The Infor Lawson Form Transaction activity node

The Infor Lawson Form Transaction activity node is used to simplify the task of sending transactions to Infor Lawson applications, which typically require one header transaction and one or more detail transactions. The activity node combines the functionality of an Infor Lawson Transaction node with a For Each node. Efficiency is gained by queuing up the detail transactions and only sending them once a full page of detail transactions are accumulated. Separate Infor Lawson Transaction nodes (one for the header and another for the detail) are no longer needed, which further simplifies the process.

The Infor Lawson Form Transaction follows these behavior:

• When the Form Transaction "start" node executes for the very first iteration, the header transaction string is sent to the Infor Lawson application form to create the header record.

• When the Form Transaction "end" node executes for each iteration, the detail transaction string is saved until a full page of transactions have been accumulated – at which point the transaction string for the full page is generated and sent. When the iteration loop finishes, any accumulated transactions (which are not enough to create a full page) are sent as a final transaction.

Using an Infor Lawson Form Transaction node involves performing these general steps:

• Configuring the Form Transaction "start" node

• Adding activity nodes that need to be executed within each iteration

• Configuring the Form Transaction "end" node