Thanks @josecgomez I will look into it.
Yeah it’s pretty gross
Can you disable Kinetic in 400 ? If not I won’t bother upgrading until we can use our customizations.
@mmcwilliams in 400 you have to work (kinda hard) to even get to the Kinetic stuff. So don’t worry about it. It is there if you want it but it is not being shoved down your throat. (yet)
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This works for me. Does anyone know if there is a URL to get to the same screen in a browser?
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Sure thing
https://<YourServer.Tld>/<YourAppServerInstance>/app/MES
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Thanks, I managed to figure that out, but I get weird screens after that and can’t seem to get anything to work.
I click accept.
Not sure what to enter here to make it happy.
Enter my Epicor user name & password, but no luck…
The same thing happens when I try the HomePageUrl value https:///<YourServer.Tld>//Apps/Erp/Home
Nevermind, I got it working; it wanted <YourServer.Tld/YourAppServerInstance> as the server in the second window.
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is this favicon for MES normal vs. the ActiveHome Page?
That’s the default angular favicon i’m guessing Epicor doesn’t (yet) expect you to access MES via the URl
Gotcha!
I’m trying to see if it would be possible to do simple MES things on an inexpensive Android tablet.
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Good news is it seems to work fairly well on our old Nexus 9.
In my really short testing, there is only 1 major issue; job attachments do not seem to work. They show up under job detail, but the button doesn’t seem to do anything. This happens in the desktop browser as well, but not in the ‘real’ MES kinetic app.
I’m guessing that’s because it uses the CEFSharp (engine) to call in the Attachment DLL stuff which you can’t do in the browser native.
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I think so too and CEFSharp then opens up a Communication Bridge between C# and JavaScript.
Who would we have to ping at Epicor to find out what the plan to handle that is. That would be pretty difficult to do direct from the browser unless it’s very specific document types, blob stored, and downloadable
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Ouch… we really need that attachment function to work as well…
I wonder if Docstar attachments would work?
I don’t think they expect you (us) to be running this on the Browser Yet. That’s vNext (500+) if I had a guess.
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It does work @MikeGross if you run MES from within Epicor. @nhutchins is coloring outside the lines and running MES in the browser. Which I don’t believe is supported (yet)
Right, I saw that. We too want to put a bunch of cheap android devices down on the shop floor (about 30 of them) and not deal with client distributions or Remote Apps (RDP/TS) like we’re doing now.
We need to be able to do MES, plus use a few other apps we’re working on for the mobile platform, and access EDA (potentially) and maybe a little bit of PowerApps/Flow… We don’t have it all figured out yet…
The key for us is having access to our technical drawings via attachments and MES - the rest is all gravy - so I keyed in to what @nhutchins was saying…
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