Is there an easy way to limit access to Inventory Adjustment within MES? Right now if we check the box for Material Handler then by default that person will have access to Inventory Adjustment. We want them to have access to everything in the Material Handler tab except for Inventory Adjustment.
I do realize we could do a customization to simply hide the button in MES, but that would block it for ALL users of MES and there are two people that we want to have it. I really don’t want to hard-code usernames into a customization, so am looking for a clever alternative. Any ideas?
Correct me if I’m wrong but Menu Security affects actual Epicor users, not MES employee IDs. MES rights are manged at the Employee ID level, they are check boxes on the employee.
They must be logged in as some user. A generic shop floor user or material handler user. No matter what they have to be under some user of some description to get into MES. If you look at part tran you’ll see that user on everything. That user shouldn’t have access to do Inventory Adjustment.
FWIW because the user is tracked with the transactions created, we require material handlers to have actual Epicor user IDs so we can see who did what moves in Part Tran easier. The Employee ID is recorded but not exposed in vanilla, nor is there a name pulled. It’s annoying.
It is a generic Epicor user named SHOP and no it doesn’t have rights to do inventory adjustment. We went so far as to mark Inventory Adjustment to Security Manager Only in Epicor, but that has zero impact on MES rights. MES rights are managed through the check boxes on the employee ID.
That’s still launching a menu ID somewhere in the menu tree. The button might show up but they should get an error launching the screen. MES is still impacted by Menu Security.
This is good for visual reference, it will disable the button, but I would still set proper group security at the menu level, or even betterer that and process security if you’re feeling spunky.
So @jgiese.wci was correct all along. What we did wrong was that when testing to see if the rights applied to different MES employee IDs, we were doing it when signed into Windows as a user that DID have the Epicor rights. Because we are SSO, that little detail is easy to forget about.
Anyway, when we did test removing the rights via Menu Maint and then signing onto Windows as SHOP, then MES started behaving as you describe. Sorry to waste your time, that was a foolish mistake on my part!
