Restoring your Remote Data Access connection after working offline
Description

When you reconnect to Remote Data Access after working offline, you'll see this message if other users have changed your data.

'Remote Data Access connection restored.

Your Remote Data Access connection has been restored however changes have been uploaded by another site.
To overwrite these changes with your local changes, click Upload data.
To overwrite your local changes with changes made by other sites, click Download data.
To continue working offline and upload your data at a later time, click Work offline.'


To choose the correct option, select one for more details:

▼ Keep your changes and overwrite others

If the changes you've made while working offline take priority over changes made by other users, select the Upload data option.

This has the following effects:

  • Colleagues at other Remote Data Access sites will lose any changes they made while you were working offline
  • The changes you made while offline upload and sync to all other sites

Once you click Upload data, you can back up your local data before it uploads.

▼ Discard your changes and download the latest data

If you've been working offline and want to discard your changes, select the Download data option. This will update your data with the latest changes made by colleagues.

This has the following effects:

  • The changes you made while offline are discarded
  • The data syncs showing all changes made by colleagues while you were working offline

Once you click Download data, you can back up your local data before the new changes download.