I'm trying to connect to Epicor905 and post a journal entry programmatically.
I found the below code which connects to Epicor. However, I am unable to locate any info on accessing the GL Journal Entry module. I'm fairly new to C# and just want someone to point me in the right direction logically/technically. I understand that the core of it is working with DLLs and the business objects. But beyond that I am clueless. Here is the code I found to connect to EPICOR:
using Ice.Core;
using Erp.Common;
try
{
Session obj = new Session("manager", "manager", Session.LicenseType.Default, #"C:\Epicor\E10Pilot.sysconfig");
if (obj != null)
{
MessageBox.Show("Sesion valida");
obj.Dispose();
obj = null;
}
}
catch (Exception error)
{
MessageBox.Show(error.Message);
}
The easiest way to identify the calls required is to start client tracing and run through the process you wish to automate in the UI. This will record the calls that the UI makes for your particular process. You should then be able to replicate them in your code.
You will need to reference the contract assembly for each BO required from your client directory.
This will take some experimentation to identify the right calls but this is exactly how the CSG team in Epicor would approach this.
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I am a long time c# developer but brand new to QBFC. I have downloaded the samples and was actually able to add an invoice to my file with it, but I am a little confused. I have trouble connecting unless QB is up and running. I was trying to follow the code in the sample, but it is difficult. I need this app to add invoices and bills to the file even if QB is not open. They only have one file so there won't be an instance where another file is already open. Also, the environment is simple as everything runs on the same computer.
My basic questions are:
How to select the correct QB file and provide credentials to allow access?
Is there a decent simple example using QBFC? Everything I have found is using XML which seems overly complicated compared to QBFC.
I cannot seem to get QB to open automatically. I have tried the code below and I get an error that states "Could not start QuickBooks".
Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
QBSessionManager qbSession = new QBSessionManager();
qbSession.OpenConnection("", "Lumber Management System");
try
{
qbSession.BeginSession("C:\\Users\\Jerry\\Documents\\QuickBooks\\Company Files\\MRJ Tecnology, LLC", ENOpenMode.omDontCare);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message + '\n' + ex.StackTrace, "Error opening QB");
}
There are a couple of things that you need in order for this to work. The first time that you request access to a company file, QuickBooks must be opened and the Admin must be logged in. The Admin will then be given a dialog to grant permission to your application to access QuickBooks. In the permission dialog, it will ask the Admin if they want to allow the application to read and modify the company file with four options:
No
Yes, prompt each time
Yes, whenever this QuickBooks company file is open
Yes, always; allow access even if QuickBooks is not running
The admin must choose the fourth option to allow your app to launch QuickBooks without running.
I would also suggest that you use OpenConnection2 instead of OpenConnection, and use a unique ID as the first parameter. You will also need to specify the connection type, which should be ENConnectionType.ctLocalQBD.
It also appears that the filename you are passing in the BeginSession call does not include the .qbw extension. Here is a basic sample:
QBSessionManager SessionManager = null;
try
{
SessionManager = new QBSessionManager();
SessionManager.OpenConnection2("UniqueAppID", "Lumber Management System", ENConnectionType.ctLocalQBD);
SessionManager.BeginSession("C:\\Users\\Jerry\\Documents\\QuickBooks\\Company Files\\MRJ Tecnology, LLC.qbw", ENOpenMode.omSingleUser);
// CODE TO SEND TO QB GOES HERE
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error opening QB:" + ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
if(SessionManager != null)
{
SessionManager.EndSession();
SessionManager.CloseConnection();
}
}
I am aware of the option to call RFC-functions with .NCo 3.0 but is it possible to call transactions/programs directly with the SAP Connector? (Like using the fields defined in SAP as parameters and fill them, or use a variation, something like this?).
This answer provides a workaround that I am aware of, and sure - I could call a VBScript from my C# code but that is not what I want to do.
I also checked all of the 64 Questions tagged with sap-connector but there was nowhere a direct answer if it is possible or not.
Also the SAP documentations I got from the SAP marketplace aren't mentioning transactions/programs at all. Does this mean it is not wanted/possible ?
If so, why is it possible to do it with macros/pre-recorded VBScripts but not with the .NET-Connector ? Or am I just doing something wrong ?
