About this guide

This guide shows you how to use the administrative and user functions of Infor Fashion PLM (IFPLM) Connector Toolbox and how to complete specific setup and maintenance tasks.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for system administrators who are responsible for setting up, configuring, and implementing the integration between the Infor Fashion PLM application and external systems.

Prerequisite knowledge

To fully understand the information presented in this guide, you must have knowledge and experience in system configuration and administration of these applications:

  • Infor Fashion PLM
  • Infor ION
  • M3 Business Engine

Organization

This table describes the sections of this guide:

Section Description
Overview

This section describes what you need to know about the application and its common features. It also describes the architecture and setup of the integration.

Configuring the application

This section explains the configuration steps that must be done after installation to start using the application.

Integration Designer overview

This section describes what you need to know about the integration tasks, integration task templates, and integration flows. It also describes available integration templates in the application.

Designing integration flows

This section explains how to use Manage Templates and Flow Designer to manage integration tasks and integration flows.

Setting up work units

This section describes how to execute integration flows between Infor Fashion PLM and external systems by setting up workers and defining conditions and schedule settings.

Migrating data

This section describes what you need to know about the data migration feature of Connector Toolbox. It also explains the necessary procedures to migrate data from an SQL or OLE DB-compliant database to the Infor Fashion PLM database.

Field mappings for M3 Business Engine

This section lists supported fields exported to M3 BE and imported fields from M3 BE to Infor Fashion PLM.