I know nothing. I do not have it.
Would this product allow me to create a form to create parts in a custom fashion, so I didn’t have to use part entry?
IE, I set up options and such, and in the end, create a part from those.
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Yep. We have hundreds of parts that we wished we didn’t now, because we let the configurator add things to the part master. If you have infinite permutations, I wouldn’t recommend it.
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We need to make stock parts for ongoing use.
Honestly, with your coding skills you could probably recreate what they have for the configurator pretty quickly. Its pretty neglected. I’m thinking of ditching it entirely.
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Give me about a week and I will publish my Part Creation tool. It is nothing fancy, just a bunch of drop downs driven by a UD table. But it pretty much does what you are asking.
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I’m not so good with the web ui yet, and I’m certainly not going to make a classic form.
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well, I don’t know much about the Kinetic version either, the coding parts are pretty much the same, but last attempt I made the UI stuff was so frustrating I gave up.
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For what you’re trying to achieve it’d be perfectly fine, I think.
Like Evan and John said, it can be a nice additional tool for creating custom parts on the fly that then get added to the DB and you can customize how the part string is generated to match the format that you guys use already.
The setup can be a little tricky initially but using it for custom part gen is pretty easy to maintain. It’s when you start to get more involved the true fun begins. 
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Don’t use any message boxes if you want the VEC process to do anything.
Haven’t found any way to call an Epicor Function from configurator, but hoping to use @klincecum 's function runner at some point.
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Ooooo yeah. I’ve learned that lesson a couple times already.
I think one of my biggest gripes with the configurator is how little it interfaces with Kinetic itself. They kind of act independent from each other outside of actual configuration sessions/creating parts/rules.
I’ve raised the question with support and consultants a couple of times, and it can be difficult to get a firm answer on how bringing the two together can be achieved.
I would just love to be able to make the config and Kinetic one happy family.
Maybe someday. 
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I believe they are dropping the legacy configurator all together and will start pushing the CPQ. Just my opinion based on Inspection Plans taking a gigantic step backwards with the loss of the configurator.
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Inspection Plans lost the configurator?
In Kinetic they sure did. There are a few posts on here about it. Here is one of them.
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Might be the best choice. The rest of the tooling has gotten so much better since Configurators first came into existence. Epicor functions are better than Configurator UD methods. BAQ’s are better than PC lookups.
Since they broke everything switching to Kinetic anyway, I think they should have simplified configurators to just be something that ties together these better technologies they have created instead of having separate, similar technologies.
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The trick was running client-side code.
The problem is all the fun stuff is server side!
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Oh, and another thing. Instead of cramming XML into the database, it should use the tech they developed for the Cloud SDK and actually make a table with the right fields. .
Edit: thinking about that a little longer, that might not work out good if you are the sort to delete and add inputs to your configurators all the time and not want historic data wiped.
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With the Kinetic UI, you don’t have to write the screen generator like you did for classic. It still stuffs all of that JSON into the same place but, meh, whatever.
And yes, better storage would be nice. I am sympathetic that matching versions of configurators with the data is a complicated problem.
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It was…
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To eliminate the xml pains and maintain historic data I added ud fields for each configurators questions on the order entry and quote tables. I just set the related field to the answer from the configurator and now I have history that is easily searchable. It also makes it really easy to see when someone changes sales order comments as the generated value from the configurator is stored in a ud field also for comparison.
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