We us popups to inform users of atypical situations, where the popups are generally method directives. The issue we’re having is the popup shows multiple times in some situations(popup, click ok, popup …). I assume that means the same method is being called multiple times. As an example we have a po…

I learned the hard way (experience)… created a BPM that did something based on changing of a part number… then imported a quote and found that it was not triggering… Sometimes it is simply trial and error. Create a BPM, and then discover that it doesnt work, and do some research as to the differenc…

That is normally what this means. if you see a popup display hit twice, the BPM hit twice.

@timeshuwy would you run a trace and just look for another method to trigger the bpm on. If so any suggestions on which method to pick beyond the name of that other method seems like what we want(a bit of a guessing game)?

my one problem with “ChangePart” method is that it is NOT always triggered with every possible way to add a line item to an order… Consider the following: Manual Entry - will trigger when you enter the part Get Line from Quote - I dont believe it is triggered Push Quote to create new order - Not t…

@timshuwy thank you for “giving me a fish” this helps solve my immediate problem, but how do you know this about the ChangePart method(“how can I learn to fish”)? Is it just experience…?

A trick I learned here to stop things firing multiple times is; at the end of a bpm I set a callContextBpmData field to 1 or 2 min from now, and at the start of the BPM I have a condition that checks that the now date is equal or less than the callContextBpmData field ( I also have a “OR null” condi…

This seems to be working great for me in both cases, but it’s unclear to me how long the callContextBpmData is supposed to be hanging around. In my initial testing, I found that it seemed to go away after the current initiated UI event - for instance, if I went to the action mention and selected to…

Not 100% sure of the answer but there are a lot of posts on this forum regarding the topic It seems to vary depending on what screen you have open [image] CallContextBPMData variable scope ERP 10 What is the scope (or more specifically the life span) of a CallContextBPMD…

Method Directive BPMs called multiple times

Epicor ERP 10

LBARKER (Lawson Barker) February 25, 2021, 11:32pm 9

Not 100% sure of the answer but there are a lot of posts on this forum regarding the topic

It seems to vary depending on what screen you have open

https://www.epiusers.help/t/callcontextbpmdata-hack/54893/5?u=lbarker

https://www.epiusers.help/search?q=callContextBpmData%20category%3A5

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Method Directive BPMs called multiple times

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