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If you ever come across an instance where you need to clean up your system from old or faulty data, you can use the loadusers utility to mass-delete users, roles, or groups. The loadusers utility accepts input from an XML file that you create. You can simply populate any attributes that you want to delete.

The following is an example of an XML file from the Infor LSF Documentation guide that has been used to delete users, roles, and groups. The roles and groups in this file would only be deleted if they were not assigned to any other users than the ones being deleted.

Sample XML file

<?xml version=”1.0″ encloding=”ISO-8859-1″?<XML><ROLEDATA>    <ROLE ID=”Test1″>   <ROLE ID=”Test1″></ROLEDATA><GROUPDATA>    <GROUP ID=”Test1″>   <GROUP ID=”Test1″></GROUPDATA><USERDATA ProductLine-“APPS900″ SSOPPASSWORD=”temp”>    <USER ID=”cssttst100″/>   <USER ID=”cssttst101″/>   <USER ID=”cssttst102″/>   <USER ID=”cssttst103 RMID103″/></USERDATA><IDENTITIES></IDENTITIES></XML>

Command syntax for loadusers when used to delete users

From the command line, type

loadusers -f filename -u

where

filename = the XML file that contains the user data to be deleted

First lets login into LBI and open smart notifications:

Once open, go to Notifications Tab:

Select edit on the notification you want to modify:

Go to the Related Info >> Links >> Enter a Name and Web Address >> Add >> Save Updates:

To edit an existing related info link, simply select edit under “My Custom Urls”:

Make sure you Save Updates!

These related Info Links show up at the bottom of the report the user receives as shown below:

This type of work is typically done by a Lawson technical resource. Organizations often hire a Lawson consultant team who offer managed services at a fixed monthly rate. These Lawson teams have a wider range of expertise and knowledge and are ideal for larger organizations but also are great for smaller ones that don’t need a dedicated Lawson employee on-site. Nogalis does offer this as a service so feel free to reach out to us via our contact page.

To verify a user is set as a Ming.le user, we will use the IsMingleUser column as an example to complete the steps below:

1. Login and access the GEN data area
2. Navigate to the Actor List
3. Click Options (In the Web UI you will need to click the ellipsis first)
4. Select Personalize
   1. If this is the first personalization you will need to click create
   2. If you are updating an existing personalization you will need to click update
5. Click the + button > Add field
6. Click the Search button
7. Type ‘ism’ in the search field and hit enter
8. Select IsMingleUser from the list
9. Click OK
   1. If you wish to change the default label for the column, update the label box
10. Check the box next to Updateable
    1. Depending on your LMK version, you may need to add the field and then edit it to check the box next to “Allow data to be updated in the list”
11. Click OK

You are then returned to the actor list which will update and the IsMingleUser column will be added to the Actor List screen.

Note:

Other columns that you may want to add to assist with user provisioning include:

IsActorDisabled – make updateable

IsAckBodReq – make updateable

MingleId – make updateable

IsActorIFSDisabled

AccountLockout.IsAccountDisabled

Beginning with versions 2022.03.00..632 (MT) and 11.0.51.0.6489 (ST/OP) the following fields have been added as updateable to the default Actor List:

IsMingleUser

IsActorDisabled

IsActorIFSDisabled

IsAckBodReq

MingleId

Some Lawson Security systems are setup with a form of the user ID being a combination of the last name with middle initials / first name initials.

Something like DoeJ for John Doe. Often users get their names updated due to a marriage or divorce and their user ID never gets updated along with their last name.

1. To find the user by employee number, we need to first go to HR11 and find the user by their new last name to uncover their Employee ID.
2. For this example, let’s say we search John Doe and it returns an employee ID of 264
3. Now open Lawson Security Administrator and go to User Management >> Manage Identities
   
4. Once in Manage Identities under “Services”, select the employee identity service, ours is named TEST10_EMPLOYEE:
   
5. Select employee = <employee ID> and click Add Criteria
   
6. Once the criteria is added, Execute Query
   
7. You’ll be put to the results tab and if that user exists in Lawson security, it will show as so:
   

This type of work is typically done by a Lawson technical resource with a Security Administrator background. Organizations often hire a Lawson consultant team who offer managed services at a fixed monthly rate. These Lawson teams have a wider range of expertise and knowledge and are ideal for larger organizations but also are great for smaller ones that don’t need a dedicated Lawson employee on-site. Nogalis does offer this as a service so feel free to reach out to us via our contact page.