Introduction
The main goal of extensibility is to develop the last-mile functionality for your organization without changing the core standard software components. You use only the public interfaces of the standard application.
In this way, you can develop the extensions separate from the standard components. This leads to a situation that upgrading the standard software does not result in additional costs for upgrading customizations. Extensions “survive” the upgrades.
This table shows the types of extensibility in Infor LN:
|
Type |
Features |
Tool |
|---|---|---|
|
Personalize |
Hide/unhide fields, add customer-defined fields, conditional coloring, personalize menus and forms, suppress dialog boxes / messages, set defaults |
LN standard, through User Interface. |
|
Tailor |
Add fields and logic to existing forms / BODs / web services;
add field hooks and commands to existing tables and forms; add secondary table
to existing forms; add customer defined fields to existing IR push reports.
Note: Not all features are available in
Infor LN
10.5.1.
|
LN Extension Modeler |
|
Extend |
Create new tables, domains, labels, screens, sessions, modules, libraries, messages, etc. |
LN Studio |
|
Integrate |
Create new BODs and web services, and call SOAP web services from extensions |
LN Studio |