Controlling Access to Individual User Options

User Options is a set of user-customizable features, most of which are related to the operation of applications and data retrieval.

The ability to make changes to all items on the User Options submenu is given to users by default. If you want to deny the ability to change some User Options, you can do so from Role Manager.

You can use items in the User Options menu in conjunction with roles. For example, suppose you have a group of power users who must be able to fetch large loads of data in their queries, but, for performance reasons, you generally prefer to limit fetch sizes. You can create a role for power users (poweruser.xml) that would allow them to change fetch size. For normal users, you could set a limit for fetch sizes in their role.xml file that they would not be able to change.

Disabling users' ability to change options and setting required values

An item is disabled when a checkmark appears in the "Disabled?" column for the item. When an item has been disabled, users (of the role from which it has disabled) will see the option on User Options but will not be able to change it.

If you must restrict all users (of a role) to a particular value for an option, supply the value and also select the "Disabled?" checkbox.

User Options controlled by the Options tab

The following table describes the options for which you can deny access or set required values.

Several options that appear on the User Options submenu cannot be disabled. These are: Navigation Bar on Startup, Open Navigation Menus at Startup, and Display Field Help. Users will always be able to make selections for these items (unless you have removed the User Options submenu altogether).


Option	Description
Locale	The language that Lawson Portal uses. (If your site is not multi-lingual, you might want to disable this option.) This attribute is stored in the GEN repository (another reason why you might want to disable users' ability to change it.
Productline	Default product line for the role. This attribute is stored in the Resource Management repository (the LDAP directory). Changes you or users make will be stored in the appropriate role file and will override the repository setting during the user's session.
Value Separator	Determines whether commas, tabs, or semicolons will be used to separate columns for data import. This attribute is stored in the Resource Management repository (LDAP directory). Changes you or users make will be stored in role.xml and will override the repository setting.
Toolbar Button Display	Sets whether the buttons on applications forms is shown as Text or Icon.
Default Report Type	Output format of Lawson system reports. Choices are Text, PDF and LSR. To ensure proper rendering of all data, only the LSR output format is enabled on the Arabic platform. To change the Report Type freely to PDF, Text format or LSR format, set the Report Type to NONE, then go to User Options to change from either format. See: Enabling Infor Lawson Smart Reports (Optional) in Lawson Administration: Jobs and Reports.
Default Printer	The default printer for the role. This attribute is stored in the GEN database. To prevent end-users from updating GEN, you might want to disable their ability to change printers.
Auto Select Required Fields	Lawson applications can be set so that required fields on forms are automatically selected.
Explorer Record Count Select Record Count	These options determine the number of records that will be displayed per page when a user performs a drill transaction (Explorer Record Count), or selects from a list (Select Record Count). By default, the options are 25, 50, 100, and 200. (You change the numbers that are available for selection.) For more information, see the section "Changing Data Retrieval Page Size Options (Drill Value). For performance reasons, you might need to set a required value for record counts. Displaying large lists takes more system resources.
Default search option	When this option is selected, Lawson application records will search using the Find or Filter options.
Show Product Line in Page Header	When this is selected, it displays the current product line after the tab title. This option is disabled by default.
Use List View Presentation	When this is selected, Lawson application records is displayed as a list of records. Users can apply search conditions to filter which records must be shown on the list. When the List View is enabled, three additional buttons appears on the toolbar: Show Form, Filter, and Clear Filter. When the List View is disabled, the number of records returned is 500, and the tokens to skip is empty. Note: If both List Style Presentation and List View Presentation are enabled at the same time, the List View Presentation will override the List Style Presentation
List View Record Count	Sets the number of records to be displayed on the list. The list displays up to the maximum number of records defined by the user or Lawson Administrator in the User Options. By default, the options are 250 and 500.
Use List Style Presentation	When this is selected, the Lawson application records is displayed in a list format when the user opens a form. This allows the user to select a record to work on or to perform a search. When this option is not selected, the user must enter a key field to select a record or perform a search.
List Style Record Count	Sets the number of records that will be displayed per page when a user selects to display a data query results list. By default the options are 25, 50, 100 and 200.
Enable accessibility behaviors	When this is selected, it enables various usability features that are designed for assistive technologies.
Use client machine time zone for jobs and reports	When enabled, Lawson Portal uses the time zone of the client machine when submitting jobs and displaying timestamps of jobs and reports in Print Manager and Job Scheduler.