Configuration Files tab

On the Configuration Files tab you can find these sections:

  • Font for reporting
    With the reporting feature you can create PDF reports with the history of user actions for tasks and alerts. A prerequisite for this feature is to upload the font Arial Unicode MS to the ION Server. This font is licensed.

    You can purchase the font from Microsoft, see http://www.microsoft.com.

    In ION Desk, click the Configuration > ION Service > Configuration Files tab.

    In the Font for reporting section, click Upload Filethen to upload the font file. If the file was already uploaded, then it is overwritten.

    The font Arial Unicode MS is supported to guarantee that multibyte characters are displayed correctly. There is no validation that the file is the correct font. If the font is missing, then an error message is displayed when you try to generate a report.

    You can also use the open source “Kurinto” fonts. The Kurinto fonts work with the PDF reports generated by ION. The fonts are not redistributed with ION. The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License Version 1.1. You are responsible to download and use on your own accord subject to the open source license conditions of Kurinto fonts.

    For instructions on how to package these fonts for use within ION see Import Kurinto Fonts into ION.

  • Certificate Store
    When secured external URLs are contacted from ION, for example, from the web service connection point or from an Infor Cloud connection point. The public key is automatically retrieved by ION to connect to the service when you load the WSDL. The certificate is verified if it is trusted in ION.

    If the certificate is already trusted by a CA, such as Verisign, then access to the URL is allowed by ION. If the certificate is self-signed or is not trusted, then ION alerts the user from where the trigger to contact the external URL was made. This can be when clicking Test in an Infor Cloud connection point or clicking Load WSDL of the web service connection point.

    To check the authenticity of the certificate you can choose to trust the certificate or the issuer or both. Accordingly you can choose whether to download the certificate of the server you are calling or the issuer.

    Note that the only SSL server certificates which are supported by ION are X.509.v3 certificates.

    After you downloaded the certificate, inspected it and are satisfied with the authenticity of the certificate you can import it into ION's trust store:

    • Click the Import Certificate
    • A window is displayed. Browse to the location of your certificate and select it.
    • Click Open.
    • The certificate is now imported into ION and you can continue working with the external URL
  • Custom database drivers / Custom JMS Client libraries

    If you are using the Infor application connection point with a database vendor that is not supported. You can upload the JDBC driver of your vendor into ION. Use a bundle wrapper program from the "Custom database drivers" section.

    Using the Message queue connection point as a client and wanting to connect to a JMS vendor is not supported. You require a different bundle wrapper program. Download this program from the "Custom JMS Libraries" section.

    This bundle wrapper program generates the deployment bundle of your dynamic JDBC driver/ JMS client library. After a bundle is generated you can upload it to the ION Service using the Upload button. You can also remove an existing bundle when it is not used by any connection point. Note that when you remove an existing bundle, the ION Service is restarted. This results in a temporary outage of ION until the service is started again.

    See the Infor ION Development Guide. on how to use the Wrapper program.

  • E-mail Templates
    The ION Pulse engine can send email notifications for tasks, alerts and notifications. ION Pulse engine uses a pre-defined set of templates for these e-mails.

    You can customize these templates.

    See Customizing the layout for email notifications.

  • Download Scripts
    If you are connecting to ION using the Infor Application connection point, you must create in-box and outbox tables in your database. To download the scripts to generate the I/O box:
    • Click Download Scripts to create I/O box.
    • Download a zip file to a folder of your choice.
    • Extract the zip file to a folder of your choice.
    • This zip file contains two folders namely 1.0 and 3.0. The folder 1.0 contains the scripts to create a base I/O box for the standard db vendors that ION is tested with. This includes: MS SQL server, Oracle, DB2, DB2400 and MySQL.

      The folder 3.0 contains the scripts required to prepare your I/O box to support multiple logical IDs sharing the same I/O box

    • For Unicode compatible BOD header fields, you can use the scripts available in the Unicode folder.