Automatically keep both your WebSked Individual and Master work schedules in synch with your personal calendar!

At no additional charge, EPSKED Assist can be installed on as many computers as you need. In order to permit administrative access to schedules using EPSKED, we have NOT restricted the ability to retrieve, manually edit, print, or do computerized scheduling of schedules in EPSKED Assist. Only the "Create a new schedule" and "Manually enter a preexisting schedule" are restricted features and are not accessible in EPSKED Assist. (This policy is subject to change in the future, but we do not anticipate imposing any further restrictions.)

As long as you feel comfortable transferring your schedule database between computers and always use your registered machine to create the original unfinished schedule, you can use EPSKED in its EPSKED Assist mode on as many computers as you feel are necessary. EPSKED Assist will meet the needs of most users who want to use EPSKED on more than one computer. EPSKED becomes EPSKED Assist when it is run on an unregistered machine using a registered database.

Note that in order for EPSKED Assist to create request forms for current schedules, you will need to first create an unfinished schedule for that time period on a registered computer (one on which an activation code has been entered), then transfer the database to the computer that uses EPSKED Assist. The new schedule can then be retrieved in EPSKED Assist and used for scheduling, just as if EPSKED Assist had been used to created the schedule.

To install EPSKED Assist on another computer, you need to download and install the EPSKED program on to the computer.

Next, you need to backup your database on the computer that has the activation code, and restore the database to the computer that will have EPSKED Assist. After restoring your database to the EPSKED Assist computer, your EPSKED will open in the EPSKED Assist mode when you open EPSKED on that computer. Important: When you are ready to use the computer that has the activation code again, you need to do the backup and restore feature (again), this time moving your current database from the EPSKED Assist computer back to the computer with the activation code.

Here are instructions on performing the backup and restore feature:

1. From the scheduling program Main Menu on the computer containing the schedule you wish to transfer, Select the "File...Backup" option and save the database to a flash (also called USB or zip) drive (or other easily found location). The file is saved in the "X:\EPSKED5 Backups" folder on the selected drive, where X is the letter of the drive. Use a floppy disk A: drive if you want to transfer by floppy disk, but a flash drive will usually have more storage space and can allow backup of even a large schedule database on a single drive.
2. To send the schedule via email, select the EPSKED Main Menu option "Email a message to your providers" (or open your email program) and attach the backup file you created in step 1 to an email addressed to the other physician. If you saved the backup file to your flash drive, the backup file is named:

   X:\EPSKED5 Backups\COPY_SCHEDULE_########.ep5 (where X is the letter of the drive)

   where SCHEDULE is the name of the current scheduling location being backed up, and the #’s represent the current date in YYYYMMDD format. The default name for a single scheduling location is "Schedule". You can set or check this name from the scheduling Main Menu by clicking the "Different scheduling location" option. Note that the name of scheduling location must be identical in both computers or the backup file will not be recognized.

3. Either manually transfer the flash drive to the other computer, or send the email, with the backup file attached, to the other computer. If sent by email, you need to know the location of the backup file received as an email attachment. Find that file using Windows Explorer, then copy or move the file to a "X:\EPSKED5 Backups" folder on the second computer, where X is the letter of the drive. This folder can be created using Windows Explorer by clicking on the desired drive in the left Windows Explorer pane, selecting the File...New...Folder dropdown menu option, then typing "EPSKED5 Backups" (without the quotation marks) as the folder name.
4. From the EPSKED Main Menu installed on the second computer, select the "File...Restore" option, select the X: drive (where X is the letter of the drive used in step 2), then use the restore option to transfer the schedules to the second computer’s EPSKED scheduling program.

Be sure to read the instructions and cautions in the EPSKED help file under "Backing up your data...Synchronizing between two computers".

An alternate method requires that your other scheduler be somewhat computer literate and able to use zipped files. Select the "Help...Email to ByteBloc...Schedule database" dropdown menu from the scheduling program Main Menu. After the schedule database is compressed, select the "No - send email using my regular email program" option. When your email program shows the email, change the To: address to your other scheduler (rather than ByteBloc support) and manually attach the file (a zip file containing your schedule database as highly compressed as it can be) that is listed in the text of the email. Your other scheduler should open the zip file and extract the ep50.mdb file to the scheduling database folder, usually located at:

My Documents\EPSKED5 Schedules\Schedule

if the default EPSKED installation was performed.

Automatically keep both your WebSked Individual and Master work schedules in synch with your personal calendar!

