Automatic Sync/Export Option

mirtos · April 14th, 2014, 06:53 AM

This comes from the discussion forum where questions were being asked about the database.

I think it would be nice to have some form of auto-sync/export option (I put the slash in for the people who want it to auto export vs auto sync) with a time being a parameter the user can enter. This would be an option, not a forced.

So in other words, I could set mine to Auto Export 1/hour, or even 1/minute (though obviously that would slow down my user experience).

I could forsee that network traffic might be a complaint for the cloud, so maybe you dont allow the auto-sync to happen more than 1/15 minutes, but auto export should be whatever the user wanted, as its their own hard drive.

EightBitz · April 14th, 2014, 07:07 AM

I would like this as well.

Zaphod Beebledoc · April 14th, 2014, 08:36 AM

+1 here too.

Cornelius · April 15th, 2014, 06:36 AM

+1 from me too. Since I use the cloud as a means to back up my database I always sync before exiting.

MaxSupernova · April 15th, 2014, 07:10 AM

+1 here

Vargr · April 17th, 2014, 10:52 PM

+1 here.

How about a feature in the fora, where you can up- or downvote a suggestion? This way we could avoid a myriad of identical posts saying "Yeah, me too! +1"

mirtos · April 18th, 2014, 10:05 PM

I used to program for vBulletin, and basically it would would require everything new suggestion being a poll. You wouldnt really have "Upvote, Downvote" but "Yes/No". People could still comment, but they can only vote once. It obviously depends on which version of vBulletin they are running here.

Parody · 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vargr

How about a feature in the fora, where you can up- or downvote a suggestion? This way we could avoid a myriad of identical posts saying "Yeah, me too! +1"

There are vBulletin plugins that do this, but if they're happy with how the forum is working they might not want to mess with it. What they could do instead is ask us to rate suggestion threads with how much we'd like to see it.

ObTopic: Auto-sync on exit (rather than getting prompted to do it if you're logged in) would be nice. Periodic export or sync while working is useful, but for once I'm not that worried about it losing what I've been doing while I'm working. It's already making a backup of the local database at every startup, so I'd only lose so much. (Longer work sessions would change this perspective, I'm sure. :)

I'm assuming that letting you set the locations where Realm Works stores your active data and the backup folder are still features on the list of things to implement.

Vargr · April 19th, 2014, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Parody

I'm assuming that letting you set the locations where Realm Works stores your active data and the backup folder are still features on the list of things to implement.

This!

That would be very nice! That way I could have the datafile(s) on my RAID-configured NAS, improving data-safety.

rob · April 20th, 2014, 06:07 PM

At the moment, you have to be outside the realm in order to sync it, so we can't do interval-based syncing yet. It's been on the todo list for a long time, and we just need to address a few more details in order to do it smoothly. In the meantime, we can look at using the other suggestions here.

EightBitz Senior Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 1,458 April 14th, 2014, 07:07 AM	I would like this as well.
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Cornelius Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Bennekom, Netherlands Posts: 206 April 15th, 2014, 06:36 AM	+1 from me too. Since I use the cloud as a means to back up my database I always sync before exiting.
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MaxSupernova Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 411 April 15th, 2014, 07:10 AM	+1 here
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mirtos Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 865 April 18th, 2014, 10:05 PM	I used to program for vBulletin, and basically it would would require everything new suggestion being a poll. You wouldnt really have "Upvote, Downvote" but "Yes/No". People could still comment, but they can only vote once. It obviously depends on which version of vBulletin they are running here.
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rob Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 8,232 April 20th, 2014, 06:07 PM	At the moment, you have to be outside the realm in order to sync it, so we can't do interval-based syncing yet. It's been on the todo list for a long time, and we just need to address a few more details in order to do it smoothly. In the meantime, we can look at using the other suggestions here.
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