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Personalizing the Form Elements of Lawson Portal 10.1

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Lawson Portal 10.1 Series –  Personalizing the Form Elements of Lawson Portal 10.1

In the first article of the series we went over how to personalize the theme of your Lawson Portal. The next article in the Lawson Portal 10.1 Series overview will cover how to personalize the form elements on the page.

 

To update the form elements, such as label colors and sizes, of Lawson Portal 10.1, from the left-hand menu, go to General > User Options.

 

Next, click the Personalization Tab.

 

Under Form Customizations settings you have the options to select a label size, label style, label color, and detail area headers color. Feel free to customize to your likings or match your company’s colors.

 

Personalizing the Theme of Lawson Portal 10.1

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Lawson Portal 10.1 Series – Personalizing the Theme of Lawson Portal 10.1

Welcome to the first article of the Lawson Portal 10.1 Series. Along with this one, future posts will cover other personalizations, how to set up your bookmarks, and adding main content to your Lawson Portal screens. Let’s get started with the first topic – personalizing the theme of your Lawson Portal 10.1.

 

To change the theme (background/foreground colors) of Lawson Portal 10.1, from the left-hand menu, go to General > User Options.

 

Next, click the Personalization Tab.

 

Under Global Customizations you have the options to select a new theme (light, dark or high contrast), and a different Accent Color if desired (usually to match your company’s colors).

 

Lawson LSFIQ Security Reporting Tool Overview

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Welcome to Nogalis’s LSFIQ security reporting tool overview.

 

What is LSFIQ?

  • LSFIQ is a cloud-based Lawson security reporting tool
  • Designed with a user-friendly interface for non-technical and technical users
  • Faster and more accessible reporting without the need of VPNs or Lawson server access
  • Provides enhanced Lawson security reports that are not included in the traditional tool

 

The Dashboard is a quick overview of batch information personal to your LSFIQ account

  • A batch is generated on the Lawson LSF server via Lawson Interface Desktop tool
  • This batch is then uploaded to LSFIQ and ready for reporting

The Upload tool is where you name and select the batch files to be uploaded:

The Analyze tool is where all the reporting happens:

First you select your batch (DEMO is this example), then you can select a wide array of reports:

The Batch Overview feature is a great first step to analyze your current Lawson Security:

  • Batch Stats shows important information about your system like number of roles and groups
  • Batch Health represents potential issues with your system, including checking if the CHECK_LS flag is not set to YES (this means security is off for this user depending on the version of Lawson your organization is on).
  • All of the Batch health rows are clickable and will generate a report in a new tab.

The User Profile is also a nice feature that shows RMID info from Lawson Security:

 

You can also compare two user profiles with the compare tool:

This shows the different roles and other info each user contains that the other does not:

The All Roles query shows all your roles as you’d expect:

However, you can also click each one quickly to query down on them or simply download them all:

Tokens by Role AMINQROLE generated from above:

One of our most used reports is the All Users report:

 

All other reports show in a similar fashion and provide a wide array of versatility when reviewing user security.

If you have a user that changed security recently, but wanted to compare to an old batch, you can do that with the Compare Tool:

Since this example account only has one batch called DEMO, it can’t compare.

You can also Purge batches if needed under Manage Batches:

Need to mass change users in Security? That’s what the Export Loaduser tool is for:

This builds out XML files for the native Lawson loaduser command.

 

LSFIQ is ready to go in literally 5 minutes! Contact us today, go to our website at nogalis.com under products >> LSFIQ – Lawson Security Reporting

Linked is a recent webinar we did demoing this tool live. Thanks for visiting!

FAQ:

Q: Does LSFIQ include disabled users in it’s All User report?

A: Yes!

 

Q: Can you download reports and send to other users?

A: Yes, they download in CSV format and can easily be re-saved as excel format if needed.

