Administration changes
New user role allows administrators to restrict access to Lawson Smart Office
Description |
All Lawson Smart Office users must belong to the Grid application role Users. Grid application roles are managed in the Grid Configuration Manager ( ). |
Impact |
The Lawson Smart Office install program will automatically add the grid role authenticated to the Users role. Alll authenticated users can use Lawson Smart Office. A user who does not have the correct role assignment will see a message indicating that they are not authorized to start the application. If you are upgrading from Lawson Smart Office 9.1.3.x to 10.0.0, the "authenticated" group will also be added to the Users role. |
Related documentation | Lawson Grid Administration Guide |
S3 Role Manager changes
Description |
User roles can have the ability to (or restricted from) making
these changes in the Settings:
Other new settings, which are not controlled through a role, are also available to users in Version 10. See “User settings updates” in this document for details. |
Related documentation |
Information about the settings is in Lawson Smart Office help for end-users. How to update roles to accommodate these settings is in Lawson Smart Office Administration Guide. |
M3 Net Extensions Manager now available in Lawson Smart Office
Description |
The Net Extensions Manager tool (formerly available in M3 Workplace) is now included in the Administration tools for Lawson Smart Office. |
Impact |
Administrators can use this tool to view server sessions and BE program statistics, manage language, program metadata caching, session timeout, and cleanup parameters. |
Related documentation | Lawson Smart Office Administration Guide |
New trusted servers setting in Mango Core
Description |
You can now add a list of trust web services servers to the Mango Core settings. This feature is used by mashup data services. |
Impact |
If a server is in the trusted servers list, the mashup user is not presented with a dialog asking to trust the server. If a mashup utilizes data services and the data service requires the current credentials, the user is challenged to indicate if the server can be trusted with the credentials. |
Related documentation |
See Mango Core in Lawson Smart Office Administration Guide. |
S3 Infor Browser export to predefined widget formation option removed
Description |
The option to export S3 Info Browser widgets to a format from which to create predefined widgets has been removed. Administrators have a new menu option on existing Info Browsers to publish as a predefined widget using the Widgets Editor available in the framework. Predefined widgets created in previous releases should have the CustomId property removed. On the Lawson Smart Office server in /SettingsFiles/WidgetSettingsDefinitions.xml, remove the property CustomId from any widgets. |
Impact |
For any predefined widgets from existing widgets created in previous releases, the system administrator should remove the CustomID property. |
Related documentation |
See The S3 Info Browser Widget (S3 only) in Lawson Smart Office Administration Guide. |