My question is what kind of support does ES offer for synchronizing any changes made to the data once an internet connection is re-established? 

For example, if the salesperson changes a customer's phone number while working disconnected, how does this new phone number get applied to the main database when the salesperson reconnects to the internet? 

Are the synchronization tools built in to ES, or would I have to write it all by hand?  At reconnection, is there an opportunity to open both the local and the central (ES) tables simultaneously and do the needed comparison and updates?

TIA,

Larry

Just wandering about Larry's question.  Does version 1.6 provide some mechanism to save to a local datastore while the smart client is disconnected from ES?

--Lenard

You could do this with StrataFrame even prior to the ES.  This is more of a disconnected data feature rather than an ES feature.  For example, once you have data within the BO it can be modified and maintained and there is no "keep-alive" data session.  The connection is re-established when a request to the DAL (Data access layer) is performed, such as a Save(), SELECT, etc. 

The ES provides a way to communicate real-time from anywhere...fast!  So in the case of pulling data down and then updating it later there are a number of options.  The most common one would be to serialize the BO and save it to disk....once back in connection range (or in the office) then you can deserialize the BO and all of the unsaved content and call the Save just as you would any other time. 

Use the serialization methods on the BO:

Serialize to local file on disk

So if a form had many BOs, one would have to manage each one of them separately, correct?  There is no top level "session" or "mechanism" that I could use to manage the saving/loading of the BOs while I was disconnected, right? 

Thanks.

--Lenard

You can pass this collection to a shared class that you create that cycles through the BOs and saves them to disk:

Thanks for the reply.  Sounds like there are a lot of capabilities to "run disconnected".

Larry