Popups could be fun. You have a code sample?
Brenda
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jckinneman
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 7:06 PM
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Subject: [Vantage] Re: Need input from E9 Product Configurator Users
The User Interface can sometimes be limiting (no grids for example) but since you can call the Business Objects to talk to the configuration you can build any kind of front end you like to interact with user and populate the underlying controls.
For example you could build a custom .net c# popup that interacts with the user and then stores the results in the configurator for later use by the method rules. It is also very easy to build an import routine using either service connect or embedded to bring in data from other applications.
Jim Kinneman
Encompass Solutions, Inc
Brenda
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jckinneman
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 7:06 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Need input from E9 Product Configurator Users
The User Interface can sometimes be limiting (no grids for example) but since you can call the Business Objects to talk to the configuration you can build any kind of front end you like to interact with user and populate the underlying controls.
For example you could build a custom .net c# popup that interacts with the user and then stores the results in the configurator for later use by the method rules. It is also very easy to build an import routine using either service connect or embedded to bring in data from other applications.
Jim Kinneman
Encompass Solutions, Inc
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>, "Todd Gilbert" <todd@...<mailto:todd@...>> wrote:
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> Thanks for the input Brenda. It sounds like your scenario is closest to how we hope to use the Configurator. If you could provide any additional detail on the things you mentioned, it would be much appreciated. You can contact me directly if you’d like: todd@...
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> LOVE the configurator. We are extremely custom and use it for quoting, engineering jobs, shipping and a few other things that it was probably not originally designed to do. We add a little service connect action in there and it is amazing what fun things you can do :D
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> Brenda (E9.05.607B)
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Steven Gotschall
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> We are on 8.03.408a and use the configurator a lot. Its a great tool with a few gotchas.
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> Our products have many options available, and this is where the configurator comes in. The way we use it is to select a base model number, then select all the options the customer has asked for, and then the configurator creates the smart part number and method for us.
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> The downside is that setting up and making changes to a configurable part can be time consuming. But once it is set up, using it is fast and easy. Our initial mistake was to set up one configurator to configure multiple model numbers. While this sounds like a good idea, the configurator can grow too large to manage and you run into the problem that a single configurator can only create one revision of a part. So if one model in the configurator changes revisions and the others don't, you have to break the configurator apart. Stick to one configurator for each model number of part.
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> We looked at a number of ERP systems before settling on Vantage. Vantage was the only one that had a configurator flexible enough to handle our needs.
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> To fully utilize the configurator, you need someone with some basic programming skills to set up the individual configurators.
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> Steven G.
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> We are getting ready to do a complete install of Epicor 9 (as opposed to a migration) from Vantage 6.1 and are strongly considering adding on Product Configurator.
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> I would be very interested in hearing from users of this module (successful or otherwise):
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> - What type of scenarios is it used for?
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