I see there is Global Product check box on the Product Group. According to help it should make the Product groups global across all companies. It appears to be a back end check box. I have customized the screen to put it on there so I can check it. It is saving but I don’t see the other companies. Anyone know if this works?
To my knowledge, there are a lot of tables that you can see the Global flag, which turn out not to be global items.
My general rule of thumb is to open the Global Table and see the list there.
I think more items may become global in the future, but for now there are a lot of tables that have the global flag that aren’t actually global. (There is a global product group table, so I am not sure why this isn’t in place).
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Yeah, I tried checking it but doesn’t seem to do anything.
So according to support I should be able to run the Multi-Company Direct Server Process to have it go across all companies. It didn’t work but I missed some other setups. I will post what I find out later. 
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Interesting. I’d love to hear how to do it…
nope, it doesn’t work as expected. We talk with support and they told us the following…
The product group can be flagged as global but it will follow only for the part flagged as global, not the full product group table, means you need to create the product group in the child company before flagging as global and have the product group field of the part table selected in the global table, so that way will be assigned to that specific part in the child company.
So maybe someday it will function differently…I know I wish is did now.
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How on earth would it handle GLC’s across companies?
Yeah. I think it has to be set up “globally” by doing it in each company. That way global parts will hit the right group/GLC combo based on each company’s standards.
(Although in our case, no GLC tied to PGs)
So it’s more like a flag that says “Is visible to global parts”, rather than “is visible in all companies” ??
No, I think it’s a flag that may (in the future) be used for global PGs, but for now I had to do what @Kimberley said and create the exact same list in all of our companies so when global parts get linked and updated they get the correct PG.
I just fail to see why anyone would link multiple companies in Epicor.
I mean, I sure get the desire for it, and strongly, strongly considered it before adding our other division as a site and not a company.
But it just seems like very, very little actually synchronizes across companies. For all of that, you might as well have really separate companies in Epicor - don’t even try to link them together formally. Just wing it.
I would hope that many here can prove me wrong, but I just can’t see it.
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