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 Office Connector has the ability to operate in "viewer mode" on workstations where Sage Timberline Office is not installed or is otherwise unreachable.  Office Connector does not need to be licensed in order to operate in viewer mode, and it will not use any license concurrencies.  Although you cannot refresh data or send values to Timberline while in viewer mode, you can leverage the Save data with report option to display the data as it was last refreshed.

Viewer mode has the following uses:

Remote Data Entry

You can e-mail workbooks to remote Office Connector users for data entry in the field. The remote users do not need access to Timberline, and can instead work with the report using the saved data. Once the data has been entered, the remote user can e-mail the spreadsheet back to the main office where the connection to Timberline can be established and the updated values written back into Sage Timberline Office.

External Review

Anyone can download and install Office Connector free of charge.  If you use the Save data with report option, then other users can view your Office Connector workbooks while leaving the potential to reconnect intact.  Generally speaking, this use case has been replaced by the more efficient Save As Values feature.

Network Reliability

Should your workstation experience connectivity issues with Timberline, Office Connector may enter viewer mode in order to gracefully handle the disconnect.


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Content updated 12/4/2012

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