Lawson User Interfaces: Important Concepts and Terminology
The following table provides a brief introduction to the concepts and terminology related to user interfaces that are presented in this chapter.
| Concept / term | What it means |
|---|---|
| bookmark | Quick-navigation links that appear in users's Lawson Portal. They are delivered with Lawson Portal or created by users and Lawson Portal customer administrators. |
| client-side rendering | See "rendering data" in this table. |
| HTTP | Industry-standard protocol that Lawson Portal uses to communicate with the Lawson Server. |
| Lawson Portal | The user interface for most Lawson users, in particular end-users. |
| Lawson Interface Desktop (LID) | A desktop client used to run Lawson administrative utilities and to gain command line access. |
| Infor Smart Office (LSO) | This term refers to a Windows-based user interface that can be used instead of or in addition to Lawson Portal. |
| LOGAN | The Lawson database in which bookmark data used by Lawson Portal is stored. |
| Lawson Portal objects |
Software objects, some delivered by the ECMAScript vendor and some developed by Lawson, define Lawson Portal operation. |
| rendering data |
The term used to describe the process of transforming data in order to make it visible to a user in the browser. Rendering can take place either on the client or on the server. Execution Cycles: How Lawson Portal Renders Data to the User |
| Scripting languages: ECMAScript, JavaScript, Jscript | Lawson Portal is written in a browser-specific version of the scripting language, ECMAScript. ECMAScript |
| XML, XSLT, HTML |
Lawson Portal communicates with other Lawson components via XML. XML does not have output capabilities so output to the browser is in HTML. XSLT is used to render the XML to HTML. |