 

Lawson Landmark Error – Amazon SES no longer supports TLS 1.0 and TLS1.1 connections

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If you’re experiencing Landmark Error:

“Email failed with error: 554 Access denied: Amazon SES no longer supports TLS 1.0 and TLS1.1 connections”

 

This is a known issue with TLS v 1.2 with the version of Landmark your current system is running. It’s resolved in the 11.0.49 release, reach out to your Infor representative or MSP consultant to get this updated. Here at Nogalis we also provide this MSP support if needed.

 

In the meantime, you can download the attached jar file or search KB 2221448 and then follow the steps below.

  1. Stop Landmark and Stop WAS to be thorough (LMK command window type stoplaw)
  2. Delete (or save off into a different directory) GRIDHOME\LAENVDIR\java\thirdParty\mailapi.jar
  3. Copy the javax.mail-api-1.6.2.jar you downloaded into GRIDHOME\LAENVDIR\java\thirdParty and rename it to mailapi.jar
  4. Start Landmark (LMK command window type startlaw) – Start WAS

 

Done! Hope this was helpful and resolved your TLS issues in Landmark.

 

Increasing Max Child Elements for Web Service Node

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When using a Web Service node in IPA that retrieves XML data, you may encounter the “innerElementCountThreshold” error if the XML returns too many records for IPA to handle it.  You can increase this threshold by updating the Grid properties.

Open the Landmark Grid and navigate to the Configuration Manager (gear symbol) > Grid Configuration > Grid Properties > Node Properties > Generic JVM Commands

Select the Landmark application property under “Any Host”.

Append the command -Dorg.apache.cxf.stax.maxChildElements=500000.  You can set it to more records than 500000, but be mindful of system performance.

Click Update Property, and then Save the configuration.  Reboot the server for the changes to take effect.

IPA to automatically recover or kill jobs waiting queue

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Problem:           

You need the command for an Infor Process Automation (IPA) to automatically recover or kill jobs waiting queue.

 

Resolution:     

There is a simple solution for this. You will need to first create a Process Flow that checks Jobs and Recovers and Kills them (Note that Invalid Parameters Status jobs aren’t going to recover).

Next, add the jqaction token to a security class, as it’s not defaulted.

Next, try SysCmd Nodes using the jqstatus -wr to get the Job List, and then jqaction -r to recover a job and jqaction -k to kill a Job.

Now you are able to recover or kill jobs waiting in the queue.

Updating Your Lawson License

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You need to update your license file if you exceed the maximum number of application users. All application users are also Infor Lawson Environment users.

The license and applications information is stored in the %LAWDIR%\system directory.

Note:  To update your license, you must first have received a new license file via e-mail from Infor.

Shut down the WebSphere application server. Use the instructions provided with your application server to stop the server you configured to run Infor Lawson. The person who shuts down the application server must be a member of the group for Infor.

Stop the Infor Lawson system.

At the command line, specify this information:

stoplaw

Optional. If you want to keep a copy of your existing license, make a backup copy.

Copy the license content you received in email to %LAWDIR%\system. At the prompt to overwrite the existing file, select yes.

Start the Infor Lawson system.

To start the Infor Lawson servers, at the command line, specify this information:

startlaw

Restart the application server. Use the instructions provided with your application server to start the server you configured to run Infor Lawson. The person who starts the application server must be a member of the group for Infor.

Note: The web server must be running in order for the Infor Lawson system to run, but you do not need to start it before you start the Infor Lawson system.

Edit the Install.cfg Encrypted Values

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Certain passwords in install.cfg are encrypted, and if those passwords change, you will want to update install.cfg before running patches.

To edit the file, first open a command line window with the environment set.  Then run the command

Java -cp %GENDIR%/java/thirdParty/installer.jar com.lawson.delivery.secure.PasswordAdministrator -s %LAWDIR%/system/install.cfg

First, you will be prompted to enter the password that was used to secure the Lawson system configuration.  If you don’t know this password, or if you need to change it, this is your opportunity.  Leave it blank and you will be prompted to enter a new password.  Then, you will need to rerun the command with the new password.

Once you enter the configuration passkey, you will be presented with a screen that contains all the encrypted passwords.  You can select the clear text radio button to show the passwords if desired.  Here, you can update ore view any of the passwords.

Click Finish and you’re done!