The preferred method of sharing database information when you have multiple licenses of ConstructionSuite is to have all users log in to a single (primary) database. However, each licensed computer of ConstructionSuite has its own database, making it easy for you and your employees to take advantage of the ConstructionSuite system while out on a job site.
If you have more than one employee who takes a laptop or tablet PCs into the field, you could use the Daisy Chain Technique to ensure that the primary and all user's databases get updated with the new information.
Brad's company has four licenses of ConstructionSuite, with two computers set up on a network in the office and two laptops that his project manager and lead carpenter use in the field. While working in the office, all of the employees log in to the primary database on Brad's computer, so everyone has access to the same data.
Before Brad's project manager and lead carpenter go out to their job sites, they each open ProjectSync and use the Sync Now feature to update each laptop's ConstructionSuite database. That way, they both have a complete copy of the central database on their laptops.
While out in the field, the project manager makes changes to the Johnson Residence schedule, and the lead carpenter enters materials into the Anderson Residence estimate. After returning to the office, they use the Daisy Chain technique to update all computers.
First, the project manager connects to the lead carpenter's laptop and performs a synchronization using ProjectSync. Now the carpenter's laptop has the updated Johnson Residence schedule and the project manager's laptop has the updated Anderson Residence estimate.
Then, the lead carpenter performs a synchronization between his license of ConstructionSuite and the primary ConstructionSuite database on the office network, which updates the primary database and transfers any changes that were made to ConstructionSuite files in the office to the carpenter's database.
To ensure that the project manager's database gets updated with any changes made on the office database while he was away, a fourth synchronization is performed between the primary database and the database on the project manager's laptop. Now all ConstructionSuite databases have been updated using the Daisy Chain Technique.