Disabling (or Enabling) the Updates Prompt

If changes have been made to a user's layout since the last login that have not been saved to the user's XML file, Lawson Portal (by default) prompts the user to accept or cancel the changes the next time the user logs in. (The user must click OK to accept the changes. Cancel leaves the layout unchanged.) This applies to changes that have been made by users themselves or by administrators. If an administrator makes a change that affects a user's layout, a user could reject the administrator's changes, but the prompt would continue to display each time the user logged into Lawson Portal until the changes were accepted.

If you plan to make frequent changes to users' layouts, it is a good idea to disable the prompt. You do this by making an edit to the portalconfig.xml file. The edit is not difficult but should be performed by a system administrator who is familiar with XML.

To disable (or enable) the updates prompt in portalconfig.xml

  1. Open the portalconfig.xml file for editing. This file is located on the web server in:

    /DocumentRoot/lawson/MyLawsonPortal/portalconfig.xml

  2. To disable the updates prompt, change the value of the updates_prompt attribute in the <SETTING id> node to "0" as shown in the example. (The <SETTING id> nodes are between the <SETTINGS> </SETTINGS> tags near the top of the portalconfig.xml file.)

    Example:

    <SETTING id="updates_prompt" value="0"/>

  3. If you are required to enable the updates prompt, perform step 2, but change the updates_prompt value to "1" instead of "0".