Material Tags and Passing Data

Epicor ERP 10
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I worked through this process myself and I distilled it down to a set of steps I’ve written out for posterity.
After a tweak to BuildMtlTagParams, setIncomingParams is working for me, I’m on 10.2.200. The credit goes to jarrington and tmanjrekar. Thanks for the post!

Steps to get pack slip into CallContextBpmData

a. Create Material Tag Customization

  1. Turn on Developer Mode
  2. Open Receipt Entry
  3. Choose a PO and pack slip
  4. Go to Actions > Print Tags
  5. Wait for the Mtl tags form to open
  6. Go to Tools > customization
  7. Load the code in the “PrintTagCustomization.cs” file into the script editor
  8. Compile, save, and close
  9. Turn off Developer Mode
  10. Restart Epicor client.

b. Create “Material Tag” Process in Menu Maintenance

  1. Open Menu Maintenance
  2. Click on the “Processes” folder.
  3. Click “New group”
  4. Enter a menu ID. This guide will use “UD1000”. Any unique value is fine.
  5. Set Name to “Material Tag”.
  6. Choose the Program “Erp.UIRpt.MtlTags.dll”
  7. Choose the customization created in section a.
  8. Save and close

c. Create Process

  1. Open “Process Calling Maintenance”
  2. Set Called Process Reference to: “Erp.UIRpt.MtlTags”
  3. Set Called From to “Erp.UI.ReceiptEntry”
  4. Set Menu ID to use “UD1000”

d. Create Receipt Entry Customization

  1. Turn on Developer Mode
  2. Go to Tools > Customization
  3. Load the code in the “ReceiptEntryCustomization.cs” file into the script editor
  4. In the script editor, replace the menu ID with your menu ID, if different.
  5. In the script editor, replace the GUID for the Pack Slip Textbox if different.
  6. Compile, save, and close.
  7. Turn off Developer Mode.
  8. Restart Epicor client.

e. Activate Customization in Menu Maintenance

  1. Open Menu Maintenance
  2. Go to Main Menu > Material Management > Shipping / Receiving > General Operations > Receipt Entry
  3. Select the customization created in section d.
  4. Save and close

f. Resolving setIncomingParamsFromReceiptEntry Errors
If you encounter the error, “Index was outside the bounds of the array, caught in MtlTags.Transaction.setIncomingParamsFromReceiptEntry”, follow this.

  1. Turn on Developer Mode
  2. Open Receipt Entry
  3. Go to Tools > Customization
  4. In the script editor, the BuildMtlTagParams() method may need to be changed.
  5. To solve this, we must decompile the material tag code to know what information it expects to be sent from the Receipt Entry screen using a decompiler (e.g. DotPeek).
  6. Install a decompiler and load the dll from the Epicor Install path: Epicor\ERP10.2Client\Client\Erp.UIRpt.MtlTags.dll
  7. Select the namespace: Erp.UI.Rpt.MtlTags
  8. Select the type: Transaction
  9. Open method: setIncomingParamsFromReceiptEntry
  10. This method definition contains the “inverse” function to BuildMtlTagParams in the Receipt Entry Customization code.
  11. Modify the BuildMtlTagParams() method in the Receipt Entry Customization so that the parameters correspond to what is found in the setIncomingParamsFromReceiptEntry decompiled method.
  12. Save the customization and close.
  13. Turn off developer mode.
  14. Restart Epicor and test again.

PrintTagCustomization.cs (1.8 KB) ReceiptEntryCustomization.cs (5.9 KB)

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