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Symphytum Personal Database Software
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Sharing access remotely #136

Open AndreinaSoto opened 4 years ago

AndreinaSoto commented 4 years ago

Hi all! First of all, thank you for this great program.

I am creating a database I need to share with my boss. This means she needs to have access to edit and share. I tried linking my database with Dropbox, but it does not allow to sync and share. If this is possible, do you have any recommendations how to grant access to other users?

Deanomac commented 4 years ago

If they download it and connect to your dropbox account (with the Dropbox code) you can share it with them. Or create a backup and upload it to their Dropbox, Google drive or One drive. All they have to do is restore from backup then. They only problem I have is when I create new fields in databases with 12,000 image files, it just takes a while. Or when 1 database is over 500,000 rows.

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Hi all! First of all, thank you for this great program.

I am creating a database I need to share with my boss. This means she needs to have access to edit and share. I tried linking my database with Dropbox, but it does not allow to sync and share. If this is possible, do you have any recommendations how to grant access to other users?

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joshirio commented 4 years ago

I think there are 2 possible strategies for this:

  1. If you don't want to give access to your dropbox account, create a new free dropbox account just for Symphytum and then share the credentials with anyone who needs access via Symphytum's cloud sync.

  2. Create a shared dropbox folder with your boss and then use Symphytum's generic folder sync, where you can choose where Symphytum saves the sync files (in this case the shared folder), the only downside to this is that it won't handle and detect conflicts when one of your users edit the database while being offline.