Syncronization process

Question

Hi.

I published an ArcPAD map service in my ArcgisServer 10.0, and I am using the Synchronize Data From Server tool, but I am having problems with it.

Can anyone from ESRI please explain how does ArcPAD perform the synchronization process?
I need to know what files are created in ArcgisServer, and where.
Is there an AXF file that holds all the changes and redistribute for all further synchronizations?
When I add a polygon in one tablet, and then synchronize, what are the process that occur until another tablet receives it?
Is there a delay in this process?
Is there a limited number of features that can be synchronized?

I'll be very grateful if anyone can explain it to me. I am using ArcPAD 10.04.

Gustavo

RobertLugo · Answer

Hi Gustavo.
My problem was not like yours.  While you at least were able to move the adds to your GDB when doing your sync I could not get any of my adds to the GDB.  Since we have maintenance agreement with ESRI I worked with one of the ESRI ArcPad support techs but could not get the adds to sync with the GDB.  I had everthing setup correctly and I even tried it with the sample data that ESRI provides but it would still not work.  For us it would be very useful if we could get this method to work.   I'm planning to install 10.1 soon to see if this problem has been corrected with the 10.1release.  They have reported this as fixed at 10.1.

GustavoBediaga · Answer

Hi Gustavo.

I spent many hours trying to get the sync process to work properly and worked with the tech support folks in ESRI.
I gave up since everything we tried would not work and I also put in a bug report to see if this could be worked on as a fix for 10.1 release.  I read on their bug fix report that a number of issues with the sync process was fixed at 10.1 and I plan to get that install soon to test it out.

We were very disappointed with the problems we are having synchronizing Arcpad with the Geodatabase... It is the most important function we need to our activities, so until now we are still not sure if Arcpad will work for us.

Are you having the same problems that I related in this thread: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/67633-Synchronization-problems-in-Arcpad ????

Gustavo

RobertLugo · Answer

Hi Gustavo.

I spent many hours trying to get the sync process to work properly and worked with the tech support folks in ESRI.
I gave up since everything we tried would not work and I also put in a bug report to see if this could be worked on as a fix for 10.1 release.  I read on their bug fix report that a number of issues with the sync process was fixed at 10.1 and I plan to get that install soon to test it out.