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    alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

    http://www.ddhsoftware.com/knowledgebase.html?read=237
    Richard Rabins
    Co Chairman
    Alpha Software
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    RE: alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

    This looks really cool. Has anyone tried this?

    Russ

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      RE: alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

      Yes I've been trying this for two days. I'm afraid I can't report much success to date. It would appear that the combination of HanDBase software and FoxPro ODBC driver will not support the synchronization of many HanDBase field types.

      To date the synchronization works only when character fields are mapped/synchronized.

      HanDBase Note fields will map and sync to Memo fields without errors but, the information does not transfer over. Mapping Note fields to Character fields prevents the ODBC Sync from taking place.

      HanDBase Date fields will not Sync and cause the ODBC sync to abort.

      I haven't tried any of the other field types but it doesn't look good.

      If you decide to give it a go, ddhsoftware has a 30 day trial available. Also be sure to turn on the Verbose Message logging in the HanDBase Sync configuration. You will have to
      examine the HotSync Log to see any errors, this is the only place where failure of the ODBC sync is reported.

      I would be very interested in hearing other experience in using this combination.

      P.S. does anyone know of a ODBC driver for FoxPro Ver 2.6 format files other then the one provided by Microsoft.

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        RE: alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

        You might check this thread. Glen Schilds seems to have it working.
        http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/read.php3?sortby=lastreply&direction=desc&num=11&id=37604&thread=37415


        Marc
        www.a5solutions.com
        Marc King
        A5solutions

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          RE: alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

          I've been posting requests for help regarding synch with pda's, especially pocket pc for about a year and so far have had no success with with any synch process.. I have not successfully synch'd the tables I need to create a desktop\pda app to date, but handbase is the only pda db that claims to be able to accomplish this. It may be easier via Palm than pocket pc. There is a handbase article in their knowledgebase specifically related to Alpha, but there are some limmitations that to me seem critical to have. I'm confident that someone will figure out a way to do this, but so far foxPro sod 2.6 is the only driver that can do anything.

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            RE: alpha five and HanDBase (www.ddhsoftware.com)

            Terry -
            I used HandDbase and for a while was running time tracking on the palm and billing on Alpha. I did not use any ODBC - it was all done with csv files (convert to text and back).

            I would hotsync the palm, then push a button in Alpha which ran HandDbase desktop with command line options to convert the palm files to text, then import the text into Alpha. It was not hard, and seemed pretty stable.

            I would empty the Palm files every time and was only importing fresh data. This is not the same as updating existing records. I would think this could be done by keeping a master Alpha DB with a copy on the Palm. After each hotsync update the A5 master, then replace the Palm DB.

            This covers text, date and time field types, anyway. I did not try memo fields, and bit maps would not work...

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