ERA 7.0 with Office XP

[Guest_imported]

We recently upgraded to Office XP, and now can't export to Excel. Epicor provides a patch to fix this with Office 2000, but not XP. Any ideas?

 

[fareopagita]

Hi,

We have been using Platinum (e by Epicor) for almost three (3) years now and I dont remember epicor releasing Platinum for Windows XP. We are currently using Platinum 7.2 with Windows 2000 and Sequel Server SQL 2000.

I am sorry to say but I think you have to go back to either Windows 98 or 2000.

Freddie Areopagita
Business Systems Specialist

 

[matahari]

What version of Platinum are u using?

 

[fareopagita]

At present we are using Platinum 7.0b w/ SQL 7. But by first quarter of next year we will be migrating to 7.2 w/ SQL2000. I have finished testing 7.2 w/ SQL2000 and also our migration and is hopeful that by next year we will be able to migrate to the new system.

Freddie Areopagita
Business Systems Specialist III

 

[bbrendan]

Hi,

We currently are running Epicor 7.2 with Sql2000 SP1

I have found that the 7.2 client runs like a dog on our client machines and these are HP PIII 750MHZ machines with 128MB ram!!!.
The client is a BIG install.
I found that you have Forms that will not open up and so-on.

So I ended up installing Terminal Services on a spare server and now it runs very well.

This has some major advantages over client installs, including trying to patch each machine, and having easy access to clients when a problem arises.

I cant say ive tried to install on an xp machine. I use Win2000.

But I cant get the crystal reports to run under XP.
We use CRV8 which is what ships with 7.2

So to get around this I installed a webserver verion of CR8 and this seems to have done the trick

HTH
brendan

 

[jeffinperth]

to bbrendan,
When you say the client install runs like a dog, are you referring to the back office or front office ?

jeff

 

[bbrendan]

Hi Jeff,

This is backoffice. We dont run front office

cheers