I see there’s very little in the DMT related to Product configurator. And then looking at E10, I see some big differences from V8.
Is there any way to migrate product configurator? Or do I have to bite the bullet and build them all from scratch? (Which isn’t a terrible thing as there’s lots of house keeping that needed to be done with ours in V8 anyway).
Calvin
Hello Calvin,
The configurator went through a complete rewrite for version 10. My guess
is you’ll be better off building them from scratch. We migrated our db
from 9.05 to 10.0.700 but in the end we basically had to rebuild 90% of
them anyway.
My 2 cents…
Norman Hutchins
System Administrator
Howell Laboratories, Inc.
I figured as much. Just hoping there were some shortcuts to creating the inputs and what not.
Hi Calvin,
We migrated from E9 to E10 so I don’t know if it is the same as V8.
I was able to keep all the pages and inputs but had to rewrite all of the code from ABL to C#.
For us, our configurators have a lot of inputs and the thought of completely rebuilding it seemed too daunting.
Over all this worked well. The programming logic was the same but just had to rewrite to C# and took advantage of some of the “cool” features of .Net that were not available in ABL.
JOE ROJAS
Epicor Applications Manager
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Our “migration” isn’t a conversion from V8. We did a bare install of E10 and then use DMT to port over the data we want from V8.
I agree. The ABL code wil need to be reprogrammed. Also, I do not believe there is an config export for V8 to enable you to pull in the page inputs. So those will need to be redone. However having the page layout and logic already laid out will make the creation of the new E10 configurations easier than from scratch