Find the name of the Form and the Business Class that you want to add the field to (Ctrl-Shift-Click on any field on the form)

Log into Rich Client and go to Start > Configure > Application (make sure that you have been granted access to Configuration Console)

Find your Business Class, and click “User Fields” under the class

Click the “blank paper” icon to add a new user field

Give your user field a meaningful name (no numbers or special characters allowed, and the field name must begin with an upper-case letter)

Next, go to configured forms and find the form name that you noted earlier

If this form has never been customized, you may need to click the blank paper icon to add it to the Configured Forms list

Once the form has been added as a configured form, click on the form name, then click “Configure”

Navigate to the location where you want to add the user field

Click the blank paper and select “User Field”

Configure the user field for the form

Click “Save” and verify that the user field is now on your screen

This is a PFX cert.

Start – This is being done on a Lawson LSF server.

  1. Drag the folder with the Cert onto the server you want to apply it to.
    1. Once you do that, make sure you check whether or not the server is running IIS. Typically by searching for IIS Manager or checking services.
  2. Double click the cert file that you dragged onto the server.
  3. Select Local machine:
  4. Specify the file you want to import (should default on the cert you just clicked to run) >> Next
  5. Enter the password for the cert and click next.
  6. Open command prompt as admin and type: start certlm.msc
  7. Under Personal >> Certificates, you should see the new cert you imported: The old one is below the one highlighted in red.
  8. Now go to IIS Manager, Sites >> select WebsiteName and then on right pane select bindings as shown below
  9. Select https binding and edit
  10. Select new cert and click ok
  11. Back in command prompt type: iisreset /restart
  12. Test and you’re done

When applying to Landmark server, we need to run the following commands below (Important to stop and start exactly as shown):

For Mingle in ISS Manager, we need to select the Sharepoint secure site and select bindings.

  • First, check the criteria of the report list
  • Go to the Tools tab and select “Reporting Services My Reports”
  • Click on your list name
  • Make note of the filter
  • Some filters use attributes to create lists. If your filter uses an attribute, you would want to add that attribute to your report.
  • The list in this example “hard-codes” report id values, so you need to edit the list rather than the report
  • Get the ID of your report
  • Go back to My Reports and find your report
  • If you don’t see your report listed, try clicking the “All” button at the top to display reports for all users
  • Navigate to your report in the list and click “Details”
  • Make note of the ID
  • Go back to your list and click “Edit List” at the top of the screen
  • Click Filters
  • Add the text “Or (Report Id = ‘<your id>’)
  • Click ‘Append’

Here is an example of how to update attributes for a list that works on attributes:

  • Follow the steps above to find your list name and get the criteria for your list
  • Go to the report that you want to show up in that list
  • Click Details
  • Click Attributes
  • Click Add
  • Select the attribute(s) that are used in the list filter
  • Select the filter value

There has been a lot of confusion in the Infor client community lately over what ADFS is and what the impact of implementing it will be on the organization as a whole.
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is a Microsoft solution created to facilitate Single Sign-On. It provides user with authenticated access to applications like Lawson without the need to provide the password information to the application.
ADFS manages user authentication through a service hosted between the active directory and the target application. It grants access to application users by using Federated trust. The users can then authenticate their identity through Single Sign-On without having to do so on the application itself. The authentication process is usually as follows:
1) The user navigates to the Lawson URL
2) The unauthenticated user is re-directed to the ADFS service
3) The user signs into ADFS
4) ADFS service authenticates the user via the Active Directory
5) The user is then given an authentication claim (in the form of a cookie) by the ADFS
6) The user is forwarded to the Lawson application with the claim which either grants or denies access based on the federated trust service
Note: The Lawson Server never sees the password information which in the case of external applications (like a cloud implementation) is a lot more secure.
 
What are some drawbacks of implementing ADFS?
 
Although ADFS is a new requirement, it comes with a few small drawbacks that you should consider:
– The additional server license and maintenance – You will need an additional server (likely one per environment) to host ADFS
– ADFS is actually somewhat complex and this new skill set can create a new challenge for smaller clients who aren’t already using ADFS for other applications
– A standard ADFS installation is not all that secure and several steps should be taken to ensure good security. Microsoft provides these best practices recommendations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/deployment/best-practices-securing-ad-fs
There is also a great free e-book published by Microsoft about claims-based identity and access control: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/ff423674(v=pandp.10)
To find out more about ADFS and how it can impact your organization, join our webinars or contact us.

When using IPDesigner to create a .csv file, we ran into four issues with the file output:

  1. Problem: Certain dates appear as ######## and certain numbers convert to scientific notation.
    Solution: Select entire page (ctrl + a) and click Home tab -> Format -> AutoFit Column Width

  2. Problem: Some numbers remain in scientific notation (ex: 1E+12) even after AutoFit Column Width
    Solution: In the FileAccess node, wrap the SQL query variable with quotation marks and put a “=” before it.
    (For example, <!SQLQuery2650_USER_FIELD1> would become =“<!SQLQuery2650_USER_FIELD1>”)


  3. Problem: Strings with commas get split at the comma in a csv file.
    Example in file: The value “Anchin, Block, & Anchin” is getting split into 3 columns as the flow is interpreting the commas as separators.

