Sharing links not working due to "&useBroadcast=1" in url?

Its nice that Epicor has sharing functionality; makes it nice to email colleagues about a case/order/service job or whatever BUT they often don’t work, and just result in a blank Kinetic screen.

It looks to me like its because the links are including the “&useBroadcast=1” parameter in the url. Removing this from the url seems to make the link work. Its a bit much to expect our users to fiddle with this though.

Anyone know of a fix for this (aside from hand editing the url) before I start a case? I thought I’d find the tool/action and have a crack at tweaking it, maybe just adding a string replace to the url to eliminate the problem switch; But I can’t see where these “standard” tools (E-Signatures, Share etc) are defined- guessing they are baked in, though populating the specific row identifier (eg KeyFields.JobNum=…) seems fairly unique to each form…

UPDATE looks like its just copying the current URL. So If I open the job from job entry, useBroadcast is not included. But If say I’ve jumped to the job from a sales order, then its there.

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I’m just digging into this today and found this post in a search.

I’m working with Kinetic in a browser.

In my case, I’ve customized Project Entry to show the Build Project Analysis tool in the toolbar instead of in the overflow menu. I’m finding that if I open Project Entry from the main menu or home page shortcut, the Build Project Analysis tool is in the toolbar; if I jump to (open with…) Project Entry from another app, it’s back in the overflow menu. Other than that, the changes in my customization layer seem to be intact. The URL includes “&useBroadcast=1” when jumping to Project Entry from another app.