When I try to call a program/transaction with the standart-code:
SAPHandle.ECCDestinationConfig cfg = new SAPHandle.ECCDestinationConfig();
RfcDestinationManager.RegisterDestinationConfiguration(cfg);
RfcDestination dest = RfcDestinationManager.GetDestination("QP2");
dest.Ping(); //works fine -> Connection is OK
RfcRepository repo = dest.Repository;
IRfcFunction zzmkalzzm23fnc = repo.CreateFunction("ZMZKALZZM23");
it gives me the following (expectable) error:
metadata for function ZMZKALZZM23 not available: FU_NOT_FOUND:
function module ZMZKALZZM23 is not available
CreateFunction, as the name already suggests, creates a proxy to call a remote-enabled function module in the SAP system. You can't call a transaction or program this way. I am not aware of any way to call a report with SAP .Net Connector. The solution you linked uses SAP Gui, which provides the SAP system with a UI to display graphical elements. AFAIK, SAP NCo doesn't provide such an interface and you can't call reports from NCo.
However, there are products that allow you to execute transactions and catch their output. We are using the product Theobald Xtract to extract SAP ERP data for BI purposes, but they also have a more generic .Net library (Theobald ERPConnect) available that may be able to provide this functionality. It won't be as simple as calling a function and extracting the strongly typed data, but with some filtering you should be able to get the output you need. Those products are not cheap, but they do provide a nice set of functionality you otherwise would have to reinvent yourself.
Some example code how you could call the transaction you ended up calling through VBS-Scripts.
From the Theobald ERPConnect Knowledgbase:
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Reset the batch steps
transaction1.BatchSteps.Clear();
// fill new steps
transaction1.ExecutionMode = ERPConnect.Utils.TransactionDialogMode.ShowOnlyErrors;
transaction1.TCode = "MMBE";
transaction1.AddStepSetNewDynpro("RMMMBEST","1000");
transaction1.AddStepSetOKCode("ONLI");
transaction1.AddStepSetCursor("MS_WERKS-LOW");
transaction1.AddStepSetField("MS_MATNR-LOW",textBox1.Text);
transaction1.AddStepSetField("MS_WERKS-LOW",textBox2.Text);
// connect to SAP
r3Connection1.UseGui = true;
R3Connection r3Connection1= new R3Connection("SAPServer",00,"SAPUser","Password","EN","800");
r3Connection1.Open(false);
// Run
transaction1.Execut e();
}
Even though my last questions weren't accepted well, I will give it another try.
I'm working on a program that is capable of controlling a lot of office-application behaviour by using the COM/Interop-Interface Microsoft provided for Word/Access/Excel. Still some functions differ from each other in the way that they are kept specific for the program that gets addressed.
My ambition is to Insert Macro-Code to an existing Access-Database and run the code while the Database is open and delete the code before the Database closes down. Partially this works as wished by using following C# code:
VBProject found = null;
Access.Application currApplication = this._currentInstance.Application;
if (target.Equals("") || scriptText.Equals(""))
return false;
foreach (VBProject vb in currApplication.VBE.VBProjects)
{
if (currApplication.CurrentDb().Name.Equals(vb.FileName))
{
found = vb;
break;
}
}
if (found != null)
{
foreach (VBComponent foundComponent in found.VBComponents)
{
if (foundComponent.Name.Equals(target))
{
return true;
}
}
VBComponent module = found.VBComponents.Add(vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule);
module.Name = target;
module.CodeModule.AddFromString(scriptText);
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
Now in particular, Access makes a diversion between VBA-Code-Modules which are visible in the Code-Editor and Modules which are loaded into the Database itself. For inserting the Module into the Database, it needs to be saved another time. When using the GUI, there's a window that popsup and asks for the Name to be used when saving it into the DB. It already takes the correct one etc. and it's fine after doing it by hand.
Besides the manual solution I found no way to do this step programatically.
Initial thoughts were:
currApplication.DoCmd.OpenModule(target, Type.Missing);
currApplication.DoCmd.Save(Access.AcObjectType.acMacro, target);
or
found.VBE.ActiveVBProject.SaveAs("");
The only two methods I could imagine would be doing the step I wanted. VBE in it's new .NET compatible form is documented very bad. Methods that would have applied to the native version are not guilty anymore. So I'm stuck with it now.
In case someone asks, why would you save the module at all, because once it's inserted in VBE it can be run like any other module listed in Access also, that's true, but for some unknown reasons this seems to be more fault-prone then to save it twice. Got runtime errors (like 2501) while launching the macro, which is not the case when it's saved properly.
Keeping it forever in the Access-Databases would be the last option but since those are many MDBs and thus they are changing frequently, I thought it would be nice to have it dynamic.
Hope somebody understands what I wrote here, (not so easy for me), and is enabled to help somehow :)
Thanks for all the reading. Looking forward for some good results, from the best community, hehe.
