Modern software design sucks eggs. When you use an application like YouTube, you expect the primary purpose is to find certain videos you want to watch. Instead, you realize its purpose is to keep your eyeballs on the screen. When you use Microsoft Teams, you realize the purpose of the application is to tell you […]
At Deft Flux, we value Relationships, Humor, and Beauty. When we say we value relationships, it means we sacrifice technology on the altar of relationships (not the other way round); it means we value people over mammon; it means we believe efficiency often comes at a price that we are unwilling to pay. We bend technology to […]
Recently, we have made a determination. If you are standing up an enterprise database to support mission critical applications, Oracle is the only database worth considering. Microsoft SQL Server is fine as far as you can throw it. If you plan to go beyond a mid-tier application, however, you will eventually wish you had used […]
Several of our clients have experienced the infamous 7175 error and the subsequent "Tried to call a method in an invalid procedure. (7224)" error. This error normally indicates a broken network connection between the client machine and the server, so after a user sees this error, Epicor will stop functioning withal. For users with elusive […]
On occasion, an Epicor ERP user will want to write a report that requires a hierarchical view of a part's multi-level bill of material. In Epicor, we would prefer to do this using a Business Activity Query (BAQ). The Epicor 10 BAQ tool is much more powerful than the tool from version 9, so it […]
At Deft Flux, we are curing business information headaches, and we are doing it because we care. Here is an example. Epicor has several different paths whereby one may create a customization. So far, we have found the Business Process Management (BPM) method directive to be the most useful. Why? BPMs are powerful: BPMs are […]
To display WordPress categories in a paragraph with comma separators instead of bullet points, you need to modify the code that displays them.You can use the the_category function, but change the separator parameter. Here's how: Code This will display the categories separated by a comma and a space. You can adjust the separator as needed. Code Example: If you have […]