Offline Synchronization

Posted by Gary on October 16, 2006, 3:59 pm

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Here is the scenario - we have a customer that has nince registers. During
the week, no more than 4 or 5 registers are used. The others typically only
get used on the weekend. S such, these registers only have Z-Reports and
synchronization run once or twice a week. At the point where these registers
are brought online, their offline database has not been updated for more than
a week. If the server fails, these registrers are running on old offline
data. The customer does not want to run z-reports at startup (they run them
for each change of shirt) because it creates too many reports to monitor.

Is there a way to run synchronization at startup to insure that the dataases
are up to date, without running a Z-Report?

Posted by Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt on October 16, 2006, 4:11 pm

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Well, you could build you own SQL job to do the update, but it wouldn't
be worth the effort or the risk ( of missing something ). There's no
way to trigger the built-in Sync other than running a Z-Report as far as
I know.

Glenn Adams
Tiber Creek Consulting
http://www.tibercreek.com
glenn@tibercreek.com
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Gary wrote:

> Here is the scenario - we have a customer that has nince registers. During

> the week, no more than 4 or 5 registers are used. The others typically only

> get used on the weekend. S such, these registers only have Z-Reports and

> synchronization run once or twice a week. At the point where these registers

> are brought online, their offline database has not been updated for more than

> a week. If the server fails, these registrers are running on old offline

> data. The customer does not want to run z-reports at startup (they run them

> for each change of shirt) because it creates too many reports to monitor.

> Is there a way to run synchronization at startup to insure that the dataases

> are up to date, without running a Z-Report?

Posted by rick on October 16, 2006, 6:20 pm

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Just do a blind close same as z but then ignore the batch

> Well, you could build you own SQL job to do the update, but it wouldn't be

> worth the effort or the risk ( of missing something ). There's no way to

> trigger the built-in Sync other than running a Z-Report as far as I know.

> Glenn Adams

> Tiber Creek Consulting

> http://www.tibercreek.com

> glenn@tibercreek.com

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> Please DO NOT respond to me directly but post all responses here in the

> newsgroup so that all can share the information.

> Gary wrote:

>> Here is the scenario - we have a customer that has nince registers.

>> During the week, no more than 4 or 5 registers are used. The others

>> typically only get used on the weekend. S such, these registers only have

>> Z-Reports and synchronization run once or twice a week. At the point

>> where these registers are brought online, their offline database has not

>> been updated for more than a week. If the server fails, these registrers

>> are running on old offline data. The customer does not want to run

>> z-reports at startup (they run them for each change of shirt) because it

>> creates too many reports to monitor. Is there a way to run

>> synchronization at startup to insure that the dataases are up to date,

>> without running a Z-Report?