Interfacing Customer Attributes

You can upload attributes and values from a non-Lawson application to customers in Accounts Receivable. Use this procedure to import customer information from an external source to the Accounts Receivable application. For additional help, Accounts Receivable conversion file layouts is available in KB2218730 in Infor Customer Portal and you can access the Enterprise Financial Management Conversion Guide in docs.infor.com.

To interface customer attributes

  1. Prepare a comma-separated value (CSV) file containing the customer attribute information you want to interface. The file fields must match the order and data type of the fields in the Customer Attribute Load ARCUSTMXLD (for Unix/Windows) or DBARAAL (for IBMi) file. This file layout is available in KB2218730 in Infor Customer Portal.
  2. Transfer the CSV file to the server where your environment resides.
  3. Use the Import command to load the customer data from the CSV file into the Customer Attribute Load file. For instructions on using the Import command, see Lawson Administration: Server Setup and Maintenance.
  4. To review or check for errors, run Customer Attribute Load (AR515) in non-update mode.
  5. Update the customers using Customer Attribute Load (AR515).