Some users work through a large number of submissions before syncing.
To save time, they leave the option "Sync after tapping Submit" turned off, process several items, and then sync when they get done with a set or batch of work.
There are some times it would be very nice to be able to have a granular sync / sub-sync / single item sync button next to each submission in the list of not-yet-synced submissions, or maybe a check box by each where one or more could be selected and then synchronized.
The global sync option would absolutely still be needed, but it would be cool to have the option for granular sync without having to wait on the entire sync operation to finish and without having to process the entire queue all at once in cases where the user might not be ready for that yet in his/her workflow.
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Hi Nathan - Have your users looked into our auto-upload option? Would this help?
https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011564907-Can-I-automatically-upload-my-Submissions-when-I-have-coverage-
Hi Ellen.
The users that have this issue are mostly back office users with the Windows app. If the setting was available in the Windows app it might help some of them. For others, they like to control when the items are submitted because they may have other related work flows outside of GoCanvas that they are waiting to complete, etc.
Got it. We are looking at implementing our quick sync functionality on Windows sometime in the next few months. This would work the same as our Android and iOS clients where we upload submissions only (no other checks during sync) when Restart App After Submission Completion is enabled.
It doesn't sounds like this would 100% solve your use case, but may help.
The Restart App After Completion does help a little, but all of our submissions for the apps related to this request start with dispatches. If we turn on that option, the user gets a blank submission with no ability to add any needed data, etc because they are missing some key fields that come from dispatches. It would be nice to add a "move to next dispatch" option and a "return to dispatch list" option to go along with the "restart app after completion" option. I'll make a different request for those.