Great post everyone.
Thanks @pbparker if you do post your solution I’ll move this thread to the “Experts Corner” for posterity since it would answer both the question of how to do it in Web Access and how do it in the Fat Client. Let us know
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Will do Jose, will post the template and the on the fly rewriting.
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Just an update, was able to get both methods working fine. Let me clean up my hacked up code and share what I did.
It works nicely in IE. Chrome however seems to want to have the file downloaded to fire off the file - which isn’t very clean as it leaves all these files in the Downloads folder. For us it’s not a problem because we use IE for the company, but I could see this being a hangup for others.
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Any code snippets you’d be willing to share in this post would be really great.
Found a few items of interest.
First, if you don’t have the full client running (not MES) and you click the link - it will fire and open the window (Job Tracker in my case) and consumes a DefaultUser (Full client) license. If you leave that window open and click another link, it will utilize that existing license. However if you still have that window open and then start your full client - it will consume an additional license. So - it’s best to have the full client running before clicking links to reduce license consumption (especially if you run tight on licenses).
The second issue is, and I haven’t worked through it yet so need some help - it consumes the full license and not a DataCollection (MES) license like I want it to.
Anyone know a way to force the MES client to open by setting the sysconfig to do so? I found a DataCollectionUser tag and set that to true - however that didn’t work.
Finally got a definitive answer from Epicor, unfortunately there is no way to fire from a .sysconfig file the Epicor client with a DataCollection (MES) license.
Anyone know in Epicor Web Access if it supports MES in 10.1.600?
That kind of works. Just for clarification, you can use the following:
http://SERVER-ADDRESS/EpicorWebAccess/ice.ewa.syslogin.aspx?Return=erp.menu.mes.mesmenu.aspx
This will push you to the MES interface, however it appears that this also toggles the default interface for every user hitting the EWA to default to MES.
To specify the interface you want the user to have - it appears then you need to supply full interface calls for both sides. So, URL for full interface would be then:
http://SERVER-ADDRESS/EpicorWebAccess/ice.ewa.syslogin.aspx?Return=ice.ewa.shell.aspx
Either way, trying to then execute the MES interface and then open Job Tracker like the following does not work. It presents you with the MES login however you’re not seamlessly shown the Job Tracker as intended or wanted.
Seems my efforts on this aren’t going to turn out well. I can share with everyone a way to have a clickable way of a web page that opens up the full client or the web client to a specific object (i.e. Job Tracker and a job) however it will always consume a full license and not a MES license.