How to keep two version of Configurators and able to Reconfigure

Kinetic ERP
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Currently we are doing conversion of Classic configurator to Kinetic. We ran into some issues during the conversion and I would like to keep both configurator running in parallel to make sure the calculation behave as expected on the Kinetic version before I un-approve the classic version.

The question I have is, how do I switch configurator in the Quotation when a configured part number is created. If I want to re-configured the part, is there a easy way to swap it?

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I believe the only way to do this is to utilize the part revisions. Currently, when we update a configurator drastically that it changes the MOM/BOM, we issue a new revision to the part and link the new PCFG to that revision. It should work for what you want to do as well, as that is our plan too.

I should mention that if you do inventory by part rev, that may complicate this process. We do not so it works. Your sales and production folks will need to be extra careful though.

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If you have multiple revisions as @MikeGross described, you can have one revision tied to the classic and one tied to the Kinetic configurators.

When you configure a part and it changes the Part Number, it saves the original Part Num and Revision in the fields QuoteDtl.BasePartNum and QuoteDtl.BaseRevisionNum. If you were to manipulated the BaseRevisionNum, you could theoretically open a different configurator on reconfigure. If your input names are the same in both configurators, it should work.

So if you have ConfigurablePartNum Revision A tied to classic and Revision B tied to Kinetic. You configure Rev A and it gives configured partnum CFG-PN-01 rev A. Then manipulate QuoteDtl.BaseRevisionNum to “B”, then select Reconfigure, it should open up in the Kinetic Configurator.

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Note the “Theoretically” and “Should”. I have done this before but it was with two Classic configurators, not Classic and Kinetic.

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How will the user update the QuoteDtl.BaseRevisionNum to “B”.

Currently, my part has this Revision attached which is the Version B of the configurator.
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I have got a version K for my new Kinetic configurator.

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You’ll need to do something to allow them to manipulate it. Something along the lines of a BPM that changes the BaseRevisionNum if the RevisionNum is changed.

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You could replace the ‘Configure” button with one of your own that first asks the user which PCFG(Version) they want to use then continue on to reconfigure.

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