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Yupā¦ 6 years. And no I donāt have a masters. Just a BS in Electrical Engineering.
High school was a breeze for me. I never studied. Then when I got to college, the first semester was pretty much like high school (I had AP Physics and Calc in high school). Then the second semester kicked my ass. I also didnāt realize that everyone else in Drexelās engineering programs were the tops of their class too. I couldnāt coast by like I did in high school.
And for full disclosure, Drexel was a 5 year school. So taking 6 years was only 20% more. Unlike those losers that took 5 years in a 4 year program. Thatās 25% more 
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Just to remind those who havenāt seen Animal House, when the fraternity was expelled:
Bluto : Christ! Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f***ing Peace Corps!
Separately, I was on the five year plan because I switched from Physics to Math and Comp Sci.
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Ok guys, Iām going to do an impromptu session tomorrow morning at 9am Est. If youāre interested in joining, Iāll post a meeting link here about 15 min beforehand.
Anyone NOT ok with Teams? I might still have an active gotomeeting account 
Thatās ok, I crammed 4 years of college into 5. And still didnāt end up using my major.
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Teams Link - (deleted)
Questions, and possibly answers to those questions
EDIT: This went well, sorry if I talked too much
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Thanks @josecgomez, my pleasure to give back to the group. And thanks all for the feedback in the Teams chat window. If you want more info/time on the subject just reach out.
@gpayne, @jeowings, @chaddb, @Doug.C (nice to meet you to!), @ckrusen, and @amaragni
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It was really good information. I am able to picture some of our processes and I can finally link them to what I think should happen in DocStar.
One of the things I thought of is we use Bartender to label some of our receipts based on job/SO links. I may start spitting out an identifying label on all receipts that the receiving team can throw on these packslips so when they scan into the source folder the OCR will be able to route outside documents to those receipts.
Thanks again for sharing with the group!
This sounds like what we are thinking about too!!! We receive items that we really should records as Lot numbers, with their own attachments ( a mill spec certification sheet for eachā thingā) and scanning those via the barcode would be really easy too!
Glad I could help spark some ideas @Doug.C!
Now ā¦ can you send some time my way? I seem to have misplaced about 6 hours.
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Wish I could have attended 
Just could not find a way to fit into schedule.
@josecgomez We are implementing with GoLive beginning Oct. Full DocStar/Ancora, APR, Service Connect, QuickShip only thing I know we not doing out the gate is payroll that is through ADP.
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We just went live in March and DocStar was and still is a huge struggle. It is not integrated into various E10 areas like Inspection Processing. We purchased the ECM but they would not give us import rights or any workflow functionality for all out documents because we did not buy AP.
It has been super messy trying work with anyone to fix anything. I have submitted bugs, but E10 and the DocStar teams point fingers at each other about whoās fault it is. Apparently DocStar cannot access anything in E10 that is a SQL View ābecause it is a virtual tableā. Anyway we are seriously looking for a more open transparent document management system if anyone has suggestions.
@CSmith - do you want to have a chat about some things? Iām open for knowledge sharing all the time 
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@Mike_M - Sounds like your situation has some problems. Iāll agree that the Epicor development team hasnāt fully assimilated the Docstar code into their cycle of sprints, and I know they have a good size backlog. Iāve had good success with them doing a few one-offs for some bugs (like LDAP integration) that made it into the latest release, so I know theyāre working on stuff.
As for importing documents, there is a licensing āthingā when using OCR, but the Docstar client process handles all the batch importing you want to do. Iām working through 100k documents now and not using Ancora/OCR for any of it because Iām bringing in the metadata via CSV and XML.
But your other two comments have me intrigued as to how you are trying to use it. Docstar is never āintegratedā into Epicor other than how many hooks Epicor has for Attachments. Itās always been a one-way street with ERP -> ECM. Docstar allows for pushing back attachment links and querying for data inside Epicor (for use in Metadata or workflows). I do this stuff all over the place.
Epicor has attachment links in DMR/Corrective Actions, ECO, Equipment Maintenance plans, Inspection Attributes and Results, Maintenance Requests, PartRev Inspection Plans and about 100 more. When you create a document type and associate it with one of those entities, the link is built into Docstar and youāre ready to go.
As for accessing SQL data inside Epicor and āvirtual tablesā, Iām wondering what you mean because you set up the DataLinks, and they are pure SQL, so ANY object inside the database is fair game. I do this a lot as well.
And if youāve got the workflow modules and maybe forms, thereās not much you canāt do.
Iād really like to chat with you and see whatās going on. I know a few of the guys on yesterdayās call got some great ideas from my examples and our conversation, perhaps we could do that same.
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Thank you Mike
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@MikeGross I would appreciate a chat once I have a few more things to talk over. I find often I gain insights by following along on other issues and the framework becomes more clear for me. Thank you for your kind offer!!
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Sounds like they are close to finding their buyer.
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They donāt have a single tech company in their portfolio. But then again, Koch Industries bought Inforā¦
Looks like a done deal.