Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Sep 13 13:12:11 CDT 2007
Master copy? You mean of the data or of the UI? If you have a combined database replicated, you're looking at trouble, not matter how you handle it. I hope you don't mean the *Design Master* because nobody EVER works directly with that one. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Julie Reardon Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:58 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Multiple Users Question - Replicated Database Hmmmmmm. I may have just figured it out. I can have them create the inspections on the master copy on the server, where I assign a unique inspection id, then download those inspections to the tablet pc. That way, there won't be any duplicates. Julie Reardon PRO-SOFT of NY, Inc. 44 Public Square, Suite 5 Watertown, NY 13601 Phone: 315.785.0319 Fax: 315.785.0323 NYS IT Contract#CMT026A NYS Certified Woman-Owned Business www.pro-soft.net -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Julie Reardon Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:45 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Multiple Users Question - Replicated Database Hi, I am kind of stuck on an issue and wondered if anyone has done this. My housing inspection software is being used locally and is working great. However, when I wrote the software, they were only using one tablet pc and replicating with the master copy on the server. Now they want to send multiple inspectors out there with tablet pc's. My problem is that when they create an inspection, I assign a unique inspection id. That id follows the record through the inspection process, and then onto the Work Order that is created when there are repairs needed. If I have multiple inspectors with tablet pc's, I can't create the unique inspection id (automatically increments by one) when the inspection is created on the tablet pc, because I won't know which id each of the tablet pc's are using until the users synch with the copy on the server. Multiple inspectors means duplicate inspection id's. Is this making sense? I need a way to create a temporary inspection id that is unique and then when the inspector synchs with the server, a permanent id is assigned to the record. Anyone run into this? Is this the way to go about doing this? I'm not necessarily looking for code, just some opinions. Julie Reardon PRO-SOFT of NY, Inc. 44 Public Square, Suite 5 Watertown, NY 13601 Phone: 315.785.0319 Fax: 315.785.0323 NYS IT Contract#CMT026A NYS Certified Woman-Owned Business www.pro-soft.net -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com