BCM - Sharing data in a network

Notlev · External Since: May 15, 2007 Posts: 3

Hello there.

I'm new to BCM and I find it fantastic. I'm used to work with a third party
product that only gives me half the features that BCM does.
My only problem (so far) is to share data with my collegue.
We run a very small company with two (2) laptops and an old PC as file/print
server. I understand that I can use the Admin tool to put a database on this
server, and that we both can work on the same database. My question is; "What
happens when we get offline?"
Is there no sync between the server version and our local versions?
Is there a solution that any of you know off (Microsoft or third party)?

Best regards,
Henrik Notev

Jerry Blake · External Since: Feb 05, 2007 Posts: 44

Hi Henrik,

With BCM 2007, we added support for offline, when your client box can not
talk to the shared database. We create a local copy of your shared db, for
use when roaming. Any changes down to this "offline" database, will get
transfered back to the shared db once you reconnect. Any conflicts in the
data change will take you into our conflict resoultion dailogs.

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"Notlev" wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> I'm new to BCM and I find it fantastic. I'm used to work with a third party
> product that only gives me half the features that BCM does.
> My only problem (so far) is to share data with my collegue.
> We run a very small company with two (2) laptops and an old PC as file/print
> server. I understand that I can use the Admin tool to put a database on this
> server, and that we both can work on the same database. My question is; "What
> happens when we get offline?"
> Is there no sync between the server version and our local versions?
> Is there a solution that any of you know off (Microsoft or third party)?
>
> Best regards,
> Henrik Notev

Samvnw51 · External Since: Apr 10, 2007 Posts: 29

It does what you need already. When your PC connects to a remote BCM db, it
still maintains a synched local copy for offline use. If you work off line,
it synchs up with the remote db when you get back on the network. We've been
testing it and it works.

"Notlev" wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> I'm new to BCM and I find it fantastic. I'm used to work with a third party
> product that only gives me half the features that BCM does.
> My only problem (so far) is to share data with my collegue.
> We run a very small company with two (2) laptops and an old PC as file/print
> server. I understand that I can use the Admin tool to put a database on this
> server, and that we both can work on the same database. My question is; "What
> happens when we get offline?"
> Is there no sync between the server version and our local versions?
> Is there a solution that any of you know off (Microsoft or third party)?
>
> Best regards,
> Henrik Notev

jardo · External Since: Aug 27, 2009 Posts: 1

Sam,
I am trying this out our office. Did you simply make a backup to the remote
server and then redirect BCM to that file on the server? Or do you need a
fully licensed copy of Outlook 2007 running BCM on that server?

Jardo

"Samvnw51" wrote:

> It does what you need already. When your PC connects to a remote BCM db, it
> still maintains a synched local copy for offline use. If you work off line,
> it synchs up with the remote db when you get back on the network. We've been
> testing it and it works.
>
> "Notlev" wrote:
>
> > Hello there.
> >
> > I'm new to BCM and I find it fantastic. I'm used to work with a third party
> > product that only gives me half the features that BCM does.
> > My only problem (so far) is to share data with my collegue.
> > We run a very small company with two (2) laptops and an old PC as file/print
> > server. I understand that I can use the Admin tool to put a database on this
> > server, and that we both can work on the same database. My question is; "What
> > happens when we get offline?"
> > Is there no sync between the server version and our local versions?
> > Is there a solution that any of you know off (Microsoft or third party)?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Henrik Notev