Thanks! The personalization really helps. I agree with you. The company should be an option during login.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Brian W. Spolarich " <bspolarich@...> wrote:
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> You can right-click on the status bar at the bottom of the window and select Personalize so you can view your current company.
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> There's no way however to change your company in MES.
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> The company that is selected is the company that your Vantage userid was last logged onto when they last quit the regular Vantage client. Note that this is not necessarily the same company your userid may be logged into at the moment with the client. IMHO, the field in your user record really should be updated every time you change companies, not when you log out.
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> It would also be nice to be able to just change companies in MES.
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> This can lead to confusion. I got a silly 'works as designed' response and an opportunity to do a justification for an enhancement request when I complained to support that this was silly.
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> My suggestion is for MES systems to have a standard logon that only has access to a single company.
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> -bws
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jeffery_p_sanders
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:24 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] MES - Quick Question
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> How do you determine which company you are logging onto when you log into MES?
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