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I’ll be surprised if DMT changes? I would bet actual money that we’ll still have good old DMT after 2026.1. Maaaaaaybe launchable from a common navigation panel, but I’d bet that DMT.exe is going to stick around.
Anyway we’ll find out sooner than later I hope…
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DMT Will remain a stand alone tool (as it is today) as part of the power tools.
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Ahhh, that’s why they’re called Power Tools and not Power Tool.
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Will BPMs also be part of the power tools at some point? I know there’s the browser (preview) version right now, but I would think it would make sense to keep them in the power tools “toolbox” along with functions. Maybe BAQs too…
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There is a web browser version that works great…
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I’m with you, no reason BPMs and BAQs should be excluded from the “Power Tools”
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What is the hope here with BPMs and BAQs in Power Tools? That the classic interface for these won’t die?
So… you all are expecting Epicor to maintain the new browser/Kinetic version of these AND maintain changes to the classic version?
I mean, I know, you all would be happy if the browser versions were the ones that died. Or if the Power Tools version was nothing but a code editor (no widgets ever again).
I’m just saying, it’s unlikely…
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the power tools version of function editor takes on the same look as the browser version of BPMs and BAQs.
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No, they need to decide and place them all in one place, regardless of where they end up.
They all belong together.
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I live with this now - I only make BAQs in the browser, except for the occasional uBAQ (I’m on 2023.2). Then I switch to the desktop client for BPMs and the other stuff.
It is annoying, yes, of course. Guess I am just used to the pain.
I sure hope they have improved the Kinetic BPM designer though. It’s… not ready yet in 2023.2.
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Trying to read in between the lines on Powertools… what is the deal here?
Are DMT/APR/Functions just the things they couldn’t get to in time and so they repackaged the classic programs into a new windows app so they could get away with the Classic sunset for May 2026???
Or is there something inherent about those programs that make them incompatible with the Browser?
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Just guessing, but I would think the long term plan is browser.
Not sure what they’d do about dmt though. Some kind of edge agent abomination lol?
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Why do we all use VSCode or Visual Studio desktop apps to develop and write code… web browsers aren’t really the place for this type of work
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Random side note:
I found this cool github repo that will package any website and turn it into a desktop app. GitHub - nativefier/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application
Using this is miles better than trying to deal with browser tab hell
Try it out at your discretion and inspect the github repo before using!
I had created this idea Electron App for Kinetic but Epicor didnt seem to like it (or anyone else 
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Although, there are groups of devs who use GitHub Codespaces, which is VSCode in the cloud. It brings all of your extensions with you, so you don’t have to add them to a new machine. It works on an iPad if that’s your thing, and you resume a session from any other session. You can play with it in any repository in GitHub by pressing the ‘.’ in any repository. The first 60 hours are free.
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