We can do better Modern software design sucks eggs. When you use an application like YouTube, you expect the primary purpose is to find certain videos you want to watch. Instead, you realize its purpose is to keep your eyeballs on the screen. When you use Microsoft Teams, you realize the purpose of the application is to tell you about
Author: Adam Patrick
At Deft Flux, we value Relationships, Humor, and Beauty. When we say we value relationships, it means we sacrifice technology on the altar of relationships (not the other way round); it means we value people over mammon; it means we believe efficiency often comes at a price that we are unwilling to pay. We bend technology to our will. Note that
Recently, we have had to find the answer to an important question: Why does pasting into a grid cell overwrite the whole cell and refresh the page? The answer it seems, is complicated. JDE 9.2 has two paste functions you should be aware of – grid paste, and value (normal) paste.
Recently, we have made a determination. If you are standing up an enterprise database to support mission critical applications, Oracle is the only database worth considering. Microsoft SQL Server is fine as far as you can throw it. If you plan to go beyond a mid-tier application, however, you will eventually wish you had used Oracle. At IBM databases, we
If you have been using Epicor for some time at your place of business, you have encountered the need to send the output of a report to a directory on the network. If you only need to do this once, you can simply print to your PDF writer and send it to the directory. If you need to do this
Several of our clients have experienced the infamous 7175 error and the subsequent “Tried to call a method in an invalid procedure. (7224)” error. This error normally indicates a broken network connection between the client machine and the server, so after a user sees this error, Epicor will stop functioning withal. For users with elusive but persistent network hiccups, this
At Deft Flux, we are often asked how users might customize the Epicor MES menu. For example, a company may want to allow all employees who use MES to access the PO Tracker. The empty buttons in the standard MES menu are not created to readily call new programs, so the path to customize the menu buttons is not obvious.
How have we at Deft Flux made life easier by implementing elegant solutions to real business requirements? Herewith, we present two examples. Company A needs to produce an XML file for the Job Order Interface of its Trumpf Inventory Manager Machine. Company A also needs to produce a tab-delimited advanced ship notice (ASN) for upload to a customer’s system. Both