Open Dental Forum

Open Dental is not really made for touch. There are a lot small fields to edit and punch that was designed using the precision of a mouse. Using a Surface ifyour computer savvy works, but if your not, then you'll have a lot of missed punches and such. With regard to the kiosk function, its the same ...

Not the dropbox client or anything to do with the client. Straight cloud storage local caching. You can sort of already do this manually with a 3rd party client on the server like Goodsync or Cloudberry. You just mount the drive letter to the online storage on the server and all the Open Dental clie...

For now. Amazon RDS seems to be the way to go. RDS is a cloud based mysql engine. Its very cheap and scalable. Its NOT the same as a virtual machine. I'm testing it out with the Open Dental team right now. Also Dropbox integration is likely coming in the next release. So you can host your entire A t...

Amazon has many different BAA services. Was it RDS or AWS?

Has anyone followed up with this?

I don't see a web based version of OD coming anytime soon. VM is just way to expensive. Cloud SQL is probably the best stop gap at the moment.

You can also setup the web service to connect, they call it middle tier now. You can run it over ssh with only a single port forwarded. It helps a lot with latency as well. I am highly interested in your results regarding RDS. Take a look at this article http://www.laurencegellert.com/2013/05/pros-a...