Configuring Site Parameters(LN)

Open the Site Parameters form.

Specify this information:

Site: Specify the appropriate site. The site name and description are displayed. If you need to create a new site, open the Sites form.
ERP Type: Select Infor LN as the ERP Type.
Default Menu Group: Determines which menus the users must view by default.
Encoding: Specify which encoding type to use in XML file statements when connecting to the ERP.

To generate form component views, click Generate Strings View, Generate Component View, Generate Menus View, and Generate Images View.

On the Calendar Setup tab, select a start date for the site calendar and specify a tracking year.

Click Site Holidays to edit holidays.
Click Site Calendar to view a 12 month array of the site calendar.
Configure Work Week Start Day. Specify this information:
1st Day of Work Week

Set the day of the week that must be considered as the first day of the work week. By default, this value is set to Monday.
Note: For Daily Elapsed Employees and Clocked hours employees, this day is considered as the start day of the work week for the selection criteria on the Hours Summary and Daily Elapsed Summary forms. This day is also considered for Weekly Elapsed employees' hours processing. Weekly Elapsed employees must be assigned to Payroll Schedules that have period start dates that correspond with the Site’s 1st Day of the Work Week setting.

Work Week Effective Date

Specify the date from which the change in the first day of the work week, is effective. All the weekly selection criteria for report dates equal to and after this date use the corresponding 1st Day of Work Week to display the records. Queries on report dates, prior to the Work Week Effective Date use the 1st Day of Work Week corresponding to the effective date, for the display of records. If there is no Work Week Effective date that corresponds to the report dates in the query, the default 1st Day of the Work Week is considered for the display of records.
Note: For Weekly Elapsed Employees in addition to use in selection queries, this parameter is considered as the work week start date for the selection criteria on the Hours Summary and Weekly Elapsed Summary forms

Generate work week
Click Generate work week to modify the 1st Day of Work Week setting. If a Work Week Effective Date is specified, report dates prior to the effective date use the default 1st Day of Work Week or the 1st day that corresponds to the 1st day defined for the period, prior to this change.
Note:

For Weekly Elapsed Employees, effective dates should be set to the current calendar date or to a future date.

Elapsed Detail records for weekly employees on report dates prior to the effective date of the work week change or that have create dates that are prior to the work week change, create date cannot be reset. The Generate Work Week utility resets records to the new Work Week Start for Weekly Elapsed Time employees with Elapsed Detail records for future dates (ie, planned absences or holiday abs records).

Contact Infor Support to review your data structure prior to generating a new work week start day.

On the LN Communication tab, specify this information:

Web Service URL

Specify the Web service URL for your company. You can find this URL on the Connector for Web Services page. On the Connector for Web Services Page, click Web Services Status and open the first available WSDL file associated with your company. You can copy the WSDL URL from the WSDL file and paste it into this field.

Web Service Suffix

Specify the Web service suffix that corresponds to your company. This suffix will be used for any Web services that do not have a suffix defined on the Web Service Connectors form.

Seconds Before Timeout

The waiting time mentioned in seconds before Factory Track frontend session stops the integration request sent to Infor LN.

Encoding

The programmed message string exchanged between Factory Track and Infor LN. The default value is set to UTF-8.

Authentication Method

The field is used to select the authentication method to integrate Infor LN with Connector for Web Services (C4WS). The customer can set the value to:

a. Regular: This is defaulted in the field.

b. Oauth1.0 authentication: If OAuth1.0a is selected, consumer key and secret key must be provided.

Based on the type of authentication method, the form displays different fields for integrating Factory Track to a Multi-Tenant LN environment. This section explains the authentication process:

If this field is set to Regular, these optional fields are displayed:

1. Company Number

2. LN User

3. Password

Note:

By default, Authentication Method displays Regular.
If the optional fields are specified, Infor LN uses the company number/username/password provided in the Site Parameters form.
If optional fields are not specified, Infor LN uses the values setup in the ERP Server pages of C4WS.

If this field is set to OAuth 1.0a, these fields are also displayed (apart from the optional fields):

1. Consumer key: The Consumer key as specified in the C4WS settings of the Advanced Settings Page is provided here.

2. Secret Key: The Secret key from the C4WS settings of the Advanced Settings Page is provided here.

Select Record Queries in Tran History check box to store LN Database Query Inputs and Responses in the Transaction History table. This check box supports the Query Logging feature. Based on this field, the queries that are run as part of FT processes can be utilized by the support team to know the update calls performed on LN. The Current Transaction Workbench form is updated to enable the operator to view the captured queries and the related information from LN.

Click on the LN CommunicationTest Connection tab to verify the connection to the ERP server.

On the TestTime track tab, specify this information:

Payroll Code

Optionally, specify a payroll code. Payroll codes identify each record as originating from a particular site.

ERP Code

Specify an ERP code. Typically, a site code for Infor Factory Track is specified in the underlying ERP software. The ERP code specified on the Site Parameters form must match the Infor Factory Track site code specified in the ERP.

ERP Shift

Specify an ERP shift code. The code specifies a Working Time Table (WTT), which is a generic 24/7 calendar specified in the ERP system.

Allow Offset Posting

Select this check box to automatically zero out frozen posts by posting an offsetting negative value; for example, a frozen post of 4 hours will be offset by a post of -4 hours. Clear this check box to display an ERP error in response to frozen posts.

Allow Repost

Select this check box to allow edited transactions to repost to the ERP system. Clear this check box to display an ERP error in response to reposted transactions.

Use Global Posting

Select this check box to specify how to prevent posting of records sharing a specific employee number and report date combination when one or more records contains an error. For example, an employee posts a group of four records in which the third record contains an error. Select Use Global Posting to block posting of all four records. Clear this check box to post records 1, 2, and 4, and to block only record 3.

Post Start End Times to ERP

Select this check box to report shift start and end times to ERP even when those times occur on separate days. Clear this field to always report shift start and end times on the same day in accordance with the configuration settings of the shift.

Allow Revert Processed Payroll

Select this checkbox to allow users to revert payroll from Processed to Submitted.

Note:

If the checkbox is selected and the user has the work group privilege Revert Payroll set to Yes, users can use the revert icon on the Payroll Summary and Payroll Detail forms to revert payroll from Processed to Submitted. When the user’s work group privilege Revert Payroll is set to No the revert icon is set to active but if the user invokes it they will be hard stopped with a message advising the user is not authorized to revert payroll.
If the checkbox is cleared, the revert Icon for both the Payroll Summary and Payroll Detail forms is deactivated. The feature is turned off for all users regardless of the Work Group privilege setting.

Allow Attendance Transactions On Future Date

If this check box is selected, future transaction dates and times can be used when entering attendance or labor transactions. If the check box is cleared, only current or past transaction dates and times can be used.

Note: The parameter does not restrict entry of planned absences or future absence requests.

On the Colors tab, click Colors to select a color format to denote holidays. Specify a foreground (text) color and a background color and view the result in the Sample field. When finished, click Save and Exit.