How To use SatSyncPPC to send data to the PocketPC device

Problem: How To use SatSyncPPC to send data to the PocketPC device

Solution: SatSyncPPC is a sample application written in Visual Basic and provided in the \Samples folder of your SatForms installation. SatSync demonstrates how to use the SatForms ActiveSync control to send and receive data between the desktop PC and PocketPC handheld.

These instructions assume that you have created and compiled your application in App Designer, and want to send data from an existing database table on the PC (with the same schema as the table in App Designer) to the handheld. It is also possible to bring this data back into the table editor in App Designer with an additional step. If your data already exists in the App Designer table editor, there is no need to follow these steps, since you can just use the Handheld | Download App & Tables function. These instructions are for sending data from an existing PC database to your SatForms application on the handheld, and optionally bringing that data back into the App Designer table editor.

1. Start the SatSyncPPC sample application in \Samples\SatSyncPPC.

2. Select File | New, then File | Configure Send List.

3. Select the DBF or MDB files to send data to the handheld. These are your existing data tables, not the tables generated by App Designer when it builds your project. Enter the folder on the handheld where you wish to store the tables (eg. \My Documents\Work Order).

4. Save your SatSyncPPC config file, then click the Download Tables checkbox.

5. Attach your PocketPC device, and the data should get sent to the handheld, where it now

resides in the handheld tables.

[Optional step to bring data back into App Designer Table Editor]

6. In App Designer, select Handheld | Upload Tables, bringing the data back into the table Editor.

Keywords: SatSync, SatSyncPPC, PocketPC, table, DBF, MDB, database, ActiveSync

KB ID: 10008

Updated: 2006-10-12

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