Feature updates for Lawson applications

General enhancements


Description	These enhancements are available for Lawson applications: New central cache and Role/User caching options which offers potential to preserve memory consumption. Converted help from using Companion to Infocenter. This change requires a new profile application group for S3. Client in the Profile Editor, which includes the Infocenter URL and optional parameter language. New Role settings added to control access to items in the Lawson Other branch of the Navigator. The Personalization Manager now allows Drill Select personalizations to be copied to another user. Some settings have been removed from the Settings Editor because they are always overridden by values from the S3 Role: Allow bookmarks, Allow personalization, Allow user script, and Compact transaction. It is now possible to set the Role list value to zero. Finally, to use application wide values for users of the default (or any other) role, it would be necessary to use the Role Manager to specify the default values and set them to zero. A new user setting on the Export tab allows users to have conditional style hyperlinks rendered as a link in Excel and Outlook messages when exporting lists either from List Driven forms or the Info Browser. A new context menu item on the lists in List Driven forms, Drill and Select, and the Info Browser provides the ability to copy one or more selected lines as comma delimited text to the Windows clipboard. A new role base setting, Disable Table Cache, is now provided to eliminate lookups of table names when not needed. If Infor Ming.le is configured, table names are required.
Related documentation	Infor Smart Office Administration Guide Infor Smart Office Installation Guide

Lawson forms general enhancement


Description	These enhancements have been made to the standard forms: Added default context message when posting to Infor Ming.le. Added grey shading to form tab controls as per new SoHo standard. BlankZero is now a field attribute accessible for personalization on the Form Properties Data tab. It is now possible to export a single Data View from the Manage Data Views dialog or a single form view from the Manage Views dialog. Added user setting to allow use of fixed width font in exported Word documents. A user setting allows Related forms and F8 transfers to always open in a new window. A data field attribute in Form Properties, ‘Sync data with’ allows the value of one field to always be set to the value of another field.

List-driven form enhancements


Description	These enhancements have been made to the list-driven forms: List processing settings can now list only those forms desired to be rendered as a list than specifying the forms to be excluded. Audit and details forms, accessible only from standard forms, will always be rendered as a list regardless of role or user list settings. A toolbox panel for shortcuts, similar to the feature on standard forms, is now available for list-driven forms. The Criteria personalizations are now editable. Added ability to export a single data view from the Manager Views dialog. The custom sort feature is part of Personalizations and is saved with the Data View. Filter fields now accept the range notation (->) to allow filtering on a range of values.

Scripting enhancements


Description	These scripting enhancements have been made to Lawson applications: Script tool now includes code completion and F1 context-sensitive help features for Lawson-specific classes Support for custom editable combo boxes and ability to set data value and display value for custom combo box items Added Open and Delete buttons to the View Published Script dialog Added Share menu to the Object Browser New IForm method to rename a tab page: RenameTabPage Added a ControlsUtil scripting method to add a tab page to a detail tab: AddDetailTabPage Added several coding examples to the Object Browser and some new date routines in ScriptUtil A new IForm scripting event has been implemented: AfterRulesCall Added a scripting method to the ScriptUtil class to build a Data service API call Added an IForm scripting method to clear all custom element values, ClearCustomInputValues Added an IForm scripting method, ClearCrtioResponse, to clear CRTIO data after a transaction A new ScriptUtil method, GetUserAttributeList, is provided to retrieve those user Profile attributes with multiple values, such as the security roles assigned An interface, IErrorParser, is available to check scripted server call responses for errors.

Changes to Jobs and Reports


Description	These enhancements have been made to Jobs and Reports: The SubmitJob task query string now accepts an optional parameter: jobQueue Print file links in a batch token’s toolbox will have an LSR option if Smart Reports are enabled. To improve performance on Job and Reports lists, filter values will now be treated as case sensitive and a new application setting to disable this behavior is available in the Settings Editor. Support added for paged requests of PDF and CSV print files Add settings to allow PDF files to be saved to a folder of user’s choosing.

Info Browser enhancements


Description	These enhancements were made to the Info Browser: The Filtering Data message now remains visible until filtering is complete. The Criteria settings are now editable. Added the ability to define Data Views Added a record count footer similar to List-driven forms The custom sort feature is part of Personalizations and is saved with the Data View. A ‘Show Total’ item has been added to column context menu Can now ‘target’ a form for launch other than the default for the table by defining parameters. Filter fields now accept the range notation (->) to allow filtering on a range of values.

Lawson Import/Export tool


Description	Beginning with ISO 10.2.1.0.54 (HF6), a new Lawson Administration tool is provided that allows administrators, or anyone granted access through their role, to export to a zip package the several personalization files that are stored on the Lawson application server. After exporting, the package can then be used to import the files to another server.
Related documentation	Infor Smart Office Administration Guide

LSF Administration tools

Description

Beginning with ISO 10.2.1.0.54 (HF6), several LSF administration tools are made available, which you can use to configure your LSF environment settings. The available tools depend on the version of the installed LSF.


LSF version	Available tools
10.0.8	Distribution Group Definition Distribution List Group Definition Job Queue Definition Job Queue Group Definition Language Definition Locale Definition Printer Definition Printer Group Definition
10.0.7	Distribution Group Definition Job Queue Definition Job Queue Group Definition Language Definition Locale Definition Printer Definition Printer Group Definition
10.0.6	Job Queue Definition Language Definition Locale Definition Printer Definition Printer Group Definition
9.0.1.14	Language Definition Printer Definition Printer Group Definition

Users with PortalAdmin access can access any of the tools that are available without any additional configuration. Navigator widget links are available under a new branch of Infor Lawson, LSF Administration Tools, for any user with access to one or more tools.

Support for passive SAML authentication


Description	Passive authentication requires users to authenticate through web browser or web browser control. Instead of sending credentials to the Smart Office server or the application servers, the user is redirected to an Identity Provider where the actual authentication is performed. Passive authentication is only supported in Lawson products. For passive authentication to work in Smart Office, these prerequisites must be fulfilled: LCM 10.x, minimum 10.1.3.x, must be used for installing Grid, SAML Session Provider, and Smart Office. Infor Smart Office server must be installed in Grid 11.1.13.0.33 or later. The Grid where Smart Office server is installed must be configured with SAML Session Provider 1.13.6 or later. The first Identity Provider must be ADFS and the version must be 2.0, 2.1, or 3.0. Note: Passive authentication cannot be configured using DSSO Session Provider.
Related documentation	Infor Smart Office Installation Guide