We have 50+ configurators, and there are somedays I have to update all of them, such as adding a new checkbox to each. Has anyone found a way to unapprove or approve all of them at the same time, or at least where I don’t have to open each in Configurator Entry and do it manually? It’d save me at least half an hour each time I have to do it.
If you select all the Configurators to be updated in the search window, you can use the navigation bar to jump between them, without having to type the exact configurator ID in or searching each time.
If you open the Designer by using the context menu over the Config ID,
You can can leave the designer window open, and when you travel to the next Config In the Entry window, the Designer window automatically loads that configurators design.
Or are you configurators so complex, that they take a long time to lad when jumping from one to another?
It’s not that I have trouble editing them, it’s going through them all and unapproving/approving them. If you select a list of them and then approve an unapproved one, it clears the rest out of your list, so you have to search the list again.
On a side note, yes our configurators are massive, around 1,500 controls on the bigger ones probably. Its easiest to open 4 sessions of Epicor and have it split between my 2 monitors. Takes about 30-45 seconds to save something like an on changed event or saving a UDM.
You might be able to do half of it by making a uBAQ to “un-approve” them.
Not sure how a uBAQ would handle the “re-approving” as there is a pop up that requires entering a change memo…
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I’m sure it’d pop up a dialog box to enter it, worth a shot though!
We sort of have a similar problem and my configurator guy and I have talked about this… we thought maybe DMT or a uBAQ. I like the uBAQ idea from @ckrusen, but I’ve never tracked down the right table to update… Perhaps PcStatus?
I’ve looked in the DMT and it doesn’t have any of the configurator tables in it.
If I had to guess for the uBAQ, PcStatus seems right. I’m going to make one real quick because I’ve gotten another request in all the configurators.
It appears there is no UpdateExt Business Object to be able to reference and use to update the tables.
ConfiguratorApproval.baq (22.8 KB)
Here is the uBAQ that handles both un-approving and re-approving
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I’ll give it a shot! I clicked through the options for the Business Objects, but I must have missed that one.
I tried importing the BAQ, got it all set up, but it looks like that our ConfiguratorDef Business Object doesn’t have any Update Methods in it.
You are right - the designer in 10.2.200.xxx either displays an error or shows an empty method. This might be a bug or a “feature” - you might want to open a support ticket. The earlier uBAQ works in 10.2.300 and here is a version that uses an advanced BPM, in the uBAQ, to do the same thing and will work in 10.2.200. This version has hard coded values for updated by and audit comments but it is an easy change to switch that.ConfiguratorMassApproval-10.2.200.baq (27.1 KB)
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