About roaming profiles

Roaming profiles means that the user’s profile and settings are available for the user regardless of which machine is used to log on to Infor Smart Office. The user's settings are stored locally on disk and in the GDBC database on the Infor Smart Office server. When the user logs in, the timestamp on the local files are compared with the files on the Infor Smart Office server. If the files on the server are newer, the server files are downloaded to the local file area. When Infor Smart Office closes, changed files are uploaded to Infor Smart Office.

Note: There is an additional performance cost of running roaming profiles both when it comes to start-up delays and network utilization.

These features support roaming:

  • Canvas. Users will get their own canvas regardless of the machine used to access Infor Smart Office.

  • Favorites and recent favorites list.

  • User settings, Infor Smart Office Settings and all other application settings.

These do not support roaming:

  • Textbox history (used for example in MForms to suggest an input value for a field from previous inputs).

  • Last used server

  • Last logged in user

  • Quick note data

  • Navigator history, recent

  • Infor Smart Office language

  • Application Window size and state information

  • M3 Menu

  • BusinessFeed data (only cache for better performance), no data lost.

  • M3 MForms features including

    • Big/Small panel navigator

    • Customization disabled (if the user is allowed to use customization, he/she can turn it off)

    • Some Gantt settings

    • Toolbox area settings

    • Favorites (Textbox history)

Roaming profiles are enabled/disabled in the Mango Core settings of the Settings Editor. The Enable Roaming Profiles settings can be enabled or disabled. The default setting is Enabled. See Mango Core.

Sometimes an administrator needs to delete, download or update roamed files for a user without opening the Infor Smart Office client. Starting with Infor Smart Office 10.0.5.0, the UserFilesTool.exe utility is available to perform this task. See Editing user roaming files outside of the Infor Smart Office Client.