Feature updates for all installations

Each startpad you create can serve a specific purpose or be adapted to a certain role in your organization. By restricting access to startpads by role, the administrator can use startpads to control user access to applications running in Infor Smart Office.

The Startpad feature is delivered as a separate installation package, which is available from the Infor Smart Office download record on Infor Support Portal.

See Working with startpads in Infor Smart Office Administration Guide.

See Using startpads in Infor Smart Office Online Help.

Infor Smart Office Startpad Installation Guide

You can use the new Mashup File Administration Tool to control user access to deployed Mashup files. You can select users or roles from the user repository to which Infor Smart Office authenticates and connect them to applications in a deployed mashup project. You can also set up mashup files to prevent any user from accessing them, or allow public access, meaning that all users can access them.

See Controlling user access to Mashup applications in Infor Smart Office Administration Guide.

SettingsTool.exe is a command line tool that exports and imports settings files, predefined widget files, and link files. These files are edited through the Settings Editor, Predefined Widgets Editor, and Link Manager in the Infor Smart Office Administration Tools.

SettingsTool.exe allows administrators to update these files without opening the Infor Smart Office client.

See Editing server files outside of the Infor Smart Office Client in the Infor Smart Office Administration Guide.

A new utility, UserFilesTool.exe, is delivered to allow administrators to manage user files without opening the Infor Smart Office client.

See Editing user roaming files outside of the Infor Smart Office Client and Migrating user files from a previous version of Infor Smart Office in Infor Smart Office Administration Guide.

You can also configure the widget to use the current Infor Smart Office credentials or Windows Authentication.

The News Reader now supports basic authentication and Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLM). You can specify a user name and password for basic authentication and these values are stored locally and encrypted on the machine so an administrator cannot configure a default super user and password.

See The News Reader Widget in Infor Smart Office Administration Guide.