As you all may know, Kinetic 2023.1 is coming, and will be released in May to on-prem customers, and in June to all cloud customers.
Want to see what is coming? We presented a preview of what is in many of the Operations screen changes during a Webinar last week. You can see a video recording of the Webinar here: Sneak Peek: Browser UX Enhancements | Epicor U.S.
In the next few weeks we will also be showing a preview of the changes in the Financial screens as well.
I missed the webinar, but Iâve got the recording in my inbox. Iâll have to make time to watch it.
Thanks Tim.
Hi @timshuwy,
I heard about this webinar from a friend, after it had already taken place. I have emails from my CAM recently about some other webinars, but not this one.
What mailing list do I need to be a part of to be notified about these kinds of webinars? I definitely would have registered for this one.
Hello @timshuwy Tim,
Those enhancements look great.
Do you know if these UI/UX layout changes/improvements are being tested on heavily customized kinetic layers. If controls were moved from one container to another, how will the upgraded layers react to those changes? In the webinar they show merged panels, panels to tabs, promoted and demoted fields, components were moved between columns, moved to/from the Full Screen section, etc. Is this going to impact layout changes on Kinetic custom layers?
Whenever possible, we try to keep custom fields on their own custom panel, or at least group them together in columns or boxes, I guess in those cases there wonât be a problem, but I wonder if fields added in between standard components will.
talk to your CAM, and they can make sure that you are on the right mailing list. I believe that the list was derived from our list of users in EpicCare⌠we sent out many thousand invitations, and had over 600 people commit to coming.
Note that if you have been marked as no-contact you didnât receive an invite.
even if you were not registered, you can register to view the recording by following the link provided.
Great questionsâŚ
Testing in heavily customized kinetic layers: We have done some internal testing, applying a custom layer to these changes, but our NEXT test will be with the âControlled Releaseâ coming in April where âreal usersâ will do just as you have asked⌠applying REAL USE CASE Heavily customized Kinetic Screens.
In the end, I believe that there will need to be some adjustments if you did some heavy customizations. So far, those customers who we have done âone-on-oneâ demonstrations have said that they are willing to take the hit to get these enhancements.
I am already running into problems with this between 2021 and 2022 - we had added a custom field to the hero bar in order entry in 2021. Well, in 2022 epicor also decided to add a new tag field to the hero bar. When upgrading, our custom field does remain in the hero bar BUT salesperson which is a standard field in the hero bar is completely gone. It appears that the conversion process wiped out a standard field in making room for the new tag field. Am I now supposed to have to create a customization to add the salesperson back in again? Seems absurd. I have been trying to report this to support for weeks with no success, they simply wonât acknowledge that there is an upgrade problem. This type of thing makes me incredibly apprehensive to move more screens from classic to kinetic - I donât want to have to redo the layers every time we upgrade and it really damages Epicorâs creditability when there are statements about âseamless upgradesâ.
Iâm about 3/4 through the video, and Iâm pleased with what I see.
@aosemwengie1 can you send me the call number at tshoemaker@epicor.com? I will see if i can get someone in Dev to take a look⌠it may not have gotten past the support team.
Great webinar. Super happy to see that the changes cover a lot of âwish listâ items for productivity improvements and UI fixes.
The screen layouts (especially tab cards) look much easier to navigate. Excited to try out the release in April.
@timshuwy, in the video you mentioned there was a separate video for the finance screens. When will that session take place or when will the recording be available?
The e-mail I received showed it being on the 15th.
as @Doug.C mentioned, the finance version will be on March 15th at 1:00 central time. Some of the content will be the same, BUT there will definately be some new content including a demo of cut/paste using grids in some financial pages, new AP/AR/GL Group landing pages, the new âProcure to Pay EXPLORERâ page, and more.
Could you post a link to the Financial screens as well?
The Financial webinar is here: Kinetic Browser UX Enhancements for Financial Users | Epicor U.S.
The Ops webinar is here: Sneak Peek: Browser UX Enhancements | Epicor U.S.
Thank you!
Will these enhancements all be in 2023.1 or is there a list of those that are?
Download âWhatâs New 2023.1 - Kinetic UI-UX Updates.pdfâ from Epicweb. All changes are there.
Where did you find that in EpicWeb? I canât seem to locate it, even tried searching the document name and got no results.
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