Kinetic - Picture Box

[rppmorris (ROBERTO MORRIS)]

Using the Classic UI on version 2022.2.10 - I display a jpeg image of Parts:

Using a screen customisation:

1. I define a path - string path = @"\\xxx\xxxxxxx\xxxxxxxxxx";
2. I define a filename - string filename = view.dataView[args.Row]["PartNum"].ToString() + ".jpg";
3. If the file exists, I then display the image.

Has anyone done similar in Kinetic or know how this might be achieved.

I know I will need to attach my code to something triggered through JobEntry.

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

I have not played around with images within Epicor (yet)… but Kinetic App Studio has a Picture Box widget. Perhaps you can start here:

Kinetic Control Compendium

Part Rev Description Allows a user to configure Part, Revision, and Description controls in a single, grouped widget. [image] Property Group Property Description Basic Id Unique identifier for the control Basic Label Part Sets the label within the control for the Part. (Fig. A) Basic Label Revision Sets the label within the control for the Rev. (Fig. A) Basic Label Description Sets the label within the control for the Desc. (Fig. A) Behavior On Search Click Allows you to crea…

[isnaeni.nurfalah (Isnaeni N)]

Create function to convert unc path into base64 string and store in TransView.ImageContent (adjust to the picturebox epbinding)

[rppmorris (ROBERTO MORRIS)]

Thanks @isnaeni.nurfalah - I’ll give this a try.

[rppmorris (ROBERTO MORRIS)]

Thanks @dcamlin - I’ve had a look at Experts’ Corner post and it’s an excellent resource.

Thank you @hmwillett for creating such a helpful resource.

[aulrickson (Alex Ulrickson)]

Any chance you walk through this a little more in depth? I think that I understand the concept but would LOVE to see an example of the Event workflow and Function being used if you wouldn’t mind sharing

[isnaeni.nurfalah (Isnaeni N)]

In my case, i am load picture form last attachment image from table. So, i used trigger event after aftergetbyid to call function.

Function used:
ImageHelper.efxb (15.9 KB)

[aulrickson (Alex Ulrickson)]

Thank you so much for your help and such a fast response!

[josephp (Joseph Pisano)]

@rppmorris

We were wondering about this as well in Kinetic… Seems like this is something they overlooked or should be working on (if they are not already). This is a great candidate for Epicor Ideas, if it’s not already up there…

We will probably come back to this thread at somepoint and try what is suggested above - if you end up coding something that works well for you, please pass it on via a follow-up reply.

Thanks!

[Mark_Wonsil]

@josephp

We were wondering about this as well in Kinetic… Seems like this is something they overlooked or should be working on (if they are not already).

There are a couple of things going on here.

UNC paths are not accessible to web pages for obvious security reasons. A web page/script should not have access to local resources. That is why it worked with a DOTNET application and not a Kinetic page.

The solution is to serve the file up using https. @isnaeni.nurfalah is doing this by storing the image in the Kinetic database instead of a network share and delivering it via an Epicor Function exposed via https.

This solution assumes this is the only place that image appears. If we want to use that image in other applications (M365 or another web app) then one would have to either keep a second copy of the image outside of the Kinetic database for non-Kinetic users to access or use Kinetic has a file server and add Kinetic licenses to all users who need to access that image.

If we use IIS to serve up those images, then one could use the PictureBox with a Link attachment type in Kinetic and also serve the images to non-Kinetic users.

Bonus, in the web server solution, images will be cached. With the Epicor function, they will be served every time.

Epicor has a solution with the Edge Client that is supposed to work with file shares. It becomes the web server for UNC files.