my goodness...have we lost our holiday spirit? First Bill's post...now this.
Folks...been doing this for lot's of time...I learn something new every day. Something that might seem "stupid" or "basic" to another. I haven't used and had experience with E1 8.11 TR 8.95_C1...has everyone else had training and experience with this?? I think not. I also see, first hand, the stupid decisions made by company C level officials that should know better...but they still cut IT staff/training at the first hint of "we need to make the budget smaller". People are forced into situations they didn't ask for...and I call myself a E1 professional, but my "knowledge" comes from experience and the sharing of information from sources like this...I certainly haven't been getting training.
I mean, there are organizations running E1 in production, without a true CNC resource...just to save money...is that the fault of the person asking for help and opinions, or the absolutely stupid decision makers for not having the business sense to see the value of either getting proper support or paying for training?
While I realize the general experience/knowledge level on this forum is above average or higher...let's remember that we ARE a resource on the internet...if you feel that someone is not worthy of help or assistance, just don't offer.
Hopefully, we see that the 'purpose' of this forum is to exchange information, as employees, consultants, or simply fans of this ERP system from a technology perspective. I looked to this forum when I first started with OW/E1 in 1999, and have saved months/years of time with the timely and good information I could not have gotten anywhere else...I think of it as a sort of Social Security in reverse, I was helped a lot when I knew nothing, now perhaps I can help some when I've realized that I still know nothing, but at least a little more than I did before.
I know there are newbies here that are probably being thrust into handling the organization's OW/E1 system and have been told there will be no training...thing about what that must be like. I get chills just thinking about my first Fusion installation, because I know I won't have training. But think about being saddled with an ENTIRE OW/E1 system, no training, company doesn't want to pay for consulting, but says "you can wing it".
End of day...we're all in the same boat...dealing with the technology aspects of a very complex, very customizable system, trying to get answers faster than having to rely on information from a slow moving software vendor's help line, when the quality of experience here is obviously exponentially greater.
I know if I were a newbie...I'd be asking things here rather than of GSC...and the decision of my training would probably not be mine.