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Answer: This turns out to be
very easy with PC Coach Elite using a feature called RCS,
for 'Remote Coaching Service.' (The RCS feature is not included
in PC Coach Light).
The RCS feature was designed for use by professional coaches
who want to communicate with their clients via email. The
coach has PC Coach Professional or Scholastic, and all of
his/her clients have the normal PC Coach Elite. They exchange
emails with an attachment that contains the PC Coach workouts
in coded form. The coach sends workouts to be done to the
client, and the client sends back completed workouts, including
downloaded data. The client sees what the coach planned
for him on his calendar, and the coach sees what workouts
the client peformed.
Although we did not intend it, the RCS feature turns out
to work perfectly for the home/office problem. Say you are
at home and you have downloaded your weekend workouts into
your PC Coach program. Just click on the RCS button (the
mailbox icon at the bottom of the left toolbar). Select
a date range (in this example Saturday and Sunday) and an
.rcs file is created and placed in the C:/"Outbox"
folder. Attach this .rcs file to an email and send it to
the email account you read at the office.
When you get to the office and get that email, just open
the attachment. This will start PC Coach, and drop those
workouts, complete with the downloaded data, into that copy.
Now both copies have those workouts. You can also go the
other direction, sending to your home the workouts you entered
at work.
In the professional setting, when one end (the coach) is
using PC Coach Professional or Scholastic, the software
has special logic to understand when the workouts being
returned to the coach are already represented on the coach's
calendar, and update those, rather than adding a duplicate
workout. If both ends are PC Coach Elite, this logic doesn't
exist. This means it is up to you to not send workouts that
are already on the other copy, or else to delete the duplicates
when they arrive. This won't be a problem if you just send
over the workouts from the weekend, or even daily. It all
just takes a couple of clicks.
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