Entries by Angeli Menta

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Exporting LAUA Security Classes

You may be upgrading a client from LAUA to 901+ and will need to view their existing security classes in LAUA.  Whatever the reason, this is how you dump LAUA security. Login to your server through LID. Type LAUA >> Press Enter and you’ll be in Lawson User Security screen. Press F7 >> D (Form […]

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Installing CTPs in Lawson

Here is a quick reference to Install CTPs in Lawson. Download and save CTP to LSF Server Extract .tar (unzip) on LSF server to folder (d:\patch\CTPXXXX) Log on LID as Lawson Change directory to extracted CTP location: cd d:\patch\CTPXXXXX) Run command: perl %gendir%/bin/lawappinstall preview <PRODLINE> (make sure it completes successfully) Rename/Save Preview.log Run command: perl […]

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IP Designer Series – The Data Iterator Node

The Data Iterator node can be used to loop through records.  One way to use this node is to loop through the lines of a TXT or CSV file so that the data can be manipulated and stored somewhere else, or used in Lawson programs.  Here is an example of a process using data iterators.  […]

Infor to Acquire Birst

Infor has reached an agreement to acquire Birst, Inc, a pioneer of cloud-native business intelligence (BI). The San Francisco-based company is a unique, comprehensive platform for sourcing, refining, and presenting standardized data insights at scale for driving business decisions. The Birst business intelligence (BI) platform connects the entire enterprise through a network of virtualized BI […]

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IP Designer Series – The Trigger Node

The IP Designer Trigger Node, located under the Control Menu Group, is used to trigger another IPA process or Service.  Once you drag the node to the design screen, the processes and services list will auto-populate in the node properties.  The configuration settings are just like setting up a trigger in Rich Client or the […]

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IP Designer Series – The Wait Node

The IP Designer Wait Node, located under the Control Menu Group, inserts a specified wait time into your Process.  The wait times can be units of days, hours, minutes, or seconds.  This can be used for approval flows, if you want approval notifications to be sent after a certain number of days.  This can also […]

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Configure WebSphere profile to use a different version of Java

There may be a time where you need to update your WebSphere profile to use a later version of Java.  One indication of this would be if you are installing an app in WebSphere, and you come across the error “The major.minor version ‘51.0’ is too recent for this tool to understand.”  This means that […]

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Increase Security Employee Search Limit in Lawson Portal

While using Previous/Next on a record in Lawson portal, you may eventually stumble upon a pesky error message of: “Security search limit of X employees exceeded” (X being anywhere from 1-100+)  Commonly this could happen when restricting user access via process level, department, etc. What happens when you click next or previous while inquiring on […]

How to Apply, Stage, and Revert Application Patches (CTPs) in Lawson S3

In this brief, 1 hour webinar, we will go over the application maintenance tool set (AMT) and discuss how to find and apply patches to your Lawson application. We will also discuss how to stage multiple CTPs and back them out.  Lastly, we will go over some troubleshooting tips and how to handle issues that […]

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IP Designer Series – The System Command Node

The Return Activity node in IP Designer is useful for running command line tools within a process.  You can run anything from the System Command node that could be ran in a Unix or DOS command prompt. The first step to using a System Command Node is to configure the Sys Cmd tab in the appropriate configuration […]