I got interested in this method after reading Arthur Fuller's
article in "Inside Microsoft Access", March edition.  I also read the
chapter in the ADH on replication to get additional information.  What I
have been trying to determine is can I distribute the Replication
Manager tool that comes with the Developer Edition with my database.  It
seems like this is the easiest way to set up the replication and
synchronization schedule on the users system.  I found an article on the
web for access 97 that seems to indicate that Replication Manager is
distributable but nothing on XP and have found nothing in any of my XP
literature of help files.

		Has anyone had experience with this tool and been able
to distribute it or does the user need to have the MOD on their machine?

		Thanks in advance for your assistance.

		Doug

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