Documentation: FAQ

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• 1 Troubleshooting certificates
• 2 Troubleshooting EDI-Connector
• 3 Requirements WebEDI
• 4 Internet Explorer

1 Troubleshooting certificates

Invalid certificate

If you see a warning when you log in to the myOpenFactory platform, which calls for a valid certificate, then there may be several reasons.

Certificates are stored in the certificate store of your Windows operating system and there the well-known browsers ‘Edge’ and ‘Google Chrome’ access the certificates. The only exception is the Firefox browser, which cannot access this certificate store. For this reason, the certificate must be imported directly into Firefox.

Therefore, you should first check the following:

You can simply verify that the certificate exists in your certificate store or exists but has expired or another old myOpenFactory-certificate exists (which in rare cases can also cause problems):

Edge

Open the Edge browser. Using the 3-dot icon in the upper right corner, select the gear icon for the settings.

Now select the “Privacy, search, and services” tab and then click on the link icon in the “Manage certificates” section on the right under the “Security” heading.

In this window, select the “Own certificates” tab if it is not open directly.

Here you can see if a certificate of the myOpenFactory is stored and in the column “Expiration date” you can check the same.

Note: Instead of “myOpenFactory.com”, your domain name is usually displayed in this window/certificate. E.g. “mustermann.de” for the company Mustermann GmbH.

Firefox

In Firefox, you control this via the “Hamburger menu (the 3 horizontal strokes in the top right corner) / Settings / Privacy & Security / Certificates / View Certificates / Your Certificates. A more comprehensive guide can be found in our manual under Mozilla Firefox.

Solution

1. If your certificate has expired, we will be happy to send you a new one, the duration of our certificates is always 2 years.
2. If you also discover an expired myOpenFactory certificate, please delete it, as Windows may choose the wrong one.

Edge certificate problem

Since the beginning of September 2021, the Edge browser no longer preselects certificates. This means that every time you open the myOpenFactory portal, you have to click the certificate before you can click OK.

If you still receive an error message

If this check reveals that there is only one valid certificate and you still receive the error message when you log on, it is not up to the certificate itself. Presumably, the error is due to another software on your PC that prevents the certificate from being transmitted to us. Usually, these are antivirus programs.

In all likelihood, you had an update/upgrade or a change of the antivirus-software on your PC. Often the higher and paid expansion levels of these programs (these are called Security Suite, Internet Security or similar) have a protection function that builds up a so-called proxy. This prevents the sending of our certificate key during the logon process. Sometimes you have the option to share a URL in these programs. Then please enter our URL “myopenfactory.net” there. Sometimes you can import the certificate directly in the antivirus-software. If this is not possible, please contact the Manufacturer of your antivirus software.

For short-term control of whether it’s really down to your antivirus software, you can temporarily turn it off. As a rule, there is such an option in the settings of these programs. Please check now whether the registration on our platform works.

2 Troubleshooting EDI-Connector

1. Restarting the EDI-Connector

If the EDI-Connector does not work properly, restarting the service can help.

First you have to find the EDI-Connector in the Windows-Services. To do this, switch to the Windows “Services” (press windows key and search for “Services”.)

Now locate the EDI-Connector with the name “myof-client” (the naming after “myof-client” may slightly depending on the user.)
Afterwards please start the EDI-Connector via the context menu (right-click).

2. Error analysis of the EDI-Connector

If restarting the EDI-Connector does not solve the problem, you can search the log files. They are usually located in the installation directory of the EDI-Connector under “ProgramData”.

Here you open the most recent log file and search for the keyword “Error”.

If the error message is not meaningful enough or there is no error message, please contact our support - support@myopenfactory.com
In any case, please send the log files of the last 3 days and we will take care of the problem immediately.

For further information please refer to our myOpenFactory-EDI-Connector manual.

3 Requirements WebEDI

Introduction WebEDI

WebEDI is a convenient solution for integrating certain suppliers into your own EDI process. In particular, suppliers who either do not use an EDI-capable ERP system or for whom an ERP connection is not worthwhile due to the small number of documents.

Setup WebEDI

Once the WebEDI account has been set up on our platform, the supplier is sent their access data and the myOpenFactory certificate. Once the login has been set up, the supplier can immediately receive and respond to orders. Suppliers are informed by e-mail that their customer has sent an order. A link in this e-mail leads to our portal and the document opens. Now the order can be “answered” with an order confirmation and the customer receives this in the same EDI way as all other order confirmations from their ERP suppliers.

Expenses on the supplier side

This process has one disadvantage for the WebEDI supplier, as they usually have to enter the sent order-confirmations (also shipping notifications and invoices) in their order management system, which means additional work.
In order to increase the acceptance of WebEDI, it is advantageous if the customer can offer this solution to his supplier free of charge.

Sponsoring solution

For this reason, we have developed the “sponsored WebEDI supplier” price model. Here we provide the customer with this function for just 5 euros per month per supplier. This sum only covers the operation of the WebEDI on our platform and naturally does not include any 1st level support services, with the exception of technical support, i.e. 2nd level support.

This means that the customer appoints a key user who familiarizes themselves with the topic and is thus available as a contact person for all 1st level queries from their WebEDI suppliers. We offer an online training course for this purpose, for which we charge 250 euros. Assistance is also provided in the form of our online manual and the FAQ page.

This key user is then the first point of contact for all questions from their WebEDI suppliers, e.g. creating a new user, questions about logging in, problems importing the myOpenFactory certificate, general questions, etc. (1st level). Only if the key user cannot find an answer, or if it is a technical problem (2nd level), does the key user pass the case on to our myOpenFactory support team.

Notice This condition is also defined in our user-contract in § 3.11.

4 Internet Explorer

Please note that we will end support for Internet Explorer by August 31, 2022. It is therefore urgently necessary to switch to an alternative browser.

Background

Microsoft has gradually removed the support for Internet Explorer 11 from its own websites since 2020 and plans to remove the browser in 2022 completely out of Windows. Therefore, we have decided to end the support for the browser as well.

Transition

The transition to an alternative browser is possible without getting in touch with us. We continue to support the following browsers (in their current version):

• Edge
• Chrome
• Firefox

Notice Please note that depending on the browser, the certificate management is different. Corresponding information can be found in our manual in the item Certificate.

Additional information

For more information, we refer to the announcements of Microsoft regarding Internet Explorer 11:

• Microsoft 365 apps and services to end support for IE 11; End of support coming to the legacy version of Microsoft Edge: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/m365-ie11-microsoft-edge-legacy
• The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/