Kinetic from a browser - how to print

There is a tool called Edge Agent that you can install on workstations. It will allow you to send a job to the printer directly.

  1. Enable the Edge Agent functionality: https://kinetichelp.epicor.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059917292-Enabling-Edge-Agent-Download-for-Client-Printing
  2. Install the Edge Agent: https://kinetichelp.epicor.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051774172-Understanding-Reports

Good luck

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Mr. Callum: Thank you for the tip. I did not realize the “Notifications” icon is essentially the system monitor. Thank you, that will work for now.

DaveO

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Downloading the Edge Agent install - gives an error.

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Perhaps check to see if the installer is in the expected location on the server and that the ‘epicordata’ folder is network shared and accessible by the client machine. When I tried setting it up following the Epicor help instructions on two machines it didn’t work for me but I also didn’t spend too long trying as am happy to just use download reports via the notifications pane for my current ad-hoc development/testing reporting use cases.

The Edge Agent seems to be a very early release/version (i.e. there’s still sections incomplete on the app and the content on it is still sparse) and therefore if you don’t need it for production purposes soon, I’d probably hold off a bit on spending too long on trying to get it working, if it doesn’t work for you when following the help instructions, as I suspect there will be a few updates coming to improve/fix it.
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Mr. Callum: I saw a paragraph in the Edge Printing Help doc that said Cloud customers have to submit a ticket to have their server “Edge Enabled”.

I submitted a ticket to Epicor.

Thanks for your help - The “Notification” tip will get us through for now.

Hello @DaveOlender,

Was Edge Agent Network Print enabled for you?

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Mr. Justice: I have not tried the Edge printing yet in Kinetic.

Sorry,

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Anyone know if edge printing works on a mac…?

yes, it works

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YESSS!

Thanks Olga!

Do you have a link to documentation on installing the utility @Olga ?

We are on prem.

i suppose my help link will differ from your help link because of version.
https://erphelp112200.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/5906560804493-Enabling-Edge-Agent-Download-for-Client-Printing
But just open homepage in browser, click F1, open any help link there and search for Edge Agent in the top right corner.

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Thanks Olga, and this edge agent works on prem too?

yes, it downloads from cloud CDN but works locally, you have to install it on each client.

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okay, thank you.

@Olga where are the instructions for installing it in local mode?

There’s info in the Install Guide (around p125)

It has to be enabled before it can be downloaded and you have to have admin privileges to install it.

IMHO, the Edge Client service is a move towards on-prem operations. Now there is something to install, and kept up-to-date, and it brings with it a level of security exposure since it can write to local storage. I believe that @edge (no relation) hinted that this might move to a web worker where the browser has a background thread checking for printing much like the current System Monitor running in your system tray. If they give the client Progressive Web App capabilities, then you get the web service worker automatically and potentially add some offline functionality.

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I notice the threat it brings based on the file access too…

Either way I need something so that I can use the browser. And we don’t always have printers networked so I was hoping to be able to set up the client to see local printers.

Mark, I downloaded the edge agent from company maintenance. This is also another way to download it.

I am looking for instructions on how to set it up, not how to download it (although that is the first step). Furthermore, I want to know how to set it up so that it sees printers local to the client.

Thanks for your help getting to the first step and your comments on the edge agent itself. I feel the same way and the browser thread would be cool.

Gotcha Buddy!

Once installed, right click on the icon in the System Tray:

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Choose the unobvious diagnostics page. This opens a web page as the Edge Client has a built-in web server.

Currently, I’m getting connection errors here on my Kinetic Test but I guess that’s why the diagnostics are there! :rofl:

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I got a PDF of how to set it up for local, but it was a pdf and not a link to epicweb so I can’t share it here.

It was as easy as downloading the edge agent, choosing local instead of network setup, then entering app server URLS.

I can’t seem to allow the download of the agent for my users even though I have it selected in company maintenance.

In short, I got it to connect and printed to a local printer of mine using the browser + edge agent.

I’ll upload a link to the document if I am provided one.

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