Resolving the “Operator Not Authorized to Change Unit Cost” error

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This is one of those Lawson errors that could waste a morning of work looking through the Infor knowledge base, analyzing/changing security, and or reviewing logs.   So, you’re on PO20.1 and want to make a change to a PO entry and…

Limiting Access to External EMSS

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Many of our clients would like to lock down their external websites to EMSS (Employee and Manager Self-Service) only, because it is a security risk to allow super users to access Human Resources (HR) & Financials from the web.  The official…

Weekly Patch Notification: July 26, 2025

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Lawson Expense Management XM User Profile Getting Overwritten

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Problem: An XM User Profile is getting overwritten.   Login to XM and view the user profile in XM (Admin rights required): Locate and view your user: View the Administration Log and figure out who or what process might…

Lawson Expense Management – Re-Routing an Expense Report in XM App

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Problem: An Expense Report needs to be re-routed immediately for someone else to approve ASAP. Follow these steps to quickly solve this issue.   Solution: 1. First, log in to Mingle and Open the Infor XM App under the Applications…

Weekly Patch Notification: July 19, 2025

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Resolving the Error “Program Does Not Allow INVOKE”

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If you are compiling a form that generates an error “Program X Does Not Allow INVOKE”, that means that the invoked program needs to be set to allow invoke.  To do that, from a LID session, go to the form in pgmdef (pgmdef <prodline>…

ujobload fails in lawappinstall activate

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During patch install, if customizations exist, the activate will fail on ujobload lawappinstall ACTIVATE installation started at 11/14/2024 15:48:00 for the following deliverables: PATCH121887.57 PATCH121211.58 PATCH126341.59. command line…

Weekly Patch Notification: July 12, 2025

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How to Analyze a Cloud-based Log Quickly in Lawson

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In a Lawson Cloud environment, its difficult to get logs off the server since now you’re likely restricted to FTP access and the latest logs are currently being written to by the server itself, thus throwing a deny exception when trying to…