Importing and exporting Lawson personalizations

The Lawson Import/Export Manager tool can be used by Infor Smart Office administrators to export personalizations (customizations) stored on the Lawson application server. Once exported, the files can be imported to another server.

Many personalization files are associated with a data area, and often the data area on the target server will be named differently than the Data Area on the source server. Given this, a dialog box for mapping the names and specifying which data areas to process is also provided.

This table shows the types of personalization files that can be exported through the Import/Export Manager.

File type Description
Role files The role settings that have been defined in the Role Manager
Variables files The variables defined on the Global Variables screen as well as role and user variables, if any.
Form personalizations All global, role and user defined form customizations
List personalizations User customizations of list driven forms
InfoBrowser files Global and user defined data views used by the InfoBrowser widget
Script files Scripts attached to form personalizations
Custom hotkeys Role and user defined hotkeys
Drill select personalizations User defined customizations for Drill Select windows
  1. From the Navigator, access Infor Lawson > Lawson Administration > Lawson Import/Export Manager.
  2. Click Set Target Data Areas.
  3. On the Set Target Data Areas window, change the source data area name to the target data area name.

    If you want to exclude a data area from being exported, clear the check box of the source data area.

  4. Click OK.
  5. On the Export panel, select the personalization files you want to export to another server.
  6. Click Export.
  7. Specify a filename for the zip package.
  8. On the Import panel, browse the zip package containing the exported personalization files.
  9. Click Import.
  10. Click Close.