Synchronization Subscription property sheet: Extended Options tab

The Extended Options tab of the Synchronization Subscription property sheet has the following components:

This subscription has the following extended options    Lists the extended options and the values set for the MobiLink user. Click the Value field beside the option name to set the value for the MobiLink user.

The table below lists all the available extended options for synchronization.

For more information about these options, see .

Extended option Default Description
-1 (continue indefinitely) Specifies the number of retries if the download fails because of conflicts.
OFF Specifies restartable downloads.
OFF Disables automatic logscan polling.
32 K on Windows CE, 1 M on all other operating systems. Specifies the size of the download buffer.

By default, units of bytes are used. You can use the suffix k or m to specify units of kilobytes or megabytes, respectively.

OFF Specifies that synchronization should be download-only.
32 K For restartable downloads, specifies the maximum amount of data that may need to be resent after a communications failure.
32 K Specifies how much of the remote log file dbmlsync should send to the server when synchronization occurs.

By default, units of bytes are used. You can use the suffix k or m to specify units of kilobytes or megabytes, respectively. If you don't want to send any dbmlsync output log messages, a zero value should be set for this extended option.

ON Specifies that triggers should be fired on the remote database when the download is applied.
1 M When you are using scheduling, this limits the amount of discarded memory that is allowed to accumulate before a rescan is performed.

By default, units of bytes are used. You can use the suffix k or m to specify units of kilobytes or megabytes, respectively.

OFF Specifies that errors that occur in hook functions should be ignored.
OFF Specifies that scheduling settings should be ignored.
(infinite) Controls the size of incremental uploads.

By default, units of bytes are used. You can use the suffix k or m to specify units of kilobytes or megabytes, respectively.

ON Specifies that articles (tables or parts of tables in the publications being synchronized) should be locked before synchronizing.
1 M Specifies a cache size.

By default, units of bytes are used. You can use the suffix k or m to specify units of kilobytes or megabytes, respectively.

(none) Specifies the location of old mirror log files so that they can be deleted.
NULL Specifies the MobiLink password.
NULL Specifies a new MobiLink password.
NULL Specifies the path containing offline transaction logs.
1 minute Specifies the logscan polling period.

By default, units of minutes are used. You can use the suffix s, m, h, or d to specify units of seconds, minutes, hours, or days, respectively.

No schedule Specifies a schedule for synchronization.
DEFAULT Specifies a script version.
OFF Specifies that column names should be sent in the upload.
OFF Specifies that a download acknowledgement should be sent from the client to the server.
OFF Specifies that trigger actions should be sent on upload.
(none) Specifies the order of tables in the upload stream.
OFF Specifies that synchronization should only include an upload.
OFF Specifies full verbosity.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -v+.

OFF Specifies that messages related to hook scripts should be logged.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -vs.

OFF Specifies that a small amount of information should be logged.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -v.

OFF Specifies that information should be logged about the command line options (including extended options) that you have specified.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -vo.

OFF Specifies that the number of rows that are uploaded and downloaded should be logged.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -vn.

OFF Specifies that the values of rows that are uploaded and downloaded should be logged.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -vr.

OFF Specifies that information about the upload stream should be logged.

This option is identical to dbmlsync -vu.

Note 

You can set connection parameters for synchronization in several ways.

For information about how dbmlsync resolves conflicting options, see .