When a user logs into MES it should ask for their PassWord. I have half my users that it does ask for it and half it does not. Anyone out there know what is going on or how to sovle the issue.
Thanks,
Link the Employee ID to the User Account.
When I made the User I added the employee. Is that what you are referring too>
The User Account needs to be Linked to the Employee Record. And the employee Record needs to be linked to the User Account
in User Maintenance and Emploee Maintenance
To expand on what Jose is saying, you can have Employees that can clock into stuff and use MES, but not have an actual UserID to actually log into Epicor. I think it’s common practice to have a shop login for the MES stations around. For those that don’t have an epicor UserID just typing in their Employee number doesn’t ask for a password, because, well, they don’t have one. If you want it to ask for their password, then link the Employee record to the User ID, and it will ask for the password. If you don’t have it linked, I would assume it uses the permissions of the login that was used to open MES, but I would have to test that to make sure.
This is new since 10.1 I think? Prior to that, it didn’t ask for another password. I’m assuming it’s because it’s probably likely that those with actual userID’s generally have more permissions.
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It may also be that on some of the client the sysconfig file that the mes is using has the user name and password used by the mes hard coded and on others it is not - this mean the mes would open without asking for a user or a password - an employee would still be required to start production, issue materials etc - see below.
You can do that? Anyone know how to set that up?
Brandon, You can do this by changing the lines I thought I had attached on the sysconfig for the appropriate Epicor client - see below - hopefully will appear this time -
<userSettings>
<!-- provide values for UserID and Password to enable auto-login -->
<UserID value="the user name" />
<Password value="the password" />
For us we created a generic shop floor user in the Epicor client and then added this to the sysconfig file for the MES that is pushed out to each shop floor machine. Each session uses a MES licence.
We subsequently broke this down a bit to a shop floor 1, 2,3,4 ,5 etc user so as we could identify where a transaction happened a bit better.
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Thanks, Just what I needed
Thanks, I will keep this for future reference>
There must be another step in there. You can’t just add the user name and ID, unless there are some other restrictions in play. When you try to start with the SysConfig altered, it still asks for the user name and ID, and clears out those values in the SysConfig.
Brandon,
As of E10 you can’t do this any longer manually. You can do it inside epicor. There’s a new Password Policy Maintenance Screeen that needs to be set to Allow save passwords
Once this is set then inside of Epicor you can chose to save the password which will be encrypted and stored in the sys config
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We are on 10.0.7.4 and this works without issue, as it did in previous versions. This logon restriction must be on more recent versions of E10.