Hello, I am trying to create a "Backup Button." My original goal was to make Sesame backup automatically on interval. With some research and experimentation I came to find out that this is easier said than done, so I decided to use the method proposed in the Sesame Programming Guide's example. Where you have a button "On Element Entry" that you switch on/off, that when switched on will automatically do an action on interval, every so many seconds or whatever. That should work for now as long as I keep one client running at all times, which is not a problem for the time being.

But my main problem that I'm running into. Is how do I make that command button synchronize across clients. For example: If I switch it "On" on Client 1 how can I make it also show as "On" on Client 2 and so on... Because I don't want to run into the situation where A. Two different Client's are both backing up the application at the same time. Or B. One Client turns on the process then another Client inadvertently turns off the process.

Is there a good workaround for this? I was thinking of using GlobalValue() but I don't quite understand it well and when I tried experimenting with it and WriteLn(), it showed a command prompt window and caused Sesame Designer to crash. Or is there another way?

Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you.

Not sure, I guess I don't know how to use the INI file that much. I'll look into it.

That entry will only backup a Sesame application if it is loaded by the Sesame Server at the time the specified interval occurs. If there are no loaded Sesame applications, nothing will be backed up.

If you wish to ensure that the application is loaded by the Sesame Server at that time, set the following entry in your INI file as well.

DATABASE RETENTION: ON

-Ray