Am I making this too hard? Am I forgetting anything?
Yes
Did anyone have the patience to read this tedious post?
Barely, espcially since your usual biting wit was not present in it usual splendor.
1. So far, so good.
I will then have to redirect my copy of Amazing Charts to the database on the laptop, correct?
Only if your laptop was on your network with AC pointing to the server database. Otherwise, it will still be pointing to the AC database on C:\Program Files\Amazing Charts. Adding databases or overwriting databases will not change where AC is looking for its data if it had been looking there before. Besides, it is automatic. If AC can't find the database, the window will pop up asking you to browse to it.
3. Cool
After I complete my outpatient rounds, I will use a flash drive to save a backup of the Amazing Six folders that are on my office server, and a backup of all the new patient data in the Amazing Six folders that are on my laptop.
Sounds good. But, why the flash drive? Why not on the desktop of each respective computer? Or both to be doubly safe. Or you can run AmazingUtilities, and it will make backups for you in the same folder.
At what point do I redirect my laptop to the server database?
So, it does sound like you usually have your laptop on the LAN. Which means that when you first use AC on your laptop when you disconnect, AC will ask you where you want to connect. But, for this question, yes, you would need to reconnect to the network and the server databases in order to sync with them.
If either of the databases have been corrupted, I can just copy the versions on my flash drive back into their respective folders and everything should be copacetic, oui?, until I can get with Amazing Charts customer support.
No. I would think you would copy the laptop backups (which have the good server version PLUS all of the new notes) into the laptop AND the server. This way you do not have to worry about how you will get the new notes into the server.
If it all goes kerblooey, I guess I will just copy the new notes to notepad, redirect to the server database (obliterating the old notes, correct?), and regenerate the notes on an office PC.
Huh? You lost me on that one. Notepad?
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I am still not sure why users (depending on how often they round outside of the office) don't just copy their network database to their laptop, do rounds, come back to the office and copy the database back to the network. Seems a lot simpler to me. Of course, it would only work if you were a solo provider and no one else was using the network computers entering data while you were out.