    Solution: In the FileAccess node, wrap the SQL query variable with quotation marks to include the commas as part of the string.

  4. Problem: Certain number values lose their zeroes at the front when written to csv format.
    Example in file: The values in column C should be 001, 002, etc. instead of 1,2.

    Solution: In the FileAccess node, wrap the SQL query variable with quotation marks and put a “=” before it.
    (For example, <!SQLQuery2650_USER_FIELD3> would become =“<!SQLQuery2650_USER_FIELD3>”)


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Pre-requisites

Download Fix Packs

NOTE: You will need your passport advantage credentials

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27004980#ver85_0

Application Server Fix Pack

Customization Toolbox Fix Pack

WAS Supplements fix pack

Unzip WAS parts 1 & 2 into one directory

Unzip WCT parts 1 & 2 into one directory

Unzip WAS Supp parts 1 & 2 into one directory

Install Fix Pack

Stop WebSphere Services

Open IBM Installation Manager as administrator

Set the repository in File > Preferences (select the location where you saved the fix pack files)

Click ok

Click update

Select all, click next

Accept the license agreements

Click update

Click Finish

Start WebSphere services

Propagate Plug-Ins

WebSphere Console > Servers > Server Types > Web servers

Select web server

Generate Plug-in

Propagate Plug-in

Restart Application Server

Most of customers have by now switched over to a Windows / SQL server environment, but we still have several customers who have stayed on Oracle for their Database needs. This mostly stems from having the Oracle skill set in-house as there is really no other advantage to staying on Oracle once you have moved over to Windows.

Often when there are troubles with connecting to the application, it is relevant to test the connection the database from the server itself. Of course there are several ways to do this, but test fastest way is to do so directly from the command prompt in LID as it doesn’t require any additional setup or software. But it is easy to forget how this is done so we decided to write this quick article to document this very simple syntax.
The utility we’re going to use is called sqlplus and it should already installed on your LSF application server. Simply login to the server using LID and on the command prompt type in the following command:
sqlplus <username>/<password>@dbserverName
If you have the correct username and password, and the server is responding, you will get a SQL> prompt on which you can run any query you want. Here’s an example:
However if you type in the incorrect username:
And finally, if you have the incorrect server name or the server is not responding, the prompt will be suspended for several seconds and you will see the following message:
A few small notes about using sqlplus:
  • Be sure to use a semicolon to end your statements. Otherwise the application doesn’t know when to run your query.
  • Make sure the environment variable %ORACLE_HOME% is set correctly. ($ORACLE_HOME on Unix):
  • To exit sqlplus user the “quit” command
  • The SQL buffer contains the last statement you ran, and you can run the previous query again by simply typing “RUN”  and hitting enter.
  • User the LIST command to see a list of your most recently executed SQL commands.
  • “HELP INDEX” shows a list of possible commands
  • To launch a sql script simply put the “@” symbol in front of the file name and execute it. like: @script.sql or even @/path/to/script.sql
  • You can have a multi-line sql statement.
  • The “SHOW USER” command prints the name of the Oracle user you’re logged in as
  • The “SHOW ALL” command prints all the current settings to the screen.

We had trouble with the Infor Lawson Query Wizard either timing out or returning a “No Data Found” message when loading in a .dme query.

This is a compiled list of troubleshooting suggestions for the Query Wizard found on Nogalis presentations/Infor documentation/Lawsonguru forums.

1. Limitations of the Query Wizard

  1. “No Data Found” Message

  1. Try increasing Data Response Timeout value to 9999 (min 30 max 9999) in Set User Preferences (green/yellow arrows)

If this fails, try experimenting with the different options for When encountering error messages

  1. On the Criteria tab, try changing Maximum Primary Records to Return to 0 (default 600, max 65520, 0 defaults to max 65520) and Maximum OTM Values to Return (max 600) fields

  1. Troubleshooting tips from Nogalis LawsonMSAddins PowerPoint

WHER ARE MY COMMENTS?!  Many Lawson screens have comment buttons that open a drill-around screen with different comment types.  If you have ever wished to query these comments for reporting or other user interfaces, you may have noticed that they are difficult to find.  Infor has “hidden” them in tables with the “L_H” prefix.  The naming convention is “L_HXXX” where “XXX” is the prefix of the table that feeds screen where you add the comments.  For instance, Requisition Header comments can be found in “L_HRQH”.  And APINVOICE comments can be found in “L_HAPI”.  Join the comments to your main record using the “L_INDEX” column.

I hope this tidbit has saved you some time!!

Sometimes the install wizard for MSCM installs and updates doesn’t work quite the way you would hope.  In many cases, I have found that I needed to uninstall MSCM, run through the wizard without actually installing, and run the scripts manually so I can trap and fix errors.

All of these scripts are located at the MSCM install directory, in the cofig folder.

Here are the scripts that you would run in order to uninstall your current version of MSCM:

  1. uninstallmscm
  2. undeploymscm

If you are trying to install a new version, run the wizards to unpack the installer and generate the configuration files.  Then, run the install scripts in the following order:

  1. webspheregraft
  2. deploy
  3. installschedulertableprefix
  4. installmscm
  5. deploywithdb

Follow the instructions with each script, because in some cases, you will need to stop the application server and in some cases you will need to start it.