Here is an updated list (as of Sep 2011) for EPSKED command line options:
'/AC# - mod digits of returned SysId by # value '5.0.23 for Dan Caskie / Chris Baker problem
'/ASC - automatic ascii summary export even if Excel is detected (for Foster)
'/BET - beta version for use with pass to customizer so it knows it's beta also '5.0.yy 04May09
'/BBC - check if computer is ByteBloc computer 5.0.01
'/BKP - Bypass Known Problem with SysID creation command line option, then get their new system ID. The new system ID is also automatically generated in the RegReport.
'/CEP - activate CEP features
'/DB - start EPSKED in debug mode
'/DCA - Debug Confirm AC - adds scrambled debug info debug log inside Function fnbConfirmedAllActivationCodes
'/EPW - enable "EPSKED on the Web" functions for testing use with /BBC option '5.0.16
'/EXC - force EPSKED to try to create an Excel file export even if it does not think Excel is installed on your computer
'/HCA - Half Cascades - limit # of preferred shift sequences searched for to half of normal; try with excessive scheduling time due to lots of shifts AND high max shifts in a row.
'/IDA - ID Advise only - if registry saved customer ID and customer ID in database don't match, EPSKED usually offers to reset one or the other so that they match. This option advises of disparity but does not offer change option. (Mainly for use at ByteBloc.)
Mark removed the use of the "/IDA" shortcut in version 5.0.28.
'/IIR - (Ignore In Row) to tell EPSKED to ignore shift-in-row requests.
'/ISL - use Islamic calendar formatting so that Thursday/Friday counts as weekends, are highlighted in red, and offer different "day left" options.
'/JT3 - use Jet3.51 database as provider (rather than default Jet
4.0) '5.0.01 reversed from /JT4 option of 4.1
'/LXL - extend trial date by two months beyond that set by the trial date password (used in addition to /XL)
'/MSH to modify shift hours on shifts screen in Customizer
'/NIN - No INI copy - don't copy INI file scheduler information between schedule folders. (If you have a database without scheduler information entered, EPSKED normally copies existing scheduler information into the new database. (This option is mainly for use at ByteBloc, as the copying function can cause problems where scheduler info can be copied into other customers databases that we are fixing.)
'/NOW - No Off Warning when enter first and last day of sequential days off request '5.0.15
'/NPDF - No PDF check - to not check features of EPSKED PDF (needed for defective install or hangs)
'/NRP - No Reset Printer bin before printing (for Eipper)
/NRW - "No Relations Warning" when exit Customizer and had only default shift relations present because user chose not to customize relationships; message screen no longer displays
'/OBU - Optional Back Up - make normal automatic backup of database optional '5.0.27 14Nov08
'/PDB - Palm Daylight Bug - older version of Palm Datebook incorrectly consider DST transition fixed at 1am, resulting in "invalid vCal" file reported. Also, unfixable problem with all day events. Fix by making 1am transition time when /PDB command line option used. (Horak)
'/REP - Show Tools...Reports dropdown menu to enable generation of customer specific customized reports
'/SIN - suppress Interim update Notification as command line option (When running an Interim Update, "i" will appear after the version number at the top of the Scheduler.)
'/WEB - activate WebSked dropdown menu even if not registered machine (for admin Assist access)
'/XL - extend trial date by one month beyond that set by the trial date password

Automatically keep both your WebSked Individual and Master work schedules in synch with your personal calendar!

Even if your EPSKED database file is too large to send us by email, you can transfer your EPSKED database with this program.

This procedure should work:

1. From EPSKED, select the Help...Email-to-ByteBloc dropdown menu option, then select the Schedule Database option. When EPSKED asks if have EPSKED Email working on your computer, select "No".
2. You will be given the option of sending the schedule data file through your normal email program, which will automatically open with the name of the file you need to manually attach listed in the body of the email. But, do NOT attach the file to the email. Instead:
3. In the automatically created instructions in the body of the email, highlight the entire name of the file from the initial 'C:' to the terminal 'zip'. (If your file name does not begin with a 'C:', that is OK -- just get what follows the "Please manually attach the following file..." instruction text.
4. RIGHT mouse click on the highlighted text, then select (left mouse click) the 'Copy' option from the dropdown list that appears. This copies the file name to the Windows clipboard.
5. Open the transferbigfiles website in your browser
6. Right click the "Select file" textbox then select the 'Paste' option:
7. The name of the file should paste into the "Select file" textbox.
8. Enter: support@bytebloc.com as the recipient email address.
9. Click the Certify checkbox, then click the 'Send It!' button.

Your file will be uploaded to the TransferBigFiles server. We will receive an email letting us know of the upload, and we can then download the file.