Brian,
Great link there buddy and many thanks to it's original author. I still have a question about this thing. When one returns to the office and syncs what is on the laptop back up with the main server, does it only "compile this new updated data" on the server or does it also do the same for the laptop? So let's say the laptop was away from the office and so both machines needed to be updated on what the other had been doing in the other's absence can we use the sync utility to update both of them? Kind of like the doc has been gone for a few days, he/she is just going back out into the field again, but wants both machines to have the newest and most complete of what they both have, could he/she quickly drop in and hit sync, let it run and do it's thing, and BAM, now they both have eachother's data combined in a perfect mirror of eachother....Hit the road secure in the knowledge that both the home office and the traveling laptop are now up to date on eachother....
In a real sense is it making a mirrored copy of the new synced database on both machines harddrives??? Now they both know what happened to eachother while they were apart. Server took 5 appointments and scanned 4 docs into 3 patients imported items folders, while the laptop charted 3 encounters in 3 patients charts, get it?
And if such is so, then couldn't we just use the sync button twice as I asked a number of posts ago? Use the botton once to get both machines the most recent copy of the main database before the laptop goes off-site and then use it the second time when the laptop returns home to let eachother know what they did while they were apart. I know what I am asking and I just hope I am typing and writing it well enough to convey my question and concept here. This is what I always envisioned Sync doing. Compiling, Combining and then Mirroring both machines whenever you hit "go" might we say. Does this make sense to everyone?
Vinny, have you brought this up with Jon at all? Could you? I get the feeling that you two guys would understand each other really well and that you would be able to convey it in an understandable way to the rest of us.
