Application Studio vs BPM

[jsmuland (Josh Smuland)]

Greetings all,

As I have been working on new Kinetic applications and more specialized business functions I find myself torn between trying to make applications with events that call BO’s or writing a BPM to do the same thing. I am not down with functions yet.

A specific example I started questioning this under is a job scheduling dashboard. Use the BO events in App Studio to change the job schedule or use a updatable BAQ with BPMs?

The only reason I can come up with why to do one over the other is for scope. The BPMs can trigger on any similar BO through DMT, API or other calls.

Just want a sanity check if there is a best practice here. Please let me know your thoughts.

[josecgomez]

@jsmuland

Just want a sanity check if there is a best practice here.

I mean I’m not the dictator of best practices but I am certainly well opinionated on the topic (almost any topic just ask @jgiese.wci and @Banderson ).

I would say if you can avoid making BO calls on AppStudio then do.

@jsmuland

I am not down with functions yet.

Get into them, they are the best thing that Epicor has given us in years.

I will almost never make BO calls in App Studio. Move all your calls to functions and BPMs, move all your logic to the back end. I just posted this on another topic but frankly it applies for this too so I won’t repeat myself I’ll point you in that direction instead

IssueReturn PerformMaterialMovement REST call not showing in PartTran

As @Mark_Wonsil always says I would highly recommend you write a function that will take the 2 or 3 parameters you actually need and do the Issue Return from there server side thus abstracting the complexity. Abstracting complex logic into a server-side function has several advantages over directly hitting complex endpoints from the client: Simplified Client Code: By abstracting the logic, your client code becomes much simpler. You can encapsulate all the intricate details and business rules…

[Banderson (Brandon Anderson)]

[jsmuland (Josh Smuland)]

Fast and clean. Thank you! I will scroll through this. I was also watching the " Anyone have principles used to ensure top-quality development in Kinetic?"

Functions have always been looming in the background for me and it seems like its time to just dive in. It was on the list for when we start making API calls to other platforms.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Functions are super easy, at least in comparison to other approaches.

[Kieran (Kieran Millward)]

I’m booked in for the Functions extended education session at insights AUS in a couple weeks as I need to start digging into this feature myself.

[jgiese.wci (Joshua Giese)]

@hkeric.wci recently learned the power of EFX he’s on the boat now too. They are absolutely fantastic.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Just now? Wow, I’d have thought he’d have already been all over it.

But also, change is hard. Who moved my ?

[Mark_Wonsil]

@jgiese.wci

@hkeric.wci recently learned the power of EFX he’s on the boat now too.

Oh, my. I can’t wait to see what he does with it.