I am having some problems in communicating between actors in Cluster.
My test project has this structure below.
TestJob [C# Console Project]
TestJobService.cs
TestJobActor
MainProject [C# Console Project] //Note: I configured this service as a seed node. I didn't use lighthouse.
MainService
JobManagerActor
Note: I don't want to put actors in Shared project or Main project. The actors that are supposed to do a test job should be under "TestJob" project.
I already followed this article http://getakka.net/docs/clustering/cluster-overview and video. I did enable Akka.Cluster based on the article. I am able to run both console projects but when I tried to "tell" from JobManagerActor to TestJobActor, it doesn't work. No error but doesn't work.
I have this config in MainProject.
actor {
provider = "Akka.Cluster.ClusterActorRefProvider, Akka.Cluster"
deployment {
/TestJobAActor {
router = consistent-hashing-group
routees.paths = ["/user/TestJobAActor"]
virtual-nodes-factor = 8
cluster {
enabled = on
max-nr-of-instances-per-node = 2
allow-local-routees = off
use-role = backend
}
}
}
}
Here is the code that I use for sending the message.
var backendRouter = Context.ActorOf(Props.Empty.WithRouter(new ClusterRouterGroup(new ConsistentHashingGroup("/user/TestJobAActor"),new ClusterRouterGroupSettings(10, false, "backend", ImmutableHashSet.Create("/user/TestJobAActor")))));
backendRouter.Tell("Yo yo!");
What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
Note: My test project with similar structure can be found here https://github.com/michaelsync/APMDemo . (VS2015 project)
One more question: Can we still use the actor selection when using cluster?
var actorSelection = Context.ActorSelection("akka.tcp://MyBackendProcessingSystem#127.0.0.1:2553/user/BackEndJobAActor"); //This can come from Model
actorSelection.Tell("Yo yo!");
No worries!
I managed to fix it myself. You can see the fixes in my temp repo https://github.com/michaelsync/APMDemo/tree/allinoneproject.
The problem was that I didn't know I need to use IConsistentHashable for sending message in consistent-route. I keep on sending the string and didn't work.
local route was off.
I am working on a Custom Workflow within CRM 2011. I have created the workflow to create a couple of records (invoice and invoice product) once I get a particular type of Activity (a custom activity). During the testing I passed the particular GUID of the entity I would be working with (the creation of said entity would be the trigger for the workflow). The workflow works fine when I pass in a GUID for the record I want to work with. However, once I load the dll File inside CRM and attempt to trigger the workflow it goes into a waiting status and stays there. I have try catch blocks on all of my functions with a throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("Error occurred in MethodName:" + ex.Message);. It does not fail or stop but just continues in a waiting status.
I have tried to Reset :
IIS
async service
Sync Services
(Have Tried Edit:
Adding Version Control
Uninstall / Reinstall assembly)
Currently I am attempting to pull the activity id of the PrimaryEntityId as my primary entity is the record I need to use for the workflow. The only thing that I need from that record is the ID.
public String GetFeeId(WorkFlowHelper workFlowHelper, CodeActivityContext executionContext)
{
String feeRecordId = string.Empty;
try
{
var primaryEntity = workFlowHelper.workFlowContext.PrimaryEntityId;
if (primaryEntity != null)
{
feeRecordId = workFlowHelper.workFlowContext.PrimaryEntityId.ToString();
}
if (primaryEntity == null)
{
workFlowHelper.WorkFlowError("Primary Entity is null");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (workFlowHelper.debugMessagesOn == true)
{
Console.WriteLine("Id is blank!");
}
workFlowHelper.WorkFlowError(ex.ToString());
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("Error occured in ConnectionInfo Method:" + ex.Message);
}
return feeRecordId;
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks,
It sounds like CRM may be having a problem loading your assembly, or confusing it for an older version of the same assembly.
Are you versioning your workflow assembly while you develop and deploy it, and is the assembly signed with a strong-name key?
In Visual Studio on the Project tab, make sure you increment the Build/Revision number. See this article: http://gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.com/2011/08/assembly-versioning-in-crm-2011.html
If you don't increment the Build/Revision, CRM may not see your updated assembly as an "update" and may be trying to use an older, cached version, which can cause all kinds of problems.
You may also try unregistering the assembly completely and then registering your latest version. You might need to update your workflows as well.
Here's the most simplest way (taken out your WorkFlowHelper)..
public String GetFeeId(CodeActivityContext executionContext)
{
// Create the context
var context = executionContext.GetExtension<IWorkflowContext>();
var feeRecordId = context.PrimaryEntityId
}