You are brilliant, tried the single sign on option and it works much better.Thanks
Aman
Aman
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Brian W. Spolarich" <bspolarich@...> wrote:
>
> Options two or three are your choices I think.
>
> Option two could be made easier if you went with single-signon in
> Vantage instead of using separate passwords. This is enabled by turning
> on SingleSignOn option in the default.mfgsys file (which depending on
> your setup might require getting an updated file to every user
> workstation, although in theory there are ways to do this with Vantage's
> AutoUpdate feature). You'd also have to define the Windows domain and
> userid associated with each Vantage user. Then when you run Vantage, it
> will use the currently-signed on Windows user to select the Vantage user
> to signon without requiring a password step, which should make the
> Enterprise dashboard scenario much simpler.
>
> I've wanted to do that at my company but there's a lot of inertia in
> terms of processes, etc. once you have things out there with passwords.
>
> The third option could be made simpler by using a direct SQL
> connection instead of ODBC. You'll need to have SQL Native Client
> installed on every client system that needs to run the report, but
> that's a one-time deal and doesn't require you to mess with ODBC DSNs,
> etc. and instead just bake the necessary connection string into your
> Crystal Report.
>
> Since you have SQL, I'd just create a View that shows the join of
> glbcustomer g to customer c where g.custid=c.custid and show the fields
> you want.
>
> The query would look something like this (I think):
>
> select c.company as Ccompany, C.custid as Ccustid, c.custnum as
> Ccustnum, c.name as CName,
> g.company, g.custid, g.name, g.custnum, g.glbcompany, g.glbcustnum,
> g.glbcustid from glbcustomer g
> inner join customer c on g.glbcustnum = c.custnum and g.glbcompany =
> c.company
> where g.custid != ''
> order by c.custid
>
> -bws
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of aman
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:15 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Global Customer
>
> Hi,
>
> We are on Epicor 9.05.601 and there is a requirement for users to view
> global customers and to which company they are linked to. We have a
> master company and multiple subcribing companies linked to it. I
> initially thought this could be done using a BAQ on the glbcustomer
> table but that doesnt work. I can go down the route of enterprise
> dashboard but am struggling with users entering the password a number of
> times as we will eventually have 12 companies. The third route is an
> ODBC link into SQL through crystal report but was wondering if any of
> you have a better suggestion?
> Thanks
>
> Aman
>
>
>
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