Troubleshooting BPM C# with popups?

Epicor ERP 10
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When I create a new part and firm it we want an alert to fire for certain types of parts. The following simple BPM code is run.
If I look up email addresses in the user codes table instead of hard-coding them, I get an error.

What I really would like to know is how to pop open an alert whilst I’m troubleshooting to see how far the code is making it before it bombs. It’s something I do in other languages but don’t know how in Epicor code.

// Determine if an email is required.
// Only parts with Top40Job_c or ProblemJob_c need an email alert
// email will be based on the plant

callContextBpmData.Character01 = "";  // to email
callContextBpmData.Character02 = "";  // job meta info

var jh = ttJobHead.FirstOrDefault();

// find engineering user code - to address is LongDesc
// user code is specific to the company / plant 
  var usercode = ( from e in Db.UDCodes.With(LockHint.NoLock)
               where e.Company    == jh.Company 
               &&    e.CodeTypeID.ToUpper() == jh.Plant.ToUpper()
               &&    e.CodeID     == "ENG"
               select e).FirstOrDefault();         

//how can I pop open a message box here with something? How do you pop open message boxes in C# code? Something like a javascript alert('here'); so I can see where the code is and how far it gets?
         
// determine if part requires an email alert
  var part = ( from p in Db.Part.With(LockHint.NoLock)
         where p.Company == jh.Company 
         &&    p.PartNum == jh.PartNum
         select p).FirstOrDefault();

  if ( (part.Top40Job_c || part.ProblemJob_c) && jh.JobFirm ) {
  
if ( part.Top40Job_c ) {
  callContextBpmData.Character02 += " -top 40 job "; 
} 
if ( part.ProblemJob_c ) { 
  callContextBpmData.Character02 += " -problem job ";
}     
  
callContextBpmData.Character01 = usercode.LongDesc.ToString();

  }

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Perhaps something ala:

try
{
//some code you expect might fail
}
catch
{
//BPM message box code here
}

Another option is using code to write directly to the server event log.
Ice.Diagnostics.Log.WriteEntry(msg)

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I think he wants to know what is the syntax of:

//BPM message box code here

@smason - Just about any C# code will work. Google: c# messagebox

here’s a good link for the basics

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Correct. I’ve tried a bunch of different things that I’ve found on stack overflow and github but nothing seems to work or I don’t have the correct references or I’m not instantiating a message box. I don’t know what I need to be “Included” or how to include it.

I tried to add:
MessageBox.Show("HELLO");
I get syntax error: The name ‘MessageBox’ does not exist in the current context. I get that error a lot. I’m unsure of how to add dependencies that I guess C# requires.

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I constantly have to re-look up how to do it. Let me check my code to see what I’ve used.

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BPMs run at the server, so if the code did run, you wouldn’t see it at your client. That’s why BPMs have a message widget that passes that back to the client.

I would go with Chris’s suggestion and use logging.

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I just used this recently, I always have to refer back to it.

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Here’s a way from one of Chris’s other solutions:

this.PublishInfoMessage("yourstringhere", Ice.Common.BusinessObjectMessageType.Information, Ice.Bpm.InfoMessageDisplayMode.Individual, "", "");

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That worked pretty good. I guess that is how you do it. Thank you.

I knew Epicor must have had their own way to do it. Regular C# tutorials don’t mention that at all. Are there any C# Epicor BPM video tutorials? I can usually figure out the C# syntax but just not the Epicor way.

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Good deal! This forum is the best/only place that I know of.

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For anyone in the future that needs to do this. You can try this:

// setup message box parameters: mbp
  var mbp1 = "This is my message";  // text to appear on popup
  var mbp2 = Ice.Common.BusinessObjectMessageType.Information; //req'd don't change
  var mbp3 = Ice.Bpm.InfoMessageDisplayMode.Individual;
  var mbp4 = ""; // text that appears in popup Details button ->program field
  var mbp5 = ""; // text that appears in popup Details button ->method field

// call popup message
  this.PublishInfoMessage(mbp1, mbp2, mbp3, mbp4, mbp5);