Many Russian companies use the 1C system in their work. Often this system is used only by a limited number of employees, such as accountants, whose work is to maintain and update accounting databases. Working with the TeamWox system implies the involvement of all employees and creates a common information sharing space.
We have developed a synchronizing agent for those companies, which use both, the 1C software and TeamWox, and called it TeamWox 1C Sync. It allows you to configure the synchronization of the 1C database with the TeamWox system with just a few clicks of the mouse.
- Note that the synchronization process is one-sided. The changes are transferred to the TeamWox system, but not vice versa.
- Only 8.1. version of 1C is supported.
Installation
The installation process is simple. You simply need to download and run the file teamwox1csyncsetup.exe.
The installation master consists of the standard phases - the welcoming screens, the end-user agreements, and the installation options. In most cases, all user actions are reduced to the successive pressing of the "Next" button.
After completing the installation, you can proceed directly to the program configuration.
Configuration
Configuring the 1C Sync program is just as simple. The main window of the agent is where the list of synchronized databases is configured:
The 1C Sync displays the number of records, synchronized for each database, as well as the date of the last synchronization.
To add a new database, you should click "Add".
The window of databases configuration should contain the following information:
- Name - the name of the database, which will be displayed in the 1C Sync agent;
- Link to the 1C database - link to the folder where the 1C database is stores;
- Login - username to log-in to the 1C database. This field should be left blank if authorization is not required;
- Password - password for the 1C database. This field should be left blank if authorization is not required;
- TeamWox domain - the name of the domain where the TeamWox groupware is installed, without the https: / / prefix;
- Login - login for the TeamWox synchronization agent;
- Password - password to log into TeamWox.
- A synchronization account must first be set up within the TeamWox system. At the same time, this account must provide the user with the ability to edit records in the "Organizations" and Contacts modules .
- Once installation is complete, 1C Sync scans your computer for the installed 1C system and automatically adds the database to the list of synchronization.
- After configuring one database, the connection parameters are automatically propagated to rest of the databases (if they are not configured).
How to synchronize?
During synchronization, all data on contractors, including their contacts, are transfered from 1C to the "Organizations" and Contacts modules of the TeamWox system. While the information about groups of counterparties, created in the 1C database, is transferred to "Type" of organizations. Later, this will help to create special Filters based on them.
A distinguishing feature of the TeamWox 1C Sync agent is its cost-effective use of resources. Upon completion of the synchronization process, it saves the caches of synchronized records. This causes only the changed data to be sent to TeamWox when you run the program again.
The comparison of organizations (contractors) and contacts, with those that are present in the TeamWox, system occurs primarily in the "INN" field, and the secondly in the "Organization Name" field. For contacts only the "Contact Name" is used.
TeamWox 1C Sync runs as a service to the operating system. Every hour it runs an automatic synchronization of databases. If necessary, synchronization can be launched manually from the interface, by pressing the appropriate button.
Periodically, synchronization can be configured through a configuration file.
Technical details
In the installation directory of the program a settings file is stored: TeamWox1CSync.ini. With parameter periodicity it can change the interval of automatic synchronization. By default it is equal to 60 (in minutes). Multiplicity value change of a parameter equals to 5.
The installation directory of the program also contains a cache folder . In this folder the caches synchronized records are stored. If you delete the files in this directory manually, then the next synchronization will overwrite all of the previous data.
To analyze the synchronization process you can use the file: teamwox1csync.log, which is also located in the installation directory. It records all of the actions performed by the agent.
1C Sync is a convenient, efficient, and user-friendly instrument for database synchronization of 1C and TeamWox. And despite all of the advantages it gives, the toold is absolutely free. In the future, the functional of 1C Sync will be expanded. In the near future we plan to import the staff from 1C, which will allow you to begin working with the TeamWox system almost immediately after its installation in your company.
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04 June 2010
