I’m happy to announce that our first plug-in is almost finished.
This plugin is fairly simple. It resolves a simple problem in Interprise Suite. When you set Min/Max/Reorder points for items, you have to open each item and set them individually.
Our plug-in allows you to set an optional filter to a single item category and/or warehouse and retrieve a list of the item records. You can then edit the Min, Max, Reorder Point, and Stock Take Days for the list of items in a grid. Once you have completed your edit, you can save any changes back to the IS database. It’s fast and clean and works with both LAN and Internet connectivity. You can even drag additional columns onto the grid to display current stock and transaction levels.
We have 2 challenges:
Deployment – The current SDK has no deployment capabilities built in. We are developing a plug-in installer that will install the SQL objects and copy the appropriate files into the proper folders. From there, you’ll need to go into IS and actually import the plug-in and put it on the menu. In the future, the SDK will allow us to build something closer to a “one click deployment”, but for now, this is the best we can do. We’re almost finished with the installer programming.
SP2 – Interprise Suite will be releasing SP2 very soon. We don’t want to release our “proof of concept” plug-in only to have some unknown incompatibility problem with SP2. So we’ll wait a few days until we can test it fully before we release.
Note that this plug-in will be free! We hope everyone will download it and try it out. We will provide documentation and a video describing how to complete the installation.
We look forward to your feedback. Stay tuned for the release!