Well, funny you should mention that! I just used the Amazing Synchronizer to synchronize a bunch of nursing home notes, without a hitch.
I was going to try SyncToy, honest I was, Bert, but I was overtaken by events beyond my control.
I found out last night that today was the day for rounds on all three of the nursing homes I visit.
I was scheduled to see about 30 patients. The thought of jotting down notes at the nursing home, and then re-inputting all those notes when I got back was just too much for me. I just decided to go for it.
Before I left, I copied the entire Amazing Charts folder from the server, and pasted it into the Program Files folder on my laptop, replacing the copy that was already there. I then clicked on the Amazing Charts icon on my laptop, and Amazing Charts went through some kind of re-configuration. It finally prompted me about whether I was going to use this copy of Amazing Charts on a network or not, and I said "no", so that the laptop was now working independently of the network and the server.
After making this split, I created some fake patient records on both the laptop and the server, so that I could quickly tell later if the synchronization had been successful.
Rounding at the nursing home went smoothly. All the information from my office was seemingly contained on the laptop.
When I got back, I prepared to Synchronize.
First, I made a backup copy of the Amazing Charts folder on my laptop, with all its fresh and tasty nursing home notes. I then redirected my laptop copy of Amazing Charts to the server.
After that, I went to the server, opened Administrator Options, and pressed the magic button. It directed me to browse to the copy I wanted to synchronize with, and I actually browsed to the backup copy, though I could have browsed to the "original" just as easily, I suppose.
It was a quick and painless process. All the notes from my nursing home visits were now on both computers. The test notes that I created before I left were on both computers.
Now, I may have actually made that more difficult than it needed to be. The next goal will be to convert these steps to their simplest possible form, to make this thing as routine as possible.
We can then post our own detailed instructions on the Amazing Charts wiki.
