Introduction

Read these sections carefully before you create any custom scripts.

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The Lawson Global Support Center cannot provide assistance with the JavaScript language or with forms or custom pages that have been modified using JavaScript.

Prerequisite Knowledge

Custom scripts that interface with the Lawson Design Studio are written in JavaScript. Anyone who plans to modify Lawson forms or other objects through scripting must know:

  • JavaScript

  • XML

  • Lawson Design Studio

A thorough knowledge of these are also important:

  • Lawson applications and database architecture

The Objects Viewer provided with the scripting environment provides information about Lawson objects and methods for JavaScript developers. See "Objects Viewer".

About this Chapter

JavaScript knowledge is required by anyone who chooses to add scripting to Lawson forms or custom pages. This document provides examples of some scripts, but does not provide any information about the JavaScript language. JavaScript knowledge is assumed.

Because knowledge of JavaScript is a prerequisite to use custom scripting, this chapter focuses on explanations of how to work with the Lawson environment and tools and provides some examples of how Lawson forms and custom pages have been enhanced through scripting. The examples provided are not intended to function as written at your site.

Decisions about how you implement JavaScript and about JavaScript itself are not covered in this document.