After going back and forth, I am now playing with on prem storage. I have our dev environment attached to on prem. I am just now trying to figure out if I can somehow enforce a naming convention per location.
So I pretty much got what I wanted, except one little thing got added on to this from some users. They want the our parts to have images. Uh okay I can look into that. I figured our how to upload images, but these image donât go to my on Prem server. I asked Epicor last week how to change the location and point it toward my file share. No answer -.-
Because itâs not designed that way. The built in image stuff in Epicor is Db blobs.
You could customize around it if you really need that to happen.
I have some code that around here that does part of it. ( The retrieval side should be similar.)
That being said, I really think you need to reconsider cloud storage of some type.
Itâs been a minute, but refresh us on your whole situation.
Are you on-prem, private cloud, SaaS?
Multiple locations, etc?
What all are you wanting to store and how do you want to use it?
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We are Kinetic (cloud). I came in after the company decided to go with Epicor. I think the UI is horrendous and their support has not been very good. Implementation wasnât well either from what I head. No one took the the time to configure and move a lot of data from one ERP to another. That being said, we have a lot of information I donât want on the cloud. Our rep didnât give me a clear answer on storage cost and no one asked that question before implementation. Therefore I would rather dump things on an on prem server so if we move away from this, our proprietary information is on our servers and not Epicor.
Youâre gonna have a lot of pain with a cloud ERP and on prem storage.
Iâd seriously look at using SharePoint.
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Currently, if you store your images in the database, thatâs included with your subscription and no extra costs to you. But like Kevin suggests, youâre better off putting those files into some kind of content management system. It will give you more security options than network shares ever will, and it works well with a browser whether you run an ERP on prem or in the cloud.
It really doesnât matter where it is. It needs to be protected. Many believe that JUST being on prem is safer. It is not. Most here have heard my rant but if youâre interested, I wrote an article about this last year.
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Attachments are not stored in database. Only their file names.
Also cloud does not store user attachments, they are always on userâs storage, either files, or SharePoint, Google, DropBox or ECM(if on-prem, otherwise technically Epoicor stores it in the cloud).
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Olga is correct here. (Redundant) Things like Part Images are stored in the database. If weâre talkiing attachments, then itâs just like she says.
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But they donât have to be, got a library for that 
(Note â retrieve only, didnât implement storage)
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