Setting the expiration period

ACT! Premium Web 2005 Server

Setting the expiration period

When you create a remote database, you set the number of days before synchronization will expire. A user of a remote database must synchronize within the time specified, or he or she will no longer be able to synchronize data. This ensures that changes made on remote databases are synchronized in a timely manner and prevents the transaction log from becoming overloaded and inefficient. Once expired, the remote database cannot synchronize to the main database. To resume synchronization, the Administrator or Manager user of the main database must create a new remote database for the user(s).

You set the expiration time when you create the remote database; you cannot change it later.

You can set synchronization to expire between 2 and 90 days.

To set the expiration period for a remote database

  1. From the Tools menu, click Synchronization Panel.

  2. On the panel, click 3. Create Remote Database.

  3. Follow the instructions on the screen to name the database and select a Sync Set.

  4. Specify the number of days before expiration expires in the Set the number of days that synchronize expires field. ACT! Premium for Web Server sets a default value of 30 days. You can type a number between 2 and 90 days.