Wildcard for username with file attachments for Attachment Type Maintenance

Epicor ERP 10
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Recently switched to Office 365 and Azure AD and have gone serverless at our office. Which is great.

One thing I didn’t think of is that, even though we’re using Epicor Cloud the file attachments are stored locally.

Since all the users have a OneDrive specifc to them, I was thinking I could map a sharepoint folder with all the Epicor file attachments.

Previously they had them all on a mapped drive every user had to the server.

Examples:
(Previously)
S:/Epicor/Attachments

(what I’d like to do)
C:\Users%USERNAME%\OneDrive\Epicor\Attachments\

Problem is, Epicor doesn’t like %USERNAME% as an option. And since every user has a different username, well that won’t work. Unless someone else has a solution to a wildcard for a username in a directory structure for Epicor.

Otherwise I’ll have to come up with something else.

2

Create one AAD user and use it for all attachments? use the name instead of %UserName%. Use SharePoint attachment type.

Also, what about Azure Files? may be it can be used as replacement for file shares?

3

Seems like that would work but it would require logging into every machine with said new user and I don’t believe it will sync data to onedrive when the user isn’t logged in, so that would be a nonstarter.

4

I thought you would use it in attachments system, so file be uploaded by the client, not syncronizing data automatically.

5

I don’t know any better but if I attach the file from my client PC and then I try to access it from another PC, wouldn’t that not work?

I assumed the files are still stored locally. Not actually uploaded to Epicor. Or are they uploaded to Epicor servers?

I don’t know as I haven’t had to deal with this side of Epicor yet.