Lawson Portal Preferences menu

By default, Lawson Portal makes the ability to change user options and content available to all users. This menu lets users customize aspects of Lawson Portal. Administrators can make some changes to these menus and even remove them completely. The following sections provide a high-level overview of the content of these menus.

Note: This chapter assumes that you are using Role Manager to configure the specified attributes. Installations that do not use custom roles can configure some of these attributes through the configuration file (portalconfig.xml). For more information, see the section "The Lawson Portal Configuration File".

Content

The Content submenu lets users unsubscribe to bookmarks (or resubscribe to bookmarks they have access to) and change the layout of the workspace. The ability to customize Content is an on/off switch. Administrators can remove the Content option from users but they cannot pick and choose options to allow or deny. Instructions for users who want to make customizations on Content options is described in Help for Users and in the user guide Getting Started with Lawson Portal .

User Options

User Options is a group of functions that allows user to customize operation of the following items, many of which control how Lawson applications appear in a user's workspace.

  • Locale

  • Data Area

  • Value Separator

  • Toolbar Button Display

  • Default Report Type

  • Default Printer

  • Show Product Line in Page Header

  • Auto Select Required Fields

  • Display Field Help

  • Allow logging to console

  • Use Data Entry Field Advance

  • Use List View Presentation

  • Use List Style Presentation

  • Enable accessibility behaviors

  • Use client machine time zone for jobs and reports

Change Password

This setting enables changing of password of the current user.

Depending on how your Infor Lawson system is configured, this feature might not be available for updating your Lawson Portal password. If you need to change your password and are not sure how to do it, contact your system administrator.