Hi everyone, we are currently implementing kinetic…we are going paperless on the shopfloor and shop floor workers will need to view work instruction and drawings relating to the job.
We have purchased DocStar and expected for the documents to just pop up so that they can be viewed but it seems the only option throughout kinetic is to download and then view afterwards.
As we are using android based tablets with limited storage, and user computer knowledge is limited, i really do not want them having to download documents to the tablet.
Has anyone found a way around this? I have logged an Epicor Idea ( KIN-I-4485) but i cannot believe that its not standard function to be able to just click a hyperlink and open the document online somehow without downloading.
We are literally just running into this. Has anybody done anything with this yet? We are looking for a quick way to add back to this the view from this exact place.
I’m going to talk to our in-house dev about this tomorrow. Any good place to start? I’m going to have him look at the attachments where the view link does exist to start.
This will be a MUST as people adopt and are forced into Browser-based. I’m going to vote on your idea now.
We have not found a solution to this yet (admittedly i have moved onto more pressing matters!) so if you do get something working i would be very keen to know.
In the meantime i will look at the suggestion below from @klincecum
I’m not sure of the details, but our dev. was able to find a way to link the File Name using an OPEN URL call to have the PDFs pull up in the MES. It works great, for us, for now. Ideally, we would be able to use the “file:///FILENAME” convention to open in another tab, but this is a GREAT second.
One can spin up IIS and map a directory to files and serve them to the browser. The trick, if it’s important, is to maintain the original file access. If the web server has access to every file, then so will every user.
