Configurable application objects and settings

In the Configuration Console, you can configure a variety of application objects as well as some application settings. The application objects that you can configure in the Configuration Console include many of the objects that appear in the application user interface. The type and extent of the changes you can make to each of these objects and settings vary, as described below:

Data Area

A data area is the highest level within the application. All other components of the application belong to the data area. For a data area, you can configure whether data translation is enabled, enable and disable MIME types and time zones, add business subjects for action requests, and add and manage user-defined phrases for the user interface.

Menus

Menus are a group of links or icons for related forms or submenus. They help organize the many forms, lists, pages, and submenus in the application UI, so that users can more easily navigate to related application objects.

Pages

Pages are composite objects that combine lists into a single viewable object for the user. Objects are placed on the page in panes using different layout formats and one or more tabs.

Web applications

Web applications (webapps) are the applications that make up you Infor Landmark Technology application. Web applications are role based and a user may have access to one to many web applications. Web applications use the Landmark web UI.

Business Classes

Business classes contain the basic definitions for what data is in an application, how it is organized, and how it is processed. A business class is a table definition to store and persist data and it also defines actions, states, and security. You can tailor delivered business classes or create your own business logic by creating a business class and user interfaces for it.

This table shows the components and features of business classes that display in the user interface and can be configured.


Lists	Lists display the records (or sometimes a subset of those records) from the database table associated with the business class.
Forms	Forms enable you to view, add, modify, and delete data associated with a business class. Modifying a form configuration can include changes to the layout, fields, called out actions (actions listed on the toolbar), and restricted actions.
Fields, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Conditions	You can modify or add many of the types of the individual components that appear in lists and forms, including various types of fields (user fields, compute fields, derived fields), buttons, check boxes (for boolean fields), and conditions that control various aspects of a field's behavior.
Actions	Actions within a business class can require users to supply an effective date, action reason, or action comment when the user tries to perform the action. You can change these action requirement settings. You can also business logic by adding entrance or exit rules or define your own actions that extends application-delivered logic and create forms for the action.
Action Requests	An action request configuration enables you to create an action and link that to a process service definition. This enables a user to trigger a much more complicated chain of events than a simple update or create. For example, an action request can result in an action being routed to several users before it is complete. For more information about how to create customized processes to be used in action request configurations, see Infor Process Automation Administration Guide and Infor Process Designer Help .
Relations	If a business class relation isn't already defined, you can add a relation from one business class to another. Once you have defined relations, you can add them to lists and forms.