The Supplier Tracker program in E9 was called Epicor.mfg.SupplierTracker.dll and that could be customized and added to a different menu branch in Menu Maintenance. Now in E10 Supplier Tracker menu item uses Erp.UI.VendorEntry.dll with some sort of hidden argument to convert the Supplier Maintenance program into the Supplier Tracker (which has extra tabs that are not in the maintenance form). I have two problems with this:
When I open Supplier Tracker in developer mode and try to customize a tab, as soon as I try move an element, the entire Epicor application freezes and must be forcibly closed.
I can’t figure out how to add Supplier Tracker to a new branch of the menu, because I don’t know how to add that hidden argument to VendorEntry.dll in Menu Maintenance.
Same situation for PO Tracker, and possibly more.trackers. What’s the trick?
We had to struggle with this during our E9 to E10 upgrade over the summer. I’m sorry that I’ve forgotten some of the details of exactly how it was done, but I’m providing screenshots that might help you move in right direction. I do recall we had to do full rebuild of customization on supplier tracker, it couldn’t be upgraded in E9.
Also, you need to ensure you setup the context menu to call the correct tracker… we had to do it for some of the other trackers (e.g., PO tracker, and I think “where used”, as well, maybe others). Note the form name in yellow highlight on our SupplierTrackerTUSA customization. I believe this was key to getting it done.
Thanks, Nancy. That’s a start on the customization piece.
I did learn that the Menu table must be updated in SQL to get the necessary Supplier Tracker argument into the added menu item for our custom menu groups.
