M3 Customization: A Tale of Costs/Benefits
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Customizatio n: A Tale Of Cost/Benefit s The First Of A Three Part Series
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Customization: A Tale Of
Cost/BenefitsThe First Of A Three Part Series
What We Will Review• Reason Or Need• What To Do• Review Of M3 Panels• What To Change• Why Customize• How To• QA
Reason / Needs• Maybe your current CSR’s cannot keep up:
o with entering orderso checking order statuso trackingo customer lookupo e-Commerce and Mobile Apps
• Adding CSR’s is costly and a never ending expense
• Speed up the process• So customize
Reason / Needs
What To Do• First and foremost to review and verify your
process:o The process review will insure that any
software based solutions will meet your needso The process review may reveal internal process
changes that will enhance any software usedo The process review will give us our needs
analysis or wish list if you so choose to call it that
Review The M3 Panels• Gather a list of all the fields in each panel :
o Create a list of fields and panels• Field level help• Meta Data Publisher• Your favorite Metadata tool
What To Change• Panel Level With jScript
o If a simple look up is all you need then jScript • Custom External
o If you need complete control customization is the way to go
Why Custom External• Precise control
o We get exactly what we wanto It is tailored to our exact need
• Will provide a “loosely coupled” applicationo Maintenance is easiero Upgrades have little to no impact
How To• API’s• MITest• Troubleshooting• Coding• Testing• Deployment
How To• API’s
o Are the vehicle we will use to insure our data goes to the right place
o We use the API rather than direct writes to the database to insure our integrity
o But how do we find the right API
How To• MITest
How To• Troubleshooting
o M3-API-WSo We can test API’s or Web Services
How To• Coding
o Panel jScripto Dot Net Public Class BaseAPIMI
' this is where we will store the fields themselvesDim lsFields As List(Of mvxAPIField) ' the program name eg. OIS100MIPublic Property ProgramName As String ' the name of the transaction eg. AddBatchHeadPublic Property TransactionName As Stringretrieve all of the fields for this version that are In fields (ie. fields that we will send to MoveX) Dim vFields = From field In lsFields Where field.Version = astrVersion And field.Direction = "I" Select field If Not vFields Is Nothing Then If Enumerable.Count(vFields) >= 1 Then For Each apifCurrentField As mvxAPIField In vFields If Not apifCurrentField Is Nothing Then Dim iFrom As Int32 = apifCurrentField.FromAsInt() Dim iLength As Int32 = apifCurrentField.LengthAsInt() ' retrieve the value of the field at a specific location and for a specific length Mid(strPopulatedString, iFrom, iLength) = apifCurrentField.Value End If Next End If End If CreateInString = strPopulatedStringEnd Function
How To• Testing
o M3-API-WSo We can test API’s or Web Services
How To• Deployment
o We can now take our custom app to our own Web Server
Also consider• Availability of resources within the company and
outside that can support the development• Upgrade friendliness• Performance• Dependencies• Security
Additional help
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