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Article Series on Design Studio, Part 6: A Case Study

By David Williams, Paradigm ERP.
A look at how one of Paradigm's clients, a major hospital chain in Miami, used Design Studio to add a Transfer action on PA52 – Individual Action when an internal applicant’s acceptance was keyed on PA45 – Requisition Offers.

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adnan512created the topic: Retrieving GUID from InforOS

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve GUID from InforOS.

2 weeks ago

John Henleyreplied to: RE: Self-Serve Customization and Modification of home page

Hi Upasana, ESS is hand-coded HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. There is no "home page" for all of ESS as it is installed as tasks within Lawson Portal. Some...

1 month ago

John Henleyreplied to: RE: Lawson ESS customization

Duplicate. See https://www.lawsonguru.co...cation-of-home-page/

1 month ago

Upasana Mehracreated the topic: Lawson ESS customization

I want to add new links and customize the ESS (self-serve). Also need to change few fonts and highlight some upcoming changes on the home page of self...

1 month ago

John Henleyreplied to: RE: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

No, I don't have an example of doing that.

1 month ago

leshow does security location works in HR11 Work Tab

1 month ago

    Brianreplied to: RE: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

    Would you happen to have an example? The users have created about 125 company groups...I would think you would have to evaluate the selected group, w...

    1 month ago

    John Henleyreplied to: RE: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

    Brian, you can potentially secure company group on GL95 using an element/element group, and then leverage Company Control and/or getDBField() function...

    1 month ago

    Briancreated the topic: Securing forms and programs that use Company Group

    Is there a way to write a rule, that looks up a company group and checks the companies attached to compare in value to COMPANY CONTROL?  Example...GL9...

    1 month ago

    Upasana Mehracreated the topic: Self-Serve Customization and Modification of home page

    Hi,

    I want to add new links and customize the ESS (self-serve). Also need to change few fonts and highlight some upcoming changes on the home page ...

    1 month ago

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    Although I didn’t attend Inforum 2014, this is the backdrop against which I watched the keynotes via streaming video and digested the executive/analyst briefings. “’Designing emotion into the product is now something you really have to think about explicitly and measure yourself against’, says Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, the maker of personal finance and […]

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    Back in 2011, Lawson responded to an Alleged Patent Infringement by replacing Requisition Self-Service (RSS) with Requisition Center (RQC). In the meantime, Lawson has been acquired by Infor, but the patent case still lingers. Here’s an update. Some of you might have received this notice from Infor, and are unsure how this might impact your […]

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