Setting General User Options

The language that Lawson Portal uses. Default is U.S. English.

When you change Locale, you must do a Refresh for the change to take effect.

This option is not available to privileged online-only users.

A defined storage place within a Lawson product line.

A product line can have one or more data areas. Multiple data areas allow you to separate access to different sets of data within the product line. If you have more than one and are not sure which product line to select, consult your system administrator.

When make changes to the Data Area, you must do a Refresh for the change to take effect.

Select the default report format for Lawson system reports. Choices are Text, PDF, and LSR.

To ensure correct rendering of all data, only the LSR output format is enabled on the Arabic platform.

See: Enabling Infor Lawson Smart Reports (Optional) in Lawson Administration: Jobs and Reports.

The default printer for Lawson system reports, that is, the location the system will use if you do not select a location when you run the report.

The printer names and locations available to select from were created by your system administrator. The selected printer name is shown on the right of the drop-down list.

This option is not available to privileged online-only users.

You can use this feature to recover tabs from your last session, depending on the option you select:

• Ask: This is the default option. Every time Lawson loads or refreshes, a dialog box will display a list of the tabs that can be recovered. You will be asked if you want to recover these tabs or start fresh for that new session.

• Always: Select this option if you want your last session's tabs to be recovered and opened every time Lawson is loaded or refreshed.

• Never: Select this option if you want Lawson to start fresh every time without asking or showing which tabs will be recovered.

Use Data Entry Field Advance

This option automatically moves a user’s cursor to the next field on a form. The user does not have to use the mouse or Tab key.

If there are no local changes made to a form, the cursor moves to the next field physically. But form customizations made with Design Studio could affect this behavior.

For example, if fields have been reordered on a form, Lawson Portal follows the original order of fields, before customizations were made, when moving to the next field.

Lawson Portal applies the following logic when determining when to advance the user’s cursor to the next field:

• Text fields and non-decimal numeric fields: When the maximum number of characters has been reached. (This also applies to non-decimal, signed fields.)

• Signed fields: For decimal signed fields, when the maximum number of decimal places has been entered. In locales where a plus/minus symbol appears at the end of a number, the user is moved off the field when the plus or minus symbol is typed.

Advance on 6-digit date entry

Selecting this option indicates that a date field entry is complete when only six digits are typed.

For example, typing "062706" is the same as "06/27/2006". If Advance on 6-Digit Date is not selected, eight digits and/or full date formatting with separators is required.

Advance on 6-Digit Date can only be used if Use Data Entry Field Advance is enabled.

When enabled, this option allows use of Frequent and Recent Form features on the Lawson Portal homepage and navigation menu.

Clicking the Clear data button clears Frequent and Recent Form data.

When an application is opened, one of three modes can be used: Form View, List View, or List Mode.

The modes can be toggled at any time while viewing the application from the Data View drop-down on the toolbar.

• Form View: The standard method of viewing data, in full field layout. The application will open without data, and you will be required to perform a key field search to bring up a record. Users whose jobs involve adding new records frequently might want to default to this view.

• List View: In this mode, you can display Lawson application records in a list format. In List View, you can apply search conditions to filter what records are displayed on the list. Use the Select column, double click a row, or use the Context menu on a record to perform an Inquire and display the form. Using the column chooser, you can specify which fields are displayed in the view. You can create custom views and save them by selecting “Save view as...” in the Custom Views menu.

• List Mode: This mode is an inquiry wizard that walks you through required values so you can locate the record you want to work with. After all the key fields have been selected, the record will be Inquired and displayed on the form.

  For more information, see Selecting values for key fields.

• Number of Records: The maximum number of records that can be shown when viewing an application form in List View.

• Maximum List View edits: The maximum number of records that can be edited in a single transaction in List View.

  This option is not available for users that do not have access to edit records in List View.

• Enter form names to exclude from List View processing: When form tokens are specified in this field, separated by a semi-colon, the user will not have access to the List View of the forms.

Number of Records: The maximum number of records that can be shown when viewing an application form in List Mode.

Enabling this option will cause forms to be shrunk down in an attempt to fit the entire form contents on screen without the need for scrolling on lower resolution monitors.