Landmark Administration Tools

A Landmark Environment includes several tools an administrator can use to set up, configure, and modify the environment, its user interfaces, and its applications.

Landmark administration functions are performed through forms and pages in the Landmark Administration Console which is accessible through the web user interface.

Landmark Administration Console

The Landmark Administration Console is a set of forms in the web user interface that allows an administrator to perform various tasks without having access to the file system or command line on the server. The tasks available include:

  • FTP setup for the Landmark Administration Console

  • Analytic Cube management

  • Security configuration, including editing and copying security classes

  • Management of personalizations and configurations

  • Async queue suspending and resuming

  • Database import and export, and database monitoring

  • Data replication setup and execution

  • Database translation and spelling dictionary management

  • Auditing setup

  • Work file import and export

Access to the Landmark Administration Console is controlled through security classes, so only those users with the appropriate role and security classes can have access to this tool.

For administrators to access and use the Landmark Administration Console, the administrator must install an FTP server, Landmark must be configured to recognize the FTP server, and roles with the appropriate security classes must be assigned to the users who need to use the Landmark Administration Console.

Note: The documentation describes the navigation in the Administration Console with the toggle for the Administration Console Menu Consolidation feature not set to enabled. If you set this to enabled, the menus and navigation for the Administration Console will be slightly different.

Job Console

The Job Console provides convenient access for administrators to several forms for managing their own batch jobs and those of other users.

Access to the Job Console is controlled by the AsyncJobAdministratorAccess_ST security class or its equivalent.

Infor Landmark Administrator (Mobile)

The Infor Landmark Administrator is a mobile application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices that provides an administrator with an alternative interface to monitor and manage Landmark security, process automation and async queue information.

To install the Infor Landmark Administrator, download it from application store for your device. Before you can log in to the Landmark environment with the Infor Landmark Administrator, you must be assigned a role that includes the MobileAdministrationWebappAccess_ST security class. When you start the Infor Landmark Administrator, you will be prompted for your Landmark user name and password, as well as the server name, the Landmark port, and the SSL setting (on or off).

The functionality available is the same as through the forms in the web user interface except that some minor features may not be included. For example, you can access actions to create an actor or add an actor to an existing role in the Infor Landmark Administrator, but in the web user interface you will also see menu items for such things as viewing the audit log, creating a report, exporting the record to CSV, and so on.

The Infor Landmark Administrator employs standard navigation techniques for mobile applications, such as tapping and scrolling gestures. In addition, you will find useful buttons in the upper left corner and sometimes the bottom for going back to the previous page or for going to other pages.

Configuration Console

The Configuration Console is a tool within the web user interface that allows users to make changes to the user interface without needing to make any changes to source code. There are two types of changes that can be made:

  • Personalization - changes that apply to the user who makes them

    These include changes to menus, pages, lists, and forms.

    Users access this through My Personalizations in the web user interface. Users can access My Personalizations only if they have a role with the PersonalizationAccess_ST security class. If user have access to the Configuration Console, they can also create personalization via Configuration Console > Personalization.

  • Configuration - changes that apply globally to all users.

    These include changes to the same things that can be personalized as well as mime types, web services, and security classes. You can also work with actors, roles, and identities just as if you had accessed them through the security applications.

    Users access this through Configuration Console > Configuration in the web user interface. Users can make global UI configuration changes only if they have a role with the ConfigurationAccess_ST security class..

Security Applications

Through the web user interface, you can access applications for administering security and users, including a Create User Wizard and forms.

Web User Interface

The Web User Interface (Web UI) is a web-based user interface for Landmark applications and administration. It relies on Javascript and HTML from LPL page specifications with Landmark tools, rather than being manually coded.

The Web User Interface (Web UI) executes through a J2EE-compliant application server. With an application server, multiple client requests are serviced through a single service (the application server) running instantiated Landmark code. This allows Landmark to run applications remotely through the web.

Smart Help

For information about Landmark applications, you can click the Smart Help button to get documentation related to the specific form or screen you are viewing, and you can access the complete documentation set